Black Shining Leather
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ReleasedAugust 1998
RecordedFebruary–May 1998
StudioSound Suite and Endless Sound, Oslo, Norway
| Black Shining Leather | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 1998 | |||
| Recorded | February–May 1998 | |||
| Studio | Sound Suite and Endless Sound, Oslo, Norway | |||
| Genre | Black metal | |||
| Length | 50:45 | |||
| Label | Avantgarde | |||
| Producer | Carpathian Forest and Terje Refsnes | |||
| Carpathian Forest chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Chronicles of Chaos | 10/10[1] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[2] |
| Rock Hard | 8.5/10[3] |
Black Shining Leather is the debut studio album by Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest. It was released in 1998 through Avantgarde Music, and re-issued in 2007 by Peaceville Records via digipak format.
It was their only release to feature Lazare on drums, who left the band in the following year and would later join Borknagar.
All tracks are written by Nattefrost and Nordavind, unless noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Black Shining Leather" | 4:32 |
| 2. | "The Swordsmen" | 4:07 |
| 3. | "Death Triumphant" | 4:27 |
| 4. | "Sadomasochistic" | 4:02 |
| 5. | "Lupus" (instrumental) | 3:06 |
| 6. | "Pierced Genitalia" | 4:18 |
| 7. | "In Silence I Observe" | 3:42 |
| 8. | "Lunar Nights" | 6:34 |
| 9. | "Third Attempt" | 3:18 |
| 10. | "The Northern Hemisphere" | 6:42 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11. | "A Forest" (The Cure cover) | Lol Tolhurst, Matthieu Hartley, Robert Smith, Simon Gallup | 5:57 |
