Octagon (Bathory album)
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Publication |
1995 |
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admission |
January 30–10. February 1995, 13-23 March 1995 |
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| Label (s) | Black Mark Production , Morbid Noizz Productions | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, MC |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
39:49 |
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Quorthon |
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Studio (s) |
Hellhole Studios |
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Octagon is the eighth album by the Swedish metal band Bathory . It was released in 1995 on CD via Black Mark Production and on MC via Morbid Noizz Productions.
Emergence
Quorthon is assumed to have used a drum computer , but he himself stated that he recorded the album with a drummer. The album was recorded at Hellhole Studios, produced by Quorthon and mastered by Tom Müller ; Rex Luger supported the band as a sound engineer .
Track list
Quorthon music and lyrics except where specified.
- Immaculate Pinetreeroad # 930 - 2:46
- Born to Die - 3:59
- Psychopath - 3:20
- Sociopath - 3:10
- Gray - 1:15
- Century - 4:09
- 33 Something - 3:16
- War Supply - 4:43
- Schizianity - 4:17
- Judgment of Posterity - 5:12
- Deuce - 3:42 ( Gene Simmons )
Music style and lyrics
Octagon continues the style of the previous album Requiem . Most of the pieces are built up chaotically. According to Marc Spermeth from Ablaze , the album “goes back at least a dozen years without looking antiquated”. The style is more reminiscent of early SLAYER - or VOIVOD - than old BATHORY releases. Kai Wendel from Rock Hard also compared the music with Slayer and accused Quorthon of having “stolen [b] especially cheeky” from Century , “because of the vocallines as well as the structure and the chords, damned like a cover version of 'Mandatory Suicide 'sounds. The other pieces also lack any recognition value due to the 'borrowed' riffs, their slack Grindcore feeling and, last but not least, the indifferent sound, the drum computer knocking and the tired singing . "
World politics and environmental pollution are taken up in the text. Bathory's record company Black Mark Production described the album as a "journey into the mind of a serial killer or a view of this world and this age" as it had not been before.
Reviews
According to Spermeth, “There's no sign of ingratiation on Octagon . The heart and not the cool calculating brain determines the music. And that's honest, at least down to the last drop of blood. So many bangers want an album like ' Blood, Fire, Death ' from BATHORY - but it doesn't come. Maybe the band will do something similar again, but only when they really feel like it, and not because the crowd demands it. Even if not everyone likes it, some swear by it: Fresh raw vegetables, picked straight from the tree, still covered with the dust of the country road. Rubbed off briefly and then into the gills. It couldn't be more down-to-earth. "
Frank Stöver from Voices from the Darkside and Kai Wendel from Rock Hard, on the other hand, wrote that Quorthon was damaging his reputation with releases like this and that the Kiss cover Deuce was the best piece on the album. Stöver complained that Octagon is ordinary Thrash Metal and not even well produced. Requiem and Octagon are the weakest Bathory releases ever, after which the album Blood on Ice was really necessary. Wendel also accused Quorthon of needing "[probably] [...] coal, there is no other way to explain the eighth regular long groove of his 'band' with the name of the bloodthirsty countess ". He described the publication as a “cheap rip-off” that “no one needs”; if "another bad output comes onto the market under the name BATHORY", he would also sell "the band's old records".
David Peter Wesolowski from Allmusic, in turn, described the album as possibly difficult to digest, even for metallers; most of the pieces are too chaotic, and the chaos and noise drowned the serious themes of some of the songs. Octagon is clearly for the toughest Bathory fans.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Roberto Martinelli: Bathory . In: Maelstrom , No. 12, accessed on September 22, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Kai Wendel: Bathory . Octagon . In: Rock Hard , No. 98, accessed September 22, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Marc Spermeth: Bathory . Octagon . In: Ablaze , No. 5, May / June 1995, p. 36.
- ↑ a b c David Peter Wesolowski: Octagon - Bathory , accessed September 22, 2013.
- ^ Bathory , accessed September 22, 2013.
- ^ A b Frank Stöver: Bathory . Octagon * CD '95 . In: Voices from the Darkside , No. 7, 1996, p. 22.
- ^ Frank Stöver: Bathory . Blood on ice . In: Voices from the Darkside , No. 9, 1996, p. 66.