Sacro Culto is the second studio album by Italian symphonic black metal band Opera IX, released in 1998 through Shiver Records. Beginning with this album, Opera IX started to gradually include elements of gothic metal in their sound.

Sacro Culto
Studio album by
Released1998
GenreSymphonic black metal, black-doom, gothic metal
Length70:24
LabelShiver Records
ProducerOpera IX
Opera IX chronology
The Call of the Wood
(1995)
Sacro Culto
(1998)
The Black Opera: Symphoniæ Mysteriorum in Laudem Tenebrarum
(2000)

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Opera IX

No.TitleLength
1."The Oak"10:40
2."Fronds of the Ancient Walnut"12:25
3."The Naked and the Dance"8:20
4."Cimmeries"12:42
5."My Devotion"14:59
6."Under the Sign of the Red Dragon"11:18

Personnel

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Opera IX
  • Cadaveria (Raffaella Rivarolo) — vocals
  • Ossian D'Ambrosio — guitars
  • Vlad — bass
  • Flegias, a.k.a. Marcelo Santos (Alberto Gaggiotti) — drums
  • Lunaris — keyboards
Miscellaneous staff
  • Stefano Tappari — sound engineering
  • Armin Linke — photography
  • Danilo Capua — miniatures and drawings, artwork; cover painting on the Peaceville reissue
  • Paola Gaggiotti — graphics