Operation Hummingbird (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Operation Hummingbird

| type = studio

| artist = Death in June

| cover = Operation_Hummingbird_DiJ.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1999

| recorded = June – July 1999

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = *Martial industrial

| length = 28:11

| label = New European Recordings

| producer =

| prev_title = Take Care & Control

| prev_year = 1998

| next_title = All Pigs Must Die

| next_year = 2001

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/operation-hummingbird-mw0000066665|title=Operation Hummingbird - Death in June | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}

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Operation Hummingbird is a studio album by Death In June, released in 1999.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/death-in-june-mn0000228371/biography|title=Death in June Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cU6TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA67|title=Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music: Milieux Cultures|first=Peter|last=Webb|date=June 10, 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-91079-2 |via=Google Books}}

The album contains seven new songs recorded with Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch. It is considered a smaller, sister album to Take Care & Control.

Critical reception

AllMusic thought that "led by chanting vocals, 'The Snows of the Enemy (Little Black Baby)' and 'Let a Wind Catch a Rainbow on Fire' are eerily reminiscent of Britain's pre-Christian past."

Track listing

"Gorilla Tactics" – 1:45
"Kapitulation" – 3:09
"Flieger" – 6:02
"The Snows of the Enemy (Little Black Baby)" – 6:15
"Hand Grenades and Olympic Flames" – 2:58
"Winter Eagle" – 3:53
"Let the Wind Catch a Rainbow on Fire" – 4:07

References

Category:Death in June albums

Category:1999 albums