Black Shining Leather

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.

Black Shining Leather
Studio album by Carpathian Forest
Released	August 1998
Recorded	April 1998 at Sound Suite
Genre	Black metal
Length	50:45
Label	Avantgarde
Producer	Carpathian Forest and Terje Refsnes
Carpathian Forest chronology
Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods (1995) Black Shining Leather (1998) Strange Old Brew (2000)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Chronicles of Chaos	10/10

It was their only release to feature Lazare on drums, who left the band in the following year and would later join Borknagar.

Track listing

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

Peaceville Records 2007 digipak re-issue bonus track

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"A Forest" (The Cure cover)	Lol Tolhurst, Matthieu Hartley, Robert Smith, Simon Gallup	5:57

Personnel

Carpathian Forest

• Roger Rasmussen (Nattefrost) — lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards
• Johnny Krøvel (Nordavind) — backing vocals, background guitar, keyboards, bass guitar
• Lars Are Nedland (Lazare) — drums, percussion

Miscellaneous staff

• Terje Refsnes — production, engineering

External links

• Black Shining Leather at AllMusic