Chaotic Beauty

Chaotic Beauty is the third album by Finnish melodic death metal band Eternal Tears of Sorrow.^[1] It was their first album without the original three founding members of the band (guitarist Olli-Pekka Törrö had left the band in early 1999) and the first EToS album with a five-member line-up.

Chaotic Beauty
Studio album by Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Released	2000
Recorded	November–December 1999
Studio	Tico-Tico Studio (Kemi, Finland)
Genre	Melodic death metal
Length	39:34 (Japan: 58:19)
Label	Spinefarm
Eternal Tears of Sorrow chronology
Vilda Mánnu (1998) Chaotic Beauty (2000) A Virgin and a Whore (2001)

The guest vocalist on the album was Kimberly Goss of Sinergy, and Heli Luokkala on the Japanese bonus CD. The song "Black Tears" is a cover, originally written by Dan Swanö for his band Edge of Sanity.

This album continues the band's tradition to record albums with Ahti Kortelainen at Tico-Tico Studio in Kemi, Finland. However, this is the first EToS album that Mikko Karmila mixed; before Chaotic Beauty, all albums were also mixed by Ahti Kortelainen.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Shattered Soul"	Puolakanaho & Veteläinen	Puolakanaho & Hiltula	3:55
2.	"Blood of Faith Stains My Hands"	Puolakanaho & Veteläinen	Puolakanaho	4:34
3.	"Autumn's Grief"	Veteläinen	Eternal Tears of Sorrow	4:56
4.	"The Seventh Eclipse"	Veteläinen & Talala	Talala & Hiltula & Puolakanaho	4:25
5.	"Bride of the Crimson Sea"	Puolakanaho & Veteläinen	Puolakanaho & Veteläinen	5:20
6.	"Black Tears (Edge of Sanity cover)"	Dan Swanö	Dan Swanö	3:13
7.	"Tar of Chaos"	Veteläinen & Puolakanaho	Talala & Hiltula & Puolakanaho	3:19
8.	"Bhéan Sidhe"	Veteläinen & Sankala & Puolakanaho	Puolakanaho & Talala & Hiltula	4:12
9.	"Nocturnal Strains"	Veteläinen	Talala & Puolakanaho	5:30

Japanese edition bonus tracks

10. Flight of Icarus (Iron Maiden cover) – 4:14
11. Coronach – 4:54
12. Nightwind's Lullaby – 5:29
13. Burning Flames' Embrace – 4:08

Personnel

Band members

• Altti Veteläinen − vocals, bass
• Jarmo Puolakanaho − guitar
• Antti-Matti Talala − lead guitar
• Pasi Hiltula − keyboards
• Petri Sankala − drums

Guest appearances

• Kimberly Goss − female vocals (on tracks 5 and 9), whispering (on track 3)
• Heli Luokkala − female vocals (on track 12, Japanese bonus CD)