Amberian Dawn - Circus Black (2012)

Amberian Dawn - Circus Black (2012)

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1. "Circus Black"   3:48

2. "Cold Kiss"   3:30

3. "Crimson Flower"   4:23

4. "Charnel's Ball"   4:46

5. "Fight"   3:19

6. "Letter"   4:28

7. "I Share with You This Dream"   3:36

8. "Rivalry Between Good and Evil"   3:59

9. "Guardian"   5:09

10. "Lily of the Moon"   4:07

11. "Guardian (Instrumental)" (Japan bonus track)   4:01

Amberian Dawn Band Members / Musicians

Heidi Parviainen - vocals

Tuomas Seppälä - keyboards, guitar, producer, engineer

Kasperi Heikkinen - guitar

Kimmo Korhonen - guitar

Jukka Koskinen - bass

Heikki Saari - drums and percussion

Timo Kotipelto - vocals on "Cold Kiss"

Jens Johansson - keyboard solo on "Crimson Flower"

Nils Nordling - vocals on "I Share With You This Dream"

Tuomas Nieminen - vocals on "I Share With You This Dream"

Armi Pävinen - backing vocals on "Cold Kiss"

Mikko P. Mustonen - orchestral arrangements, choir arrangements, programming, conductor

Lari Takala - engineer

Tero-Pekka Virtanen - mixing

Mika Jussila - mastering

Circus Black is the 4th full-length album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn.

Stratovarius vocalist Timo Kotipelto provides lead vocals on "Cold Kiss" and keyboardist Jens Johansson (Stratovarius, Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force) contributed a keyboard solo on "Crimson Flower."

The band commented on the album: "Circus Black is the most impressive AD album so far. Musically it represents the most sophisticated and most symphonic edge of AD-music. There’s more diversity on this album than never before. This is the first time we used a real choir and we gathered some really excellent professional opera singers together to be able to achieve the best sounding choir possible. This choir was conducted by Mikko P. Mustonen from Pathos Music. He also arranged the choir and orchestral parts. We managed once again to get some world-class guests on this album. So, the production is our biggest so far and the final polish on this album was given by Teropekka Virtanen (mixing engineer) and Mika Jussila (mastering engineer) at legendary Finnvox Studios in Finland." This album also marks the final album of the band to feature lead vocalist Heidi Parviainen as well as lead guitarist Kasperi Heikkinen and drummer Heikki Saari.