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Tiamat - Commandments: An Anthology Vinyl (Metal Box)
€199.99
Just like many other Scandinavian bands that rose to fame in the nineties Tiamat has gone through important stylistic changes in its impressive career. The band around singer and guitarist Johan Edlund who also plays keyboards and theremin on some occasions, has evolved from a sinister doom metal band with dominant death metal influences into a gothic rock act flirting with extremes like pop music but also its own extreme metal roots.
Releasing a compilation of the band's first decade and a half of activities in chronological order makes sense in such a context as it helps us follow and understand the development of the Swedish quartet. The release starts with the raw ''Where the Serpents Ever Dwell'' that comes around with miserable and creeping doom metal riffs meeting raw and terrifying vocals. The track is taken from the band's ambitious conceptual debut record Sumerian Cry when Johan Edlund still called himself Hellslaughter.
As soon as the group's third album gets covered by this compilation, the already imaginative music gets a more melodic and mysterious touch such as in the wonderful ''A Caress of Stars'' taken from the underrated Clouds record that is often overlooked between the doom metal milestone The Astral Sleep and the popular gothic metal record Wildhoney that helped shaping this new genre of music.
The latter release included at times cinematic, epic and progressive elements such as in the imaginative ''Gaia'' that requests multiple spins to unfold. Later in its career, Tiamat's sound became simpler and mellower. This double album comes out in deluxe gatefold edition, in two colors (Gold / Red) 500 limited edition each. There is also a special limited edition of 60 copies in Metal Box for the collectors.
Tracklist:
- Disc 1 -
- Where The Serpents Ever Dwell
- On Golden Wings
- Ancient Entity
- The Sleeping Beauty
- A Caress Of Stars
- Whatever That Hurts
- Gaia
- Cold Seed
- Disc 2 -
- Phantasma De Luxe
- Brighter Than The Sun
- As Long As You Are Mine
- The Return Of The Son Of Nothing
- Vote For Love
- Cain
- Wings Of Heaven
- Divided (Edit)
- Tiamat
- 7 Mater
Tiamat - Commandments: An Anthology Vinyl (Metal Box)
€199.99
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Just like many other Scandinavian bands that rose to fame in the nineties Tiamat has gone through important stylistic changes in its impressive career. The band around singer and guitarist Johan Edlund who also plays keyboards and theremin on some occasions, has evolved from a sinister doom metal band with dominant death metal influences into a gothic rock act flirting with extremes like pop music but also its own extreme metal roots.
Releasing a compilation of the band's first decade and a half of activities in chronological order makes sense in such a context as it helps us follow and understand the development of the Swedish quartet. The release starts with the raw ''Where the Serpents Ever Dwell'' that comes around with miserable and creeping doom metal riffs meeting raw and terrifying vocals. The track is taken from the band's ambitious conceptual debut record Sumerian Cry when Johan Edlund still called himself Hellslaughter.
As soon as the group's third album gets covered by this compilation, the already imaginative music gets a more melodic and mysterious touch such as in the wonderful ''A Caress of Stars'' taken from the underrated Clouds record that is often overlooked between the doom metal milestone The Astral Sleep and the popular gothic metal record Wildhoney that helped shaping this new genre of music.
The latter release included at times cinematic, epic and progressive elements such as in the imaginative ''Gaia'' that requests multiple spins to unfold. Later in its career, Tiamat's sound became simpler and mellower. This double album comes out in deluxe gatefold edition, in two colors (Gold / Red) 500 limited edition each. There is also a special limited edition of 60 copies in Metal Box for the collectors.
Tracklist:
- Disc 1 -
- Where The Serpents Ever Dwell
- On Golden Wings
- Ancient Entity
- The Sleeping Beauty
- A Caress Of Stars
- Whatever That Hurts
- Gaia
- Cold Seed
- Disc 2 -
- Phantasma De Luxe
- Brighter Than The Sun
- As Long As You Are Mine
- The Return Of The Son Of Nothing
- Vote For Love
- Cain
- Wings Of Heaven
- Divided (Edit)
- Tiamat
- 7 Mater
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