''Chaotic Beauty'' is the third album by Finnish

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band

Eternal Tears of Sorrow Eternal Tears of Sorrow (commonly abbreviated to EToS) was a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in Pudasjärvi. Biography The band was formed in 1994 by Jarmo Puolakanaho, Altti Veteläinen and Olli-Pekka Törrö, after various project ...

. It was their first album without the original three founding members of the band (guitarist Olli-Pekka Törrö had left the band in early 1999) and the first EToS album with a five-member line-up. The guest vocalist on the album was

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, and Heli Luokkala on the Japanese bonus CD. The song "Black Tears" is a cover, originally written by

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for his band

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. This album continues the band's tradition to record albums with Ahti Kortelainen at Tico-Tico Studio in

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, Finland. However, this is the first EToS album that Mikko Karmila mixed; before ''Chaotic Beauty'', all albums were also mixed by Ahti Kortelainen.

Track listing

Japanese edition bonus tracks #

Flight of Icarus (

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cover) – 4:14 #

Coronach – 4:54 #

Nightwind's Lullaby – 5:29 #

Burning Flames' Embrace – 4:08

Personnel

Band members

Altti Veteläinen Eternal Tears of Sorrow (commonly abbreviated to EToS) was a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in Pudasjärvi. Biography The band was formed in 1994 by Jarmo Puolakanaho, Altti Veteläinen and Olli-Pekka Törrö, after various project ...

− vocals, bass * Jarmo Puolakanaho − guitar * Antti-Matti Talala − lead guitar * Pasi Hiltula − keyboards * Petri Sankala − drums

Guest appearances

− female vocals (on tracks 5 and 9), whispering (on track 3) * Heli Luokkala − female vocals (on track 12, Japanese bonus CD)

References

2000 albums Eternal Tears of Sorrow albums {{2000s-death-metal-album-stub