In Memoriam (Mayhemic Truth Album)
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| Mayhemic Truth compilation album | ||||
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Publication |
1999 |
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admission |
1995, 1996 |
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| Label (s) | Iron Pegasus Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
43 m 01 s |
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Studio (s) |
FoA studios |
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In Memoriam is a CD / LP by the German pagan metal band Mayhemic Truth , on which their EP Cythraw and their demo recording Demo '96 were posthumously re-released.
Emergence
The recordings for the EP were made in February 1995 in the FoA studios by Roman Thynorn, who supported the band as keyboard player, the demo recording there in September 1996. The band split up in June 1997 because of personal problems between Beliar and Balor.
In Memoriam was posthumously released by Costa Stoios on his Iron Pegasus Records label. The rest of the Mayhemic Truth recordings were not re-released as Stoios felt they sounded too bad.
When Beliar and Balor were writing music together again after settling their differences in 2000, they chose the new name Morrigan , as they thought it would have been a joke to go back to the Mayhemic Truth name after the release of In Memoriam , and this was therefore never considered.
Track list
- Intro - 1:57
- Lady Morgaine - 4:06
- When Thousand Candles Cry - 5:40
- Morrigan - 3:43
- Carrion of War - 3:27
- Fire and Ice - 3:06
- Conspiracy of the Golden Angels - 5:19
- Bluot Era Hathu - 7:10
- Cythraw - 3:51
- Hymn of the Crow - 4:42
The first seven tracks are from the demo recording Demo '96 , the following three from the EP Cythraw .
The LP versions also contain the song And Only the Flames Remember to Long Forgotten Cries from the recording Promo '94 , which was recorded in January 1994 with Lilith as bassist. The I Hate Records re-release includes the full promo recording.
layout
The held cover shows the silhouettes of several megaliths against an orange sky.
The design of the re-release has been changed from the original and contains detailed information on the three original releases and pictures of their original inserts. The thank you list has also been updated and is very similar to that of the then current Morrigan CD. The quality of the cover, however, is worse than the original. The same was also criticized with the release of Protector's Ominous Message of Brutality .
style
Stylistically the band is strongly inspired by Bathory and mixes elements of their early, aggressive and raw albums like The Return ...... and Under the Sign of the Black Mark with epic influences of the Pagan / Viking albums like Hammerheart .
Reviews
According to Martin Wickler's criticism of Metal Hammer , the release proves "that Mayhemic Truth once belonged to the most promising bands on the German scene". Markus Eck from Metalmessage described In Memoriam as a "consistently brilliant record" that shows what the band had "for an incredibly great potential". Frank Stöver from Voices from the Darkside wrote that the music should please everyone who can enjoy a "perfect mix" of the epic Bathory albums with an "overall more dominant Black Metal grimness". He himself would like a successor with the other recordings. Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from the rock-hard magazine is of the opinion that the mixture of “Black Metal in its primitive elemental force, which cracks straightforward, simply" just "evil, and on the other hand [...] pathos with heroic choirs, dragging hymns and Wagnerian marching bombast "Is not original, but" special because of its rarity ". He sees In Memoriam as “an homage to the early days of black art” and could “also recommend it from this point of view”. The magazine added the compilation to its "250 Black Metal Albums To Know" list.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Costa Stoios: Warlike Hordes and a Calling Battle, this is the Soul of Heavy Metal . In: Tales of the Macabre , No. 6, p. 7.
- ↑ a b Robin: One Should Use a Hardcore Band to Express Politics Through! ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ a b Frank Stöver: MORRIGAN .
- ↑ a b Frank Stöver: MAYHEMIC TRUTH - In Memoriam .
- ^ A b Frank Stöver: PROTECTOR - Ominous Message Of Brutality .
- ↑ a b c d Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: MAYHEMIC TRUTH . In memoriam . In: Rock Hard , No. 151.
- ↑ Martin Wickler: Mayhemic Truth . In memoriam . In: Metal Hammer , February 2000, p. 98.
- ↑ Markus Eck: Morrigan . Headstrong individualists .
- ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard , No. 269, October 2009, p. 75.
