Artifact (album)

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artifact
Aclys studio album

Publication
(s)

2004

Label (s) Burning Season Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Death metal , metalcore

Title (number)

11

running time

38 min 00 s

occupation
  • Bass : Martin Herting
  • Drums : Nils Knabenschuh

production

Aclys

chronology
Song Birth
(2000) 		artifact -

Artifact is the third album by the German band Aclys . It was released in 2004 through Burning Season Records . Stylistically it is Metalcore with influences from Death Metal .

Emergence

Work on the album began during Europe - tour in the summer of 2000. Following the departure of bassist Andreas Radischewski was delayed recording. Only when a successor was found in the session bassist Martin Herting, who later joined the band as a permanent member, was Aclys able to go into the studio with the material.

The recordings took place in the Soundstep Studio and took two weeks to complete. The album title refers to the word artifact . The central motif of the record cover is a white cube that is held by a person who can only be recognized as a torso .

Track list

  1. Synopsis
  2. Blossoms
  3. format
  4. profile
  5. gold
  6. placebo
  7. Half dream
  8. Ex eventu
  9. leprosy
  10. Circle number
  11. Canticle

style

Stylistically, Aclys stayed true to the music of their previous albums; but the borrowings from Death Metal are more evident than on the previous album, Liedergeburt . The overall deeper singing style in the songs Bluten and Format even reaches the pitch of the original guttural singing typical of Death Metal . Although the album contains more catchy melodies and acoustic parts than the band's previous releases, it is perceived as “harder” in many reviews. Blastbeats are used more often than on the previous album and increase the contrast to the more catchy passages. The musical spectrum has expanded into the areas of Black Metal ( Bleeding , Format , Halbtraum ) and Jazz ( Ex Eventu , Canticum ).

With Canticum , a song was presented for the first time, in which mainly clearer singing can be heard and more guttural seem to only serve as an ornament.

Texts

The texts written by Dirk Jäger exclusively in German take up not only emotional topics but also topics from philosophy . In some cases, very strict lyrical forms and rhyme schemes (example: Bluten a / b / a / c / b / c) are used. The texts sometimes contain allusions to works from world literature such as Rainer Maria Rilke's Der Panther in the song Kreiszahl . Another hidden allusion can be found in the song Bluten , which contains a double verse in Latin , which is apparently a translation from Stephen R. Donaldson's book "Lord Foul's Bane". The same line is quoted in its English original in the Metallica song To Live Is to Die .

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