First Breath

First Breath is the debut studio album by Danish melodic death metal band Mercenary. With this album, the band showed their death metal roots. First Breath was recorded at the Aabenraa Studio in Denmark.

First Breath
Studio album by Mercenary
Released	12 January 1998
Recorded	Aabenraa Studio, Denmark
Genre	Melodic death metal, death metal
Length	63:11
Label	Hammerheart Records / Serious Entertainment
Producer	Jacob Hansen
Mercenary chronology
Supremacy (EP) (1996) First Breath (1998) Everblack (2002)

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Symbiotic"	4:11
2.	"World Wide Weep"	4:41
3.	"Horizon"	8:00
4.	"Master Game"	5:06
5.	"Perceptive"	6:26
6.	"Graveart"	4:24
7.	"Next to Nothing"	3:45
8.	"Demon8"	6:48
9.	"Watching Me"	4:38
10.	"Alternative Ways"	3:52
11.	"Sister Jane"	5:54
12.	"Supremacy" (bonus track from Supremacy EP (1996))	5:21

All tracks are written by Mercenary.

Personnel

• Nikolaj Brinkmann – lead guitar
• Jakob Mølbjerg – rhythm guitar
• Henrik "Kral" Andersen – unclean vocals, bass
• Rasmus Jacobsen – drums

Guest appearances

• Irene Poulsen – clean vocals on "Horizon" and "Sister Jane"
• Jakob Sivsgård – keyboards on "Horizon" and "Demon8"

Production

• Produced and engineered by Jacob Hansen
• Mixed by Jacob Hansen and Kræn Meier

References

• First Breath at AllMusic. Retrieved 24 April 2015.