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. It was released in October 1998 via Mellotronen. Recording sessions took place at Studio Largen in Sweden. Production was handled by the quartet themselves. Composed of eight tracks, the album consists of re-makes of instrumentals taken from the soundtracks of obscure, mostly European exploitation movies with the exception of two original compositions.

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and reviewers noted the band's focus on the

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, which was popular among progressive rock bands of the 60s and 70s. In 2004, American

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sampled the band's version of "Apoteosi del Mistero" for his song "The Dispensation of Life and Death" off of ''

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''.

Track listing

;Notes *Track 1 is a cover of the song of the same name composed by

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''. *Track 3 is a cover of the song of the same name composed by Fabio Frizzi for Lucio Fulci's 1981 supernatural horror film '' The Beyond''. *Track 4 is a cover of the song of the same name composed by

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film '' Rosemary's Baby''. *Track 5 is a cover of the song of the same name composed by

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's 1979 exploitation horror film ''Beyond the Darkness (film), Beyond the Darkness''. *Track 6 is a cover of the song of the same name composed by Riz Ortolani for Ruggero Deodato's 1980 cannibal film ''Cannibal Holocaust''. *Track 7 is a cover of the song of the same name composed by Elmer Glaskow for Alan Vydra's 1983 sexploitation film ''Golden Girls: The Movie''.

Personnel

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* Nicklas Barker, Nicklas Berg — mellotron, Fender Rhodes electric piano, guitar, bass, theremin, Sampler (musical instrument), sampler, producer, mixing (track 6) * Reine Fiske — mellotron, Fender Rhodes electric piano, guitar, violin, producer * Stefan Dimle — mellotron, Moog synthesizer, bass, producer, mixing (track 6) * Peter Nordins — mellotron, drums, percussion, producer ;Additional *Yessica Lindkvist — voice (track 4) *Janne Hansson — waves effects (track 7), mixing (tracks: 4, 7, 8) *Roger Skogh — recording, mixing (tracks: 2, 3) *Simon Nordberg — mixing (tracks: 1, 5) *Claes Persson — mastering *David Östlund — design

References

External links

* 1998 albums Progressive rock albums by Swedish artists {{progressive-rock-album-stub