Amanethes
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2008 |
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| Label (s) | Nuclear Blast | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
62:03 |
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Johan Edlund |
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Studio (s) |
The Mansion, Thessaloniki; Mega Studio, Stockholm; Woodhouse Studio, Hagen |
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Amanethes is the ninth studio album by the Swedish band Tiamat . It was released in 2008 through Nuclear Blast .
Amanethes (actually amanedhes ) is the plural of the term Amanes for a Greek style of music whose roots are said to go back to ancient Egyptian lamentations; it is also one of the first words in Greek that Johan Edlund , the head of the band, remembered.
In contrast to the previous albums, the band on Amanethes again picked up influences from extreme metal , in which their early works were rooted.
Emergence
Amanethes was initially chosen as the working title for the album, but “the longer we lived with it, the clearer it became that this was more than just a working title. For the first time, we didn't have to worry about what an album should be called, rather that term was in our heads when we were writing the music, and it shaped it. [...] AMANETHES stood like a question over the whole song-writing process, we wanted to fill this word with life, not to use its clichés. In addition, you can't just translate it, it's in a cultural context that, in a certain way, the music has also absorbed. There are some Greek influences there - as well as in the lyrics. ”However, not all of the pieces come from the time before Edlund moved to Thessaloniki, but in part from the time when he lived in Hamburg and Berlin.
Except for the drums, all tracks were recorded in Johan Edlund's home studio The Mansion in Thessaloniki; the drum tracks were recorded in the Mega Studio in Stockholm after bassist Anders Iwers " encountered a family silence when trying to get the In Flames studio through his brother (Peter, bassist with In Flames - Note D)". The album was mixed and mastered in Siggi Bemms Woodhouse studio in Hagen.
Track list
All pieces by Johan Edlund unless otherwise noted.
- The Temple of the Crescent Moon - 5:33
- Equinox of the Gods - 4:35
- Until the Hellhounds Sleep Again - 4:07
- Will They Come? - 5:13
- Lucienne - 4:41
- Summertime Is Gone - 3:53
- Katarraktis Apo Aima - 2:43
- Raining Dead Angels - 4:18
- Misantropolis - 4:13
- Amanitis - 3:21
- Meliae - 6:11
- Via Dolorosa - 4:06
- Circles - 3:48
- Amanes - 5:29 (Edlund, Anders Iwers)
- Thirst Snake (bonus title of the digipak version)
Music style and lyrics
After the development towards Dark Rock , Amanethes contains "again some hard, black metallic tracks", but in addition to the aggressive vocals of earlier Tiamat works, he also uses the well-known, Gothic- influenced style, eastern sounds and keyboard melodies. Robert Müller from Metal Hammer located the band's style on Amanethes "somewhere between Gothic Rock, Psychedelic and Prog Metal ".
Like "[i] n in a certain way [...] all Tiamat albums", Amanethes also has autobiographical traits, in addition the lyrics contain "some Greek influences" due to the orientation on the title of the album. When Robert Müller asked whether this was "the 'Johan im Liebesglück in Thessaloniki' album", the latter replied that love was "a topic, very clearly, but in all its facets. But a lot is not that specific. ”The titles Lucienne and Meliae were chosen because of their sound, the latter based on the meliads from Greek mythology ; since these are descendants of Gaia , this piece should be what Gaia was on Wildhoney .
Reviews
Amanethes was panned by rock-hard editor Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann. With reference to this slap, Edlund stated that he was "probably the only living front man of a Swedish black metal band from the eighties" and that he had "every right to write more black metal songs". Others could perhaps do better now, but he believes the text to The Equinox of the Gods is "brilliant". Since he admitted "no other opinion". Mühlmann's colleague Marcus Schleutermann wrote that it “admittedly doesn't quite come close to ' Clouds ', 'Wildhoney' or ' A Deeper Kind Of Slumber '” ”, but that it was“ still a successful album ”. Apart from “Equinox Of The Gods', which is in fact thoroughly unsuccessful with its completely unsuitable stick drumming”, he doesn't find “a single stinker”.
The album reached number 9 in the Metal Hammer Soundcheck. Matthias Mineur wrote that the new album shows “one thing above all: Deep down in Edlund's heart is a metal heart that pumps a lot of Gothic into his veins, but the hard use of sticks and the calf-biting guitars apparently as an inherent genetic predisposition. […] As a precautionary measure, people in the record company camp are talking about a stylistic mixture of the previous six studio records and hope that Tiamat will not scare off potential buyers with AMANETHES. The concern is unfounded: Those who go about their work so uncompromisingly will generally convince their fans - and Tiamat have not been as ruthless as on AMANETHES for ten years. ”He gave the album five out of seven points. His colleague Robert Müller wrote that those who did not like Judas Christ and Prey “would not break out in hymns of praise here either”, but if the music style on this album is accepted, it will delight “with an enormous range of musical expressions - of the relentless hardness of one 'Equinox Of The Gods' to the perfectly staged heartbreak of 'Amanes' ”. He awarded six points. Frank Thiessies compared the album "[from] mood and voice her hymnic and melodic-sacral" with The Sisters of Mercy , The Mission and Type O Negative , but the band blows "any candlelight and patchouli muff with a crushing metal hurricane in the orcus . It has to be like that! ”He also awarded five points.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Tiamat . Amanethes . In: Metal Hammer , May 2008, p. 110.
- ↑ Gail Holst-Warhaft: The Female Dervish and Other Shady Ladies of the Rebetika . In: Tullia Magrini: Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2003, p. 189, accessed January 28, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e f Robert Müller: Tiamat . Childhood love . In: Metal Hammer , May 2008, pp. 40f.
- ^ Robert Müller: Tiamat . Déjà vu . In: Metal Hammer , March 2008, p. 23.
- ↑ a b c Frank Albrecht: Tiamat . In the evening at the counter . In: Rock Hard , No. 307, December 2012, p. 49.
- ↑ a b Dimitris Kontogeorgakos: Tiamat - Amanethes , April 15, 2008, accessed on January 28, 2013.
- ^ Marcus Schleutermann: Tiamat . Amanethes . In: Rock Hard , No. 252, accessed January 28, 2013.