Battle Beast (album)

Battle Beast is the second full-length album recorded by the heavy metal band Battle Beast, released in May 2013. The album peaked at No. 5 in the Finnish Albums Chart.

Battle Beast
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin
Studio album by Battle Beast
Released	17 May 2013
Recorded	2012, JKB Studios, Helsinki, Finland
Genre	Heavy metal, power metal
Length	48:13 (without the bonus track) 51:58 (with the bonus track)
Label	WEA Finland Nuclear Blast
Producer	Anton Kabanen, Janne Björkroth
Battle Beast chronology
Steel (2011) Battle Beast (2013) Unholy Savior (2015)

Track listing

All tracks are written by Anton Kabanen

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Let It Roar"	3:41
2.	"Out of Control"	3:48
3.	"Out on the Streets"	2:54
4.	"Neuromancer"	4:00
5.	"Raven"	2:57
6.	"Into the Heart of Danger"	5:29
7.	"Machine Revolution"	4:01
8.	"Golden Age"	1:59
9.	"Kingdom"	5:05
10.	"Over the Top"	2:39
11.	"Fight, Kill, Die"	2:43
12.	"Black Ninja"	3:50
13.	"Rain Man"	5:10
Total length:		48:27

German edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
14.	"Shutdown"	3:42
Total length:		51:59

Literary references

As with Steel, several songs on Battle Beast reference the dark fantasy manga Berserk by Kentaro Miura: "Out of Control", "Golden Age", "Kingdom", and "Fight, Kill, Die". "Neuromancer", meanwhile, is about the William Gibson cyberpunk novel of same name.

Personnel

Battle Beast

• Noora Louhimo - lead vocals
• Anton Kabanen - lead guitar, backing vocals (co-lead vocals on tracks 1, 5 and 13), production, engineering, mixing
• Juuso Soinio - rhythm guitar
• Eero Sipilä - bass, backing vocals
• Pyry Vikki - drums
• Janne Björkroth - keyboards, orchestration, backing vocals, co-production, engineering, mixing

Additional musicians

• Joonas Kaikko - percussion

Production

• Lucas Lönnross - engineer
• Mika Jussila - mastering at Finnvox Studios