Dark Assault

Dark Assault
Studio album by Iron Savior
Released	6 March 2001
Recorded	July – October 2000 at Powerhouse Studio and Hansen Studio, Hamburg, Germany
Genre	Power metal, heavy metal
Length	61:20
Label	Noise
Producer	Piet Sielck, Kai Hansen, Iron Savior
Iron Savior chronology
Interlude (1999) Dark Assault (2001) Condition Red (2002)

Dark Assault is the third studio album by the German power metal band Iron Savior. It continues the science fiction story that the band introduced on their debut album Iron Savior and continued on Unification and the Interlude EP. It is the first album to feature guitarist Joachim Küstner and the last to feature Kai Hansen before committing himself back to his band Gamma Ray.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Never Say Die"	Piet Sielck	Sielck	5:32
2.	"Seek and Destroy"	Sielck	Sielck	3:45
3.	"Solar Wings"	Sielck, Kai Hansen	Sielck, Hansen	4:33
4.	"I've Been to Hell"	Sielck	Sielck, Jan-Sören Eckert	4:04
5.	"Dragons Rising"	Sielck	Sielck	6:24
6.	"Predators"	Sielck	Sielck	3:54
7.	"Made of Metal"	Sielck	Sielck	6:57
8.	"Firing the Guns"	Sielck	Sielck, Eckert	4:42
9.	"Eye of the World"	Sielck	Sielck	5:18
10.	"Back into the Light"	Sielck	Sielck	5:51
11.	"After the War"	Sielck, Eckert	Sielck, Eckert	6:18
12.	"Delivering the Goods" (Judas Priest cover)	Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, K.K. Downing	Tipton, Halford, Downing	3:59

Japanese edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
13.	"Headhunter" (Krokus cover)	Butch Stone, Chris von Rohr, Fernando von Arb, Marc Storace	Stone, von Rohr, von Arb, Storace	4:18
14.	"The Hellion / Electric Eye" (Judas Priest cover)	Tipton, Halford, Downing	Tipton, Halford, Downing	4:18

Personnel

Iron Savior

• Piet Sielck – lead vocals, guitar
• Kai Hansen – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Solar Wings"
• Joachim "Piesel" Küstner – guitar, backing vocals
• Andreas Kück – keyboards, backing vocals
• Jan-Sören Eckert – bass, backing vocals, additional lead vocals on "After the War"
• Thomas Nack – drums and percussion

Production

• Piet Sielck – producer, engineer, mixing
• Kai Hansen – additional production on "Solar Wings", vocal production on "Made of Metal" and "Back into the Light"
• Iron Savior – additional production
• Holger Drees – artwork
• Maren Kumpe – booklet design
• Jo Kirchherr – photography