- death metal, melodic death metal, metal
- 38 min
- 11 tracks
- TOY’S FACTORY
Black Earth is the debut studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. Released on 2 October 1996 through Wrong Again, The album was reissued on 24 April 2007 through Regain Records, featuring "Losing Faith", two Iron Maiden covers and the video for "Bury Me an Angel". The album was reissued again on 28 April 2023 in various formats, along with a visualiser for “Dark Insanity”.
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Character
Grave, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10
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Tracks
- 1Bury Me an Angel3:41
- 2Dark Insanity3:16
- 3Eureka4:44
- 4Idolatress4:56
- 5Cosmic Retribution4:00
- 6Demoniality1:19
- 7Transmigration Macabre4:11
- 8Time Capsule1:09
- 9Fields of Desolation5:31
- 10Losing Faith3:15
- 11The Ides of March1:47
11 tracks, 38 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Arch Enemy
- Label
- TOY’S FACTORY
- Released
- October 2, 1996
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- JP
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