Those Once Loyal

Those Once Loyal is the eighth and final studio album by British death metal band Bolt Thrower, released on 11 November 2005 by Metal Blade Records. Recorded with producer Andy Faulkner at Sable Rose Studios in Coventry, England, it was the first Bolt Thrower album since Mercenary to feature vocalist Karl Willetts, who rejoined the band in November 2004. Musically, Those Once Loyal incorporates tighter song structures and arrangements into Bolt Thrower's melodic, groove-based sound, while enhancing the production quality of the band's previous albums. As with their earlier works, the lyrics address various aspects of war. Commentators and music critics have said that the album has a thematic focus on World War I, which was previously explored on the band's fifth album ...For Victory; its cover artwork was derived from a plaque on the Guards Memorial in St. James's Park, London. Well received by critics upon release, Those Once Loyal debuted at number 76 on the German Offizielle Top 100 chart, becoming the highest-charting album of Bolt Thrower's career. The band supported the album's release with the Those Still Loyal Tour across Europe, running from January to June 2006. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_O...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)