Liberty or Death (album)

Liberty or Death is the 13th studio album by German heavy metal band Grave Digger. It was released on 15 January 2007 via Locomotive Records.

This article is about the Grave Digger album. For the video game, see Liberty or Death (disambiguation).

Liberty or Death
Studio album by
Grave Digger
Released15 January 2007[1]
RecordedAugust–October 2006 at Principal Studios, Germany
GenreHeavy metal, power metal
Length56:48
LabelLocomotive Music
ProducerChris Boltendahl, Manni Schmidt & Jörg Umbreit
Grave Digger chronology
The Last Supper
(2005)		 Liberty or Death
(2007)		 Ballads of a Hangman
(2009)

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Boltendahl/Becker/Schmidt and Katzenburg; all lyrics by Boltendahl.

  1. "Liberty or Death" - 6:33
  2. "Ocean of Blood" - 4:12
  3. "Highland Tears" - 6:15
  4. "The Terrible One" - 4:08
  5. "Until the Last King Died" - 5:46
  6. "March of the Innocent" - 5:56
  7. "Silent Revolution" - 6:24
  8. "Shadowland" - 6:26
  9. "Forecourt to Hell" - 5:02
  10. "Massada" - 5:58

The digipak version includes the bonus track "Ship of Hope".

Lyrical themes
  • Vocalist Chris Boltendahl was inspired with this album by the book named "Liberty Or Death" by the Cretean writer Nikos Kazantzakis, whose title is the English translation of Eleftheria i thanatos. The book directly inspired the title song about the Greek revolution on Crete, with lyrical references to the Greek national anthem.
  • Two songs deal with Germany's treatment of the Jews in the Second World War and a further two more about more Ancient Jewish history. "Ocean of Blood" tells of Moses parting the Red Sea and "Massada" tells of the siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War. "March of the Innocent" is about the Holocaust and "Ship of Hope" tells of the "Voyage of the Damned" of the SS St. Louis. Boltendahl said that the number of songs on this subject was not intended, but that the stories were interesting on their own.
  • "Highland Tears" deals with freedom in Scotland. "Forecourt to Hell" deals with the gladiators in the Roman Empire age. "The Terrible One" is about Ivan the Terrible. "Until the Last King Died" is about the French Revolution, "Shadowland" about the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan in the USA and "Silent Revolution" deals with Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent struggle against the oppression of the Indian people.

Album line-up

References
  1. Blackie, Andrew (2 May 2007). "Grave Digger: Liberty or Death". PopMatters. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
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