Clouds (Tiamat album)

Clouds
Studio album by Tiamat
Released	December 2, 1992
Genre	Death metal, gothic metal
Length	39:29
Label	Century Media
Producer	Waldemar Sorychta
Tiamat chronology
The Astral Sleep (1991) Clouds (1992) Wildhoney (1994)

Clouds is the third full-length album by Tiamat, issued in 1992 through Century Media Records. It expands upon the death metal sound of previous albums with more melodic, gothic rock-inspired elements, including occasional clean singing, while retaining extremely heavy instrumentation and Johan Edlund's death growl.

Track listing

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AllMusic

All lyrics by Johan Edlund except "A Caress of Stars" (Edlund, Hannah Stjarnvind).

1. "In a Dream" – 5:12 (Edlund, Ekstrand, Petersson)
2. "Clouds" – 3:40 (Petersson, Ekstrand, Edlund)
3. "Smell of Incense" – 4:29 (Edlund, Petersson)
4. "A Caress of Stars" – 5:26 (Petersson, Edlund)
5. "The Sleeping Beauty" – 4:10 (Hagel, Edlund)
6. "Forever Burning Flames" – 4:22 (Ekstrand, Peterson)
7. "The Scapegoat" – 4:56 (Ekstrand, Petersson, Edlund)
8. "Undressed" – 7:10 (Edlund, Petersson)

Personnel

• Johan Edlund - vocal, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar
• Thomas Petersson - guitars, acoustic guitar
• Johnny Hagel - bass
• Kenneth Roos - keyboards
• Niklas Ekstrand - drums
• Jonas Malmsten – additional keyboards

Covers

German gothic metal band The Vision Bleak covered "The Sleeping Beauty" on their 2016 EP The Kindred of the Sunset.