''Timeless Departure'' is the debut full-length studio album by the Swedish

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band Skyfire, released on 12 March 2001 by

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. Common themes on the album include

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, and

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Track listing

# "Intro" – 2:05 usic: Hanner/Edlund# "Fragments of Time" – 3:32 usic: Hanner/Reinholdz, Lyrics: Hanner/Björk# "The Universe Unveils" – 4:56 usic: Hanner/Edlund, Lyrics: Björk# "By God Forsaken" – 4:57 usic: Hanner/Edlund, Lyrics: Hanner# "Timeless Departure" – 6:49 usic: Edlund/Hanner, Lyrics: Björk# "Breed Through Me, Bleed for Me" – 5:10 usic: Hanner/Edlund, Lyrics: Hallin# "Dimensions Unseen" – 4:54 usic: Hanner/Edlund, Lyrics Björk/Wenngren# "Skyfire" – 3:52 usic: Edlund/Hanner, Lyrics: Björk# "From Here to Death" – 5:32 usic: Edlund/Hanner, Lyrics Björk The positions of track 4 "By God Forsaken" and track 8 "Skyfire" were juxtaposed on the original Hammerheart CD release's back insert due to a printing error. The 2013 digital re-release by Pivotal Rockordings corrected the mislabeled track listing.

Credits

Band members

* Martin Hanner −

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, keyboards * Andreas Edlund −

, keyboards * Jonas Sjögren −

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* Henrik Wenngren − death vocals * Tobias Björk −

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Production and other

* Produced, engineered and mixed by

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and Skyfire. * Mastered at Franky's Recording Kitchen by Berthus Westerhuys.

References

Skyfire (band) albums 2001 debut albums Hammerheart Records albums {{2000s-death-metal-album-stub