The Blade (Sol Invictus album) explained

The Blade
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Sol Invictus
Cover:	The Blade (album).jpg
Released:	1997
Prev Title:	In the Rain
Prev Year:	1995
Next Title:	In Europa
Next Year:	1998

The Blade is the ninth studio album by the English band Sol Invictus, released in 1997. It continues the classical instrumentation established on the band's preceding album, In the Rain (1995), but adds more martial drums and electric guitar. The frontman Tony Wakeford brought in two classically trained musicians, Eric Roger on trumpet and cornet and Matt Howden on violin, with whom he had worked in his other band L'Orchestre Noir.^[1]

Reception

Cesare Buttaboni and Marco De Baptistis of said the first half of the album is interesting and the second is "gorgeous", highlighting the tracks "The House Above the World", "Laws and Crowns" and "See How We Fall".^[2]

Track listing

1. "The Blade"
2. "In Heaven"
3. "Time Flies"
4. "The House Above the World"
5. "Laws And Crown"
6. "Once Upon a Time"
7. "See How We Fall"
8. "Gealdor"
9. "From the Wreckage"
10. "Nothing Here"
11. "Remember and Forget"
12. "The Blade"

External links

• FluxEuropa review
• Filosofem review

Notes and References

1. Book: Diesel . Andreas . Gerten . Dieter . 2007 . Looking for Europe: Neofolk und Hintergründe . German . Zeltingen-Rachtig . Index Verlag . 112–113 . 978-393687802-8 .
2. Web site: Buttaboni . Cesare . De Baptistis . Marco . Sol Invictus. Il sole invitto sulle rovine . Sol Invictus: the unconquered sun among the ruins . . it . 4 July 2021 .