Stronghold is the fourth full-length album by the Austrian black metal band Summoning.

This album marked a change in the sound of Summoning as it was much more "guitar orientated with more compact keyboard-melodies".

[1] "Where Hope and Daylight Die" features Tania Borsky, Protector's ex-girlfriend and a former member of Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, on lead vocals.

The album's cover was adapted from 'The Bard', an 1817 painting by John Martin.

[1] Stronghold marks the first time in which not all lyrics were derived from J. R. R. Tolkien [2]