Songs of Love and Death (Beyond the Black album)

Songs of Love and Death is the debut studio album by the German symphonic metal band Beyond the Black. It was released on 13 February 2015 through Airforce1 Records. The album was rereleased on 7 June 2019 through Austrian record label Napalm Records.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"In the Shadows"	Hartmut Krech, Mark Nissen, Dave Roth	Krech, Nissen, Roth	4:53
2.	"Songs of Love and Death"	Krech, Nissen, Lukas Hainer	Hannes Braun	4:15
3.	"Unbroken"	Hainer	Krech, Nissen	4:26
4.	"When Angels Fall"	Krech, Nissen, Hainer, Braun	Jennifer Haben, Krech, Nissen, Braun	5:22
5.	"Pearl in a World of Dirt"	Nik Page, Kate Northrop	Krech, Nissen, Braun	6:25
6.	"Hallelujah"	Krech, Nissen, Roth	Braun, Krech, Nissen, Roth	5:22
7.	"Running to the Edge"	Hainer	Krech, Nissen	4:54
8.	"Numb"	Torsten Brötzmann, Ivo Morig, Charlie Mason	Brötzmann, Morig, Mason	4:24
9.	"Drowning in Darkness"	Hainer, Braun	Braun	4:11
10.	"Afraid of the Dark"	Brötzmann, Morig, Mason	Brötzmann, Morig, Mason	4:08
11.	"Fall into the Flames"	Arno Krabman, Ashley Hicklin, Haben	Krabman, Hicklin, Haben	3:41
12.	"Love Me Forever" (Motörhead cover)	Michael Richard Burston, Ian Fraser Kilmister, Philip Anthony Campbell, Philip John Taylor	Burston, Kilmister, Campbell, Taylor	3:27
Total length:				55:28

2017 Japanese Edition Bonus Tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"In the Shadows" (live)	5:15
Total length:		60:43

Jennifer Haben – lead vocals
Sascha Paeth – guitars except on track 7; guitar solo on track 7; bass except on track 7; drums on tracks 8, 10, 11, 12; shouts on track 10; keyboards on track 11
Ossi Schaller – guitar solo on tracks 1, 3, 4
Dirk Schlag – acoustic guitars on tracks 2, 5, 6
Arno Krabman, Bent Wolff – guitars on track 7
Peter Weihe – guitars on track 12
Mark Nissen – bass on track 7; all other instruments and programming, additional guitars, strings & backing vocals except on tracks 8, 11, 12
Hartmut Krech – all other instruments and programming, additional guitars, strings & backing vocals except on tracks 8, 11, 12
Ivo Moring – drums on track 10
Michael 'Miro' Rodenberg – keyboards on tracks 8, 10, 11, 12
Thorsten Brötzmann – keyboards on tracks 8, 10, 12
Michael Knauer – keyboards on track 12
Sandro Friedrich – flutes on tracks 1, 5, 6; bagpipes on track 1; shawn on track 5
Ingo Hampf – lute on track 5
Hannes Braun – lead vocals on track 5, backing vocals on track 3, shouts on track 4
Billy King – backing vocals on tracks 2-4, 6-10
Klaus Esch, Vibeke Andressen – backing vocals on track 6
Oliver Hartmann – backing vocals on track 11
Sander Gommans – backing vocals on track 6, shouts on track 6
Kevin Ratajczak – shouts on track 6, 9
Christopher Hummels – shouts on track 7

Hartmut Krech, Mark Nissen – producers, engineers and mixing on tracks 1-7 and 9
Hannes Braun – co-producer on tracks 3 and 6
Thorsten Brötzmann, Ivo Morig – producers on tracks 8, 10, 12
Sascha Paeth – producer on tracks 8, 10, 11, 12
Michael 'Miro' Rodenberg – mastering at GateStudio, Wolfsburg, Germany

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)	21
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)	12

v t e Beyond the Black
Jennifer Haben Stefan Herkenhoff Chris Hermsdörfer Tobi Lodes Jonas Roßner Kai Tschierschky Nils Lesser Christopher Hummels Tobias Derer Erwin Schmidt Michael Hauser
Studio albums	Songs of Love and Death (2015) Lost in Forever (2016)
Singles	"In the Shadows" (2015) "Lost in Forever" (2016) "Night Will Fade" (2017) "Forget My Name" (2017)
Associated acts	Saphir

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