A deeper kind of slumber

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A deeper kind of slumber
Studio album by Tiamat

Publication
(s)

May 1997

Label (s) Century Media

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Progressive metal , synth rock

Title (number)

10

running time

71 min. 52 sec.

occupation
  • Oboe : Anke Eilhardt
  • Keyboard (additional): Dirk Draeger

production

Dirk Draeger

Studio (s)

  • January - March 1997
  • Woodhouse Studios, Hagen
chronology
Wildhoney
(1994)
A deeper kind of slumber Skeleton Skeletron
(1999)

A Deeper Kind of Slumber is the fifth studio album by the Swedish metal band Tiamat . The album was released in 1997 on the Century Media label , producers of the album are Dirk Draeger and the band's singer, Johan Edlund .

music

The concept album was released in a phase in which Tiamat had completely outgrown Death Metal and tended from Gothic Metal with the lavish instrumentation of the previous album Wildhoney to a slow form of Progressive Metal or "experimental rock" with synthesizers . There are also similarities with, for example, the Synth Rock by Depeche Mode . In contrast to its predecessor, Tiamat does without any metal staging with A Deeper Kind of Slumber and creates a gentle, melancholic and psychedelic atmosphere through calm sounds . The music is occasionally compared with the recordings of Pink Floyd , from which the band also took over Vogelzwitschern.

Instruments and guest musicians

The album A Deeper Kind of Slumber is characterized by an instrumentation atypical for heavy metal. While the regular line-up of the band played the basis of electric guitar (Thomas Petersson, Johan Edlund), acoustic guitar (Thomas Petersson), electric bass ( Anders Iwers ) and drums (Lars Sköld), Johan Edlund also used the keyboard as Ätherophon known theremin used.

Guest musicians from the German band The Inchtabokatables played the string instruments cello and violin and the Finnish Sami Yli-Sirniö played the sitar . The set of instruments was completed by the flute (Ertugrul Coruk) and the oboe (Anke Eilhardt). In addition to the singer Edlund, Birgit Zacher (singer of Moonspell and Angel Dust ) worked as a background singer.

reception

In German Rock Hard , Wolfgang Schäfer wrote that Tiamat had managed to top Wildhoney . He drew comparisons with Depeche Mode and Nick Cave and praised the record as "trend-setting" and "unconventional and courageous step". Schäfer awarded the top grade 10. The album also received this top grade at metal.de . The only word to describe it is "different". It creates “worlds of sound” that “fully develop their effect” after getting used to it for some time. Here, too, the album is mentioned in one go with Wildhoney . On allmusic.com , Steve Huey sees A Deeper Kind of Slumber as being somewhat “below” Wildhoney in terms of “continuous audibility” . It awards four out of five stars.

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
A deeper kind of slumber
  DE 29 05/12/1997 (5 weeks)
  AT 22nd 05/25/1997 (6 weeks)
  SE 39 05/02/1997 (2 weeks)
  1. Cold Seed
  2. Teonanacatl
  3. Trillion Zillion Centipedes
  4. The Desolate One
  5. Atlantis as a lover
  6. Alteration X 10
  7. Four Leary Biscuits
  8. Only in My Tears It Lasts
  9. The Whores Of Babylon
  10. Kite
  11. Phantasma De Luxe
  12. Mount Marilyn
  13. A deeper kind of slumber

On July 27, 2007, a deluxe edition was released, which, in addition to the songs from the album, contained a mix version of Only in My Tears It Lasts (from the single Cold Seed ) and several video clips:

  1. Only in My Tears It Lasts (The Cat Mix)
  2. Alteration X 10 (video clip)
  3. Cold Seed (video clip)
  4. Phantsma De Luxe (video clip)

Singles

Only the song Cold Seed was released as a single from the concept album in 1997 . It contained the following songs:

  1. Cold Seed
  2. Only in My Tears It Lasts
  3. Three Leary Biscuits

Individual evidence

  1. www.allmusic.com: Tiamat band website
  2. www.rockhard.de Band biography Tiamat
  3. a b Wolfgang Schäfer: TIAMAT . A deeper kind of slumber . In: Rock Hard , No. 120.
  4. a b c TIAMAT - A Deeper Kind Of Slumber . Review on metal.de
  5. ^ I Megalomaniac 1997 ( Memento of May 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), on the Church of Tiamat homepage (archived).
  6. Steve Huey: A Deeper Kind of Slumber - Tiamat .
  7. DE: musicline.de ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. AT: http://austriancharts.at/
  9. SE: http://swedishcharts.com/