Before the Bleeding Sun

{{refimprove|date=March 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox album  | name = Before the Bleeding Sun | type = studio | artist = Eternal Tears of Sorrow | cover = Before the Bleeding Sun.jpg | released = 21 April 2006 | recorded = May 2005 – January 2006 | genre = Melodic death metal, symphonic metal<ref>[https://www.metalexpressradio.com/2006/04/26/eternal-tears-of-sorrow-before-the-bleeding-sun/ ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW – Before The Bleeding Sun]</ref> | length = 43:08 | label = Spinefarm | prev_title = A Virgin and a Whore | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = Children of the Dark Waters | next_year = 2009 }}

'''''Before the Bleeding Sun''''' is the fifth studio album released by the Finnish melodic death metal band Eternal Tears of Sorrow. The album counts guest performances from Marco Hietala (Tarot and Nightwish), Jarmo Kylmänen (who joined the band in 2008), Sfinx (Ram-Zet) and Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica).

==Production== The recording was started in 2005, after the band came back together and reforged their line-up. It is the band's first album recorded in two different studios (excluding some random recordings on previous albums). Keyboards were recorded by member Janne Tolsa, at his Note On Studios – the rest of the instruments were recorded at Tico-Tico Studios.

It is also the band's third album to include material from two recording sessions. ''Sinner's Serenade'' was recorded in July 1996 but also included material from their ''Bard's Burial'' demo tape (recorded in October 1994). ''A Virgin and a Whore'' was recorded in May 2001 but one of its songs ("Last One for Life") was recorded in December 2000. ''Before the Bleeding Sun'' was recorded in two sessions, in spring 2005 and in December 2005-January 2006.

==Track listing== {{tracklist | title1 = Sweet Lilith of My Dreams | lyrics1 = Puolakanaho & Veteläinen | music1 = Puolakanaho & Ruuth & Tolsa | length1 = 4:51 | title2 = Another Me | lyrics2 = Veteläinen | music2 = Kylmänen | length2 = 3:51 | title3 = Red Dawn Rising | lyrics3 = Veteläinen & Puolakanaho | music3 = Puolakanaho | length3 = 5:06 | title4 = Upon the Moors | lyrics4 = Puolakanaho | music4 = Puolakanaho | length4 = 4:48 | title5 = Sakura No Rei | lyrics5 = Puolakanaho & Veteläinen | music5 = Kylmänen | length5 = 2:12 | title6 = Sinister Rain | lyrics6 = Puolakanaho | music6 = Puolakanaho | length6 = 5:41 | title7 = Lost Rune of Thunder | lyrics7 = Veteläinen | music7 = Ruuth | length7 = 4:03 | title8 = Tar Still Flows | lyrics8 = Veteläinen & Sankala | music8 = Veteläinen & Puolakanaho | length8 = 3:55 | title9 = Angelheart, Ravenheart (Act I: Before the Bleeding Sun) | lyrics9 = Veteläinen | music9 = Puolakanaho & Kylmänen | length9 = 8:40 }}

==Personnel== ;Band members * Altti Veteläinen − vocals, bass guitar * Risto Ruuth − lead guitar, backing vocals (track 1) * Jarmo Puolakanaho − guitars, backing vocals (track 1) * Janne Tolsa − keyboards * Petri Sankala − drums

;Guest vocals * Jarmo Kylmänen − clean vocals (on tracks 3, 5, 6 and 9) * Miriam Elisabeth "Sfinx" Renvåg − female vocals (on tracks 3, 5, 6 and 9) * Marco Hietala − backing vocals (on tracks 3, 5, 6 and 9) * Tony Kakko − backing vocals (on tracks 3 and 9)

== Charts == {| class="wikitable" !align="left" width="180"|Chart (2006) !align="left"|Peak<br />position |- |align="left"|Finnish Albums Chart<ref>[http://www.yle.fi/lista/listat/tuote.php?id=6814 Finnish Album Charts, Suomen virallinen lista]</ref> |align="center"|26 |- |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Eternal Tears of Sorrow}} {{authority control}} Category:2006 albums Category:Eternal Tears of Sorrow albums