Sacro Culto

Sacro Culto
Studio album by Opera IX
Released	1998
Genre	Symphonic black metal, black/doom, gothic metal
Length	1:10:24
Label	Shiver Records
Producer	Opera IX
Opera IX chronology
The Call of the Wood (1995) Sacro Culto (1998) The Black Opera: Symphoniæ Mysteriorum in Laudem Tenebrarum (2000)

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 starts to gradually include more elements of gothic metal in their sonority.

Track listing

All tracks written by Opera IX. 

No.	Title	Length
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

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