''Tiurida'' (meaning "Glory") is the fifth studio album by the German

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band

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, released in January 2011 via

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. It was recorded with the same session musicians as the previous two Falkenbach records, Ok nefna tysvar Ty (2003) and Heralding - The Fireblade (2005). It was released as a

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, deluxe limited edition (containing the digipack plus a Falkenbach logo pendant),

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(in three variants - black, golden and white vinyl - and with different cover artwork) and download.

Track listing

''"Asaland" is a re-recording (and re-writing, essentially) of a song originally from the "Laeknishendr" demo released in 1995. The track is present on the digipack, vinyl and deluxe editions''.

Personnel

* Vratyas Vakyas - clean vocals,

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s, keyboards

Additional personnel

*Hagalaz -

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s, keyboards *Tyrann - screams *Alboin -

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*Boltthorn -

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*Patrick Damiani - engineering *Florian - layout *

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Notes

– Official Falkenbach forum, announcement

– Napalm Records artist page

— Encyclopaedia Metallum entry 2011 albums Falkenbach albums Napalm Records albums {{2010s-metal-album-stub