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Entropia is Pain of Salvation's first studio album. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist Pain of Salvation is a Swedish Progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist chief composer guitarist and lead vocalist A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Progressive metal (often referred to simply as prog metal) is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music which blends the powerful guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Pain of Salvation is a Swedish Progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist chief composer guitarist and lead vocalist One Hour by the Concrete Lake is Pain of Salvation 's second studio album Pain of Salvation is a Swedish Progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist chief composer guitarist and lead vocalist It is a concept album concerning a family in a fictional society that is torn apart by a war. In Popular music, a concept album is an Album which is "unified by a theme which can be instrumental compositional narrative or lyrical" The title is a portmanteau of Entropy (from thermodynamics, the measure of disorder present in a system), and Utopia (the ideal society). In Thermodynamics (a branch of Physics) entropy, symbolized by S, is a measure of the unavailability of a system ’s Energy Utopia is a name for an ideal community taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional Island in the This is the only album to feature Daniel Magdic on guitar.

1 Release History
2 Overview
3 Themes
4 Track listing
- 4.1 Additional Information
5 Personnel
- 5.1 The band
- 5.2 Other
6 References

Release History

Entropia was first released by the Japanese company Marquee on their Avalon label in August 1997 (see 1997 in music). Events January January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert Following favourable reviews and positive fan reactions in the progressive rock/metal world, Marquee decided to fly Daniel over to Tokyo a week in October 1997 to promote the album. While in Tokyo, Daniel featured in various TV and radio shows, did interviews for the Japanese metal press, and performed in selected record stores. Around this time, purchasing albums through online record stores was commonplace, and fans from around the world began to do so with Entropia.

It was subsequently released in Romania (1998 on Rocris Discs), in Europe (September 1999 on InsideOut Music), in South America (September 1999 on Hellion), and in the USA (2000 on InsideOut America). This elaborate release history is indicative of an emerging band's first album, and the fact that they do not have a long-term contract with a major record label. As a result, the album is released a number of times on a number of different labels in a number of countries, as demonstrated with Pain of Salvation. Pain of Salvation is a Swedish Progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist chief composer guitarist and lead vocalist

Overview

Entropia is perhaps best described as a groovy blend of progressive metal. While there are many metal sections to the songs, it is perhaps Pain of Salvation's "funkiest" album, and also incorporates many slower songs and passages.

Themes

Effect of war on family
Father leaves family to fight in war (to protect family)
Son being lead astray and fall to poverty.
Death of son -> Man's conflict with God
Move to West Entropia (swears to protect loved ones)
Hostile new life
Death of wife -> Man's conflict with God
Comes to terms with guilt for failing to protect loved ones
Chronological order of songs (mention that: the "time markers" that were to supposedly allow the chronological ordering of songs possible were somehow omitted from the final booklet production)

Track listing

1. (6:11) "! (Foreword)"

Chapter 1

2. (1:22) "Welcome to Entropia"

3. (6:33) "Winning a War"

4. (9:07) "People Passing By"

5. (4:43) "Oblivion Ocean"

Chapter 2

6. (5:01) "Stress"

7. (7:39) "Revival"

8. (1:46) "Void of Her"

9. (4:57) "To the End"

Chapter 3

10. (0:55) "Circles"

11. (6:49) "Nightmist"

12. (7:23) "Plains of Dawn"

13. (2:31) " Leaving Entropia (Epilogue)"

Additional Information

The Japanese version of "Entropia" has a bonus track after "To the End" titled "Never Learn to Fly".
All music by Daniel Gildenlöw except 1, 4 (part II), 6, 7 & 9 by Daniel Gildenlöw and Daniel Magdic.

Personnel

The band

Daniel Gildenlöw - Lead vocals, guitar
Daniel Magdic - Guitar, vocals
Fredrik Hermansson - Keyboard
Kristoffer Gildenlöw - Bass, vocals
Johan Langell - Drums, vocals

Other

Pain of Salvation - Producer, mastering
Ander "Theo" Theander - Producer, engineering
Anders Hansson - Engineering

References

PAIN OF SALVATION Entropia reviews and MP3 @ progarchives.com

Daniel Gildenlöw (born June 5, 1973) is a Swedish Musician and Songwriter. Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, which is often contrasted with Speech. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the The drum is a member of the percussion group technically classified as a Membranophone. Pain of Salvation is a Swedish Progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist chief composer guitarist and lead vocalist In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Mastering, a form of audio Post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a Data storage device Engineering is the Discipline and Profession of applying technical and scientific Knowledge and

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