Believe it or not, there was a time when TIAMAT was relevant. It was a time before this:
Or this:
Just to dispel any unnecessary speculation, that time was 1990. The relevant album in question was indeed their Swedeath opus Sumerian Cry, which, for the record (no pun intended) was the first full-length to be recorded at Sunlight Studios in Stockholm (Left Hand Path, No Canonization, and Dark Recollections were all recorded there in the following four months). So believe it or not, this horrible band was once really good and actually kind of important in the overall history of Swedish Death Metal. Weird, right?
Maybe we'll talk about Treblinka at some point, too. Maybe not.
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They sound like the metal Sisters of Mercy now
Say, I like this. WTF?
Great album! Funny, I was considering posting something on this but you beat me to it. Ha!
Astral Sleep is the superior early Tiamat album. And all up to and including 'Wildhoney' they were groundbreaking and very important to then nascent 'scenes' of atmospheric metal around Europe. Much of the worst popular mainstream metal of today start with a 'Wildhoney' influence, alas.
Not as much into Astral Sleep or Clouds... It must be a Europe/America thing, haha.
Tell me you don't feel the power of "Ancient Entity".
Uh oh. This feels like that whole "that part in Rush 2112 where the guy finds the guitar under the waterfall and starts tuning it" discussion all over again...
BUT IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL
"Wild Honey" is the doo-doo.
"in the shrines of the kingly dead" is a good song. really, really good.
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