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s and, as with its predecessor, its lyrics have never been released. Some releases of ''Autumn Aurora'' have "Summoning the Rain" and "Glare of Autumn" combined as a single track. The album has been re-released on November 9, 2009, by

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, featuring a remastered sound and a new album artwork. ''Autumn Aurora'' was a strong critical success, and was chosen as the best album of the year by Chronicles of Chaos web-zine. Most releases of the album have the titles only in English, but the iTunes release uses both English and

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Track listing

Personnel

* Roman Saenko – guitars, bass * Thurios – vocals, keyboards * Amorth – keyboards

Guest musicians

* Yuriy Sinitsky – drums

References

External links

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