Battle Beast (album)

Battle Beast
Battle Beast
	Cover art by Claudio Bergamin
Studio album by Battle Beast
Released	17 May 2013
Recorded	2012, JKB Studios, Helsinki, Finland
Genre	Heavy metal, power metal
Length	48:13 (without the bonus track) 51:58 (with the bonus track)
Label	WEA Finland; Nuclear Blast
Producer	Anton Kabanen, Janne Björkroth
Battle Beast chronology

Battle Beast is the eponymous second full-length album recorded by the heavy metal band Battle Beast, released in May 2013.^[1] The album peaked at No. 5 in the Finnish Albums Chart.^[2]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Anton Kabanen.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Let It Roar"	3:40
2.	"Out of Control"	3:47
3.	"Out on the Streets"	2:55
4.	"Neuromancer"	4:04
5.	"Raven"	2:52
6.	"Into the Heart of Danger"	5:26
7.	"Machine Revolution"	4:05
8.	"Golden Age"	1:57
9.	"Kingdom"	5:00
10.	"Over the Top"	2:37
11.	"Fight, Kill, Die"	2:44
12.	"Black Ninja"	3:54
13.	"Rain Man"	5:12
14.	"Shutdown (German Bonus Track)"	3:45
Total length:		51:58

Literary references[]

As with Steel, several songs on Battle Beast reference the dark fantasy manga Berserk by Kentaro Miura: "Out of Control", "Golden Age", "Kingdom", and "Fight, Kill, Die". "Neuromancer", meanwhile, is about the William Gibson cyberpunk novel of same name.^[3]

Personnel[]

Battle Beast[]

Noora Louhimo - lead vocals
Anton Kabanen - lead guitar, backing vocals, production, engineering, mixing
Juuso Soinio - rhythm guitar
Eero Sipilä - bass, backing vocals
Pyry Vikki - drums
Janne Björkroth - keyboards, orchestration, backing vocals, co-production, engineering, mixing

Additional musicians[]

Joonas Kaikko - percussion

Production[]

Lucas Lönnross - engineer
Mika Jussila - mastering at Finnvox Studios

References[]

^ "Battle Beast - Battle Beast - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". metal-archives.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
^ "Battle Beast - Battle Beast (album)". Finnishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
^ "INTERVIEW: Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast)". Metal Divas. WordPress.com. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2017.

[metal-archives-1] "Battle Beast - Battle Beast - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". metal-archives.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.

[2] "Battle Beast - Battle Beast (album)". Finnishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.

[3] "INTERVIEW: Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast)". Metal Divas. WordPress.com. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2017.

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