Stronghold

Additional information:

- This album is the first by Summoning to feature audio-clips, the clips used are from the movies Braveheart and Legend.

- The album's cover was adapted from The Bard, an 1817 painting by John Martin.

- Stronghold marks the first time in which not all lyrics were derived from J. R. R. Tolkien.


Lyrical references:

- Rhûn is Elvish word for "east" and was the name used for all lands lying east of Middle-Earth.

- The lyrics of Long Lost to Where No Pathway Goes are taken from The Lays of Beleriand, The Lay of the Children of Húrin, and a Tolkien poem about St. Brendan's death, called Imram.

- The lyrics of The Glory Disappears are taken from William Wordsworth's poems Loud Is the Vale and Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree.

- Like Some Snow-White Marble Eyes is about when Húrin is held captive by Morgoth and the lyrics are derived from a poem by Robert Frost called Stars.

- The lyrics of Where Hope and Daylight Dies are taken from the Tolkien poem, I Sit Upon the Stones Alone.

- The lyrics of The Rotting Horse on the Deadly Ground are taken from The Song of Eriol from The Book of Lost Tales.

- The Shadow Lies Frozen on the Hills is lyrically based on two poems found in The Fellowship of the Ring, in the chapters "A Conspiracy Unmasked" and "Many Meetings".

- The lyrics of The Loud Music of the Sky was taken from Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery, Chapter 12th, and from Dora Sigerson Shorter's poem The Wind on the Hills.

- The lyrics of A Distant Flame Before the Sun are taken from the "I Sit Beside the Fire and Think" and "Song of Eärendil" which was written & performed by Bilbo in Rivendell ("The Ring Goes South" in The Fellowship of the Ring).

Recording information:

Produced and mixed at Nachtschatten Studio.

Identifiers:

Barcode: 4 001617 267226
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, 5): GZ K61502 NPR 060
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, 4): GZ K32826 NPR 060
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LD01
Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 5J12
Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 5J11
Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 5J24
Mould SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI 5J01
Mould SID Code (Variant 5): IFPI 5J10