Liberty or Death (album)

Digipak Bonus Track
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Ship of Hope"	5:05

Special edition Disc 2: *Yesterday*
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Yesterday (2006)"	5:19
2.	"The Reapers Dance"	4:35
3.	"No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin cover)	6:57
4.	"Yesterday" (Orchestra Version)	4:07

Lyrical themes

Vocalist Chris Boltendahl was inspired with this album by the book named "Liberty Or Death" by the Cretean writer Nikos Kazantzakis, whose title is the English translation of Eleftheria i thanatos. The book directly inspired the title song about the Greek revolution on Crete, with lyrical references to the Greek national anthem.
Two songs deal with Germany's treatment of the Jews in the Second World War and a further two more about more Ancient Jewish history. "Ocean of Blood" tells of Moses parting the Red Sea and "Massada" tells of the siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War. "March of the Innocent" is about the Holocaust and "Ship of Hope" tells of the "Voyage of the Damned" of the SS St. Louis. Boltendahl said that the number of songs on this subject was not intended, but that the stories were interesting on their own. [1]
"Highland Tears" deals with freedom in Scotland. "Forecourt to Hell" deals with the gladiators in the Roman Empire age. "The Terrible One" is about Ivan the Terrible. "Until the Last King Died" is about the French Revolution, "Shadowland" about the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan in the USA and "Silent Revolution" deals with Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent struggle against the oppression of the Indian people. [2]

^ Blackie, Andrew (2 May 2007). "Grave Digger: Liberty or Death". PopMatters. Retrieved 6 January 2019.

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Chris "Reaper" Boltendahl Jens Becker Tobias "Tobi" Kersting Marcus Kniep Lutz Schmelzer Peter Masson Philip Seibel Martin Gerlitzki Willi Lackman Albert Eckardt C.F. Frank Peter Breitenbach Tomi Göttlich Uwe Lulis Jörg Michael Frank Ulrich Manni Schmidt Thilo Hermann Hans Peter "H.P." Katzenburg Stefan Arnold Axel "Ironfinger" Ritt
Studio albums	Heavy Metal Breakdown Witch Hunter War Games Stronger than Ever (as Digger) The Reaper Heart of Darkness Tunes of War Knights of the Cross Excalibur The Grave Digger Rheingold The Last Supper Liberty or Death Ballads of a Hangman The Clans Will Rise Again Clash of the Gods Return of the Reaper Healed by Metal The Living Dead Fields of Blood Symbol of Eternity
Live albums	Tunes of Wacken 25 to Live The Clans Are Still Marching
EPs	Shoot Her Down Symphony of Death The Dark of the Sun Yesterday Pray The Ballad of Mary Home at Last
Compilations	The Best of the Eighties Die Definitive Biografie The History - Part One Masterpieces - Best Of Album Lost Tunes from the Vault Exhumation (The Early Years) Let Your Heads Roll - The Very Best of the Noise Years 1984-1986 The Forgotten Years
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