Antigone (album)
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2004 |
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| Label (s) | Century Media | |||
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12 |
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48 min 43 s |
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Maik Weichert and Alexander Dietz, co-production: Patrick W. Engel and Ralf Müller |
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Rape of Harmonies, Triptis |
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Antigone is the third studio album by the German metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn . It was released on April 26, 2004 via Century Media .
Emergence
The intro and the two outros were composed by the Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds . The musicians of Heaven Shall Burn met Arnalds in 2002 when the band was playing concerts in Iceland. The recordings took place in the Rape of Harmonies studio in the Thuringian city of Triptis . Was produced Antigone by Patrick W. Engel. The singer Alexander Dietz from the band Honeytoast can be heard as a guest musician on two songs.
The vinyl version of the album was released on the Lifeforce Records label , with which Heaven Shall Burn was previously under contract. The limited and Japanese versions of the album contain two cover versions : Dislocation and Not My God . The originals come from the bands Disembodied and Hate Squad . For the song The Weapon They Fear was in Chemnitz , a music video rotated.
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The album title refers to the figure Antigone from Greek mythology . In an interview, guitarist Maik Weichert explained that she is a symbol of a freedom fighter. Some songs deal with various contemporary freedom fighters.
The Weapon They Fear refers to the Chilean singer Víctor Jara , who was murdered in 1973 by followers of the dictator Augusto Pinochet . Jara had expressed himself critical of Pinochet several times in his texts. Tree of Freedom deals with the life of the South African civil rights activist Nelson Mandela , who fought against apartheid and spent 30 years in prison.
In Bleeding to Death is about the economic and social problems of the new federal states . Many young people left their homeland because they no longer saw any prospects. With Voice of the Voiceless the band expresses their vegan attitude.
reception
Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer magazine wrote in his review that the band “found their calling after two Metalcore albums” and that the album “ contains riff monsters that take good care of the neck muscles for a month”. Weckmann gave the album six out of seven points. For Andreas Himmelstein from Rock Hard magazine , the guitarists would conjure up a "harmonious riff force that, coupled with fantastic melodies and groove, represents an unparalleled aggressive fireworks display". He gave the album nine out of ten points. The reviewer "Metalgreg" from the online magazine Metal.de also gave it nine out of ten points . He described Antigone as "a rousing network of musical class and strong to fragile emotions, blessed with a high content of Swedish melodies and countless brute calories".
In the book Best of Rock & Metal by the German rock-hard magazine, which lists the 500 strongest metal and hard-rock albums of all time, according to the rock-hard editors, Antigone took 474th place.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Norman: Heaven Shall Burn - The stage is more important than any studio stays ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Stefan Eutebach: Interview with Matthias Voigt from Heaven Shall Burn .
- ^ Metal Hammer, May 2004, p. 108
- ↑ Andreas Himmelstein: HEAVEN SHALL BURN . Antigone In: Rock Hard , No. 204.
- ↑ Metal Greg: Heaven Shall Burn - Antigone - Review .
- ↑ Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal - The 500 strongest discs of all time . Heel Verlag , Königswinter 2005, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 17 .
