Octagon (Bathory-Album)
Occupation
- Quorthon: vocals, guitar, bass
- Unnamed musician: drums
Octagon is the eighth album by the Swedish metal band Bathory. It was released in 1995 on Black Mark Production CD and Morbid Noizz Productions on MC.
Formation
Quorthon is assumed to have used a drum machine, he himself stated, however, to have recorded the album with a drummer. The album was recorded in the Hell Hole Studios, produced by Quorthon and mastered by Tom Mueller; Rex Luger supported the band as a sound engineer.
Title list
Music and lyrics by Quorthon, except specified.
Style of music and texts
Octagon continues the style of the previous album Requiem. A majority of the pieces is composed chaotic. According to Marc Spermeth from Ablaze " at least a dozen years back, without seeming antiquated " leads the album. The style is reminiscent " more like early SLAYER or VOIVOD than old BATHORY Publications ". Kai spiral from Rock Hard music compared also with Slayer and threw Quorthon of having "stolen articularly cheeky [b ] " at Century, " the condemned both by the vocal lines as well as by the structure and the chords for a cover version of, Mandatory Suicide ' sounds. Also the other pieces missing because of ' riffs, their flaccid Grindcore Feelings, and not least by the undifferentiated sound, the Drumcomputergeklopfe and the weary vocals borrowed any recognition. "
Lyrically, among other things, international politics, and pollution will be addressed. Bathory's record label Black Mark Production described the album as "Journey into the mind of a serial killer or a view of this world and this age ," as they have not previously given.
Reviews
According Spermeth is on Octagon " by pandering no trace. The heart and not the cool computing brain determines the music. And that's honest, at least until the last drop of blood. So many bangers want from an album like BATHORY, Blood, Fire, Death ' - but it does not come. Maybe the band does so again something similar, but only if it feels really after, and not because the mass demands it. Even if it does not taste any, some swear by it: Fresh raw vegetables, picked straight from the tree, still covered with the dust of the road. Rubbed off shortly and purely in the gills. Grassroots It can not get. "
Frank Stoever from Voices from the Darkside and Kai spiral of rock hard, however, wrote that Quorthon with releases like this shame his reputation and the Kiss Cover Deuce is the best song on the album. Stoever complained that Octagon vulgar Thrash Metal and was not even well-produced. Requiem and Octagon are the weakest Bathory releases at all, after which the album Blood on Ice was really necessary. Wendel threw Quorthon also before that he needed " [ w] ahrscheinlich [ ... ] coal, otherwise can the eighth regular -length album of his, band ' with the name of the bloodthirsty countess not explain ." He described the release as a "cheap rip-offs that are made up ," the " no man " need; if " still such a bad output comes under the name BATHORY on the market," he would " even the old discs of the band" sell.
David Peter Wesolowski of Allmusic, in turn, described the album as possibly even for metalheads difficult to digest; most of the pieces are too chaotic, and in the chaos and noise, the serious issues were some songs below. Octagon was clear for the toughest Bathory trailer.