The Winter Wake
The Winter Wake is the third studio album by Italian folk metal band Elvenking. It features the return of original vocalist Damnagoras and the departure of guitarist Jarpen. The lyrical content of the album centers around fantasy, folklore, fairy tales, and feeling alone and being an outsider or an outcast as well as hints at the music industry with songs such as the Skyclad cover "Penny Dreadful".
Personnel
- Damnagoras – vocals, additional lead guitars on "Neverending Nights"
- Aydan – guitars, backing vocals
- Gorlan – bass guitar
- Elyghen – violin, keyboards
- Zender – drums
- Marcel Schirmer – vocals on "The Winter Wake"
- Nino Laurenne – 2nd solo on "Trows Kind"
- Jarpen – 2nd solo on "The Winter Wake"
- Pauline Tacey – soprano vocals on "March of Fools" and "Disillusion's Reel"
- Laura De Luca – vocals on "On the Morning Dew"
- Isabella "Whisperwind" Tuni – fairy voice on "Trows Kind"
- Umberto Corazza – flutes
- Pauline Tacey, Laura De Luca, Giada Etro, Isabella Tuni, Claudio Coassin, Damnagoras, Aydan, Elyghen
- Arranged by Elyghen
- Eleonora Steffan – violin
- Attilio Zardini – violin
- Elyghen – viola
- Marco Balbinot – cello