The Chemical Wedding
by Bruce Dickinson
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 September 1998
- Label: Air Raid
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:11:50
- Community rating: 3.82/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'The Chemical Wedding' is an epic, heavily alchemical heavy metal concept album inspired by the works of William Blake. Bruce Dickinson steps away from his traditional NWOBHM sound to deliver incredibly passionate, melodic, and down-tuned fantasy metal anthems.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, fantasy, occult, literary, riff-heavy
Tracklist
- King in Crimson (4:43)
- Chemical Wedding (4:06)
- The Tower (4:45)
- Killing Floor (4:29)
- Book of Thel (8:14)
- Gates of Urizen (4:24)
- Jerusalem (6:42)
- Trumpets of Jericho (5:58)
- Machine Men (5:41)
- The Alchemist (6:03)
- Return of the King (5:06)
- Real World (3:59)
- Confeos (7:35)
Credits
- Bruce Dickinson - primary artist, voice, written-by
- Diablo Design Ltd - art direction, design
- Hugh Gilmour - art direction, design, artwork [other images]
- William Blake - artwork [other images], cover ["the ghost of a flea"], lyrics by [poetry by]
- Eddie Casillas - bass, written-by
- David Ingraham - drums
- Joe Floyd - engineer
- Roy Z - engineer, guitar, keyboards, mixed by, producer, soloist [guitar solo], written-by
- Stan Katayama - engineer, mixed by
- Tom Banghart - engineer [additional engineering], engineer [assistant]
- Richard Carette - engineer [assistant]
- Sam Storey - engineer [assistant]
- Adrian Smith - guitar, keyboards, soloist [guitar solo], written-by
- Greg Schultz - keyboards
- Dave Collins - mastered by
- Jorge Palacios - musical assistance [drum rental]
- William Hames - photography by
- Mike Fasano - technician [drum tech]
- The Guru - technician [guitar tech], backing vocals
- Arthur Brown - voice [spoken word]
- The Dyslexic Voice Of Dog - voice [spoken word]
- Craig Lichtenstein - backing vocals
- Frazeeke MC - backing vocals
- Willy 666 - backing vocals