---
title: "How to Measure a Planet? by The Gathering"
type: "MusicAlbum"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/album/ec4290d7-deca-4b9c-95af-5f8102564497"
artist: "The Gathering"
year: 1998
label: "Century Media"
---

# How to Measure a Planet?

**How to Measure a Planet?** is an album by The Gathering, released in 1998 on Century Media.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Title | How to Measure a Planet? |
| Artist | The Gathering |
| Type | Album |
| Year | 1998 |
| Label | Century Media |
| Catalog number | 77268-2 |
| Tracks | 14 |
| Place in discography | 6 of 20 |

## Tracklist

| # | Track | Length |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Frail (You Might as Well Be Me) | 5:05 |
| 2 | Great Ocean Road | 6:20 |
| 3 | Rescue Me | 6:22 |
| 4 | My Electricity | 3:32 |
| 5 | Liberty Bell | 6:02 |
| 6 | Red Is a Slow Colour | 6:26 |
| 7 | The Big Sleep | 5:01 |
| 8 | Marooned | 5:56 |
| 9 | Travel | 9:06 |
| 10 | South American Ghost Ride | 4:25 |
| 11 | Illuminating | 5:41 |
| 12 | Locked Away | 3:24 |
| 13 | Probably Built in the Fifties | 7:26 |
| 14 | How to Measure a Planet? | 28:33 |

## Genres

[Doom Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/doom-metal) · [Progressive Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/progressive-metal) · [Gothic Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/gothic-metal) · [Death Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/death-metal)

## Release tags

Progressive Metal · Symphonic Black Metal

## In the discography

- Previous release: [Nighttime Birds (1997)](https://themetalnet.com/album/e724eb5b-4b4d-3672-86fb-2d70ced58962)
- Next release: [if_then_else (2000)](https://themetalnet.com/album/52e7d302-d521-394a-a374-2729b3e273c8)

## Artist

- [The Gathering](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-gathering)

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