Prey (Album)
Occupation
- Johan Edlund - vocals, guitar, keyboard
- Thomas Petersson - Guitar
- Andreas Iwers - Bass
- Lars Sköld - drums
Prey is the eighth studio album by the metal band Tiamat. It was released in October 2003 on Century Media.
Formation and style
Also on Tiamat Prey played a mixture of slow Dark- rock songs and such an average pace with influences from other rock subgenres and some gothic metal elements. All pieces were written by Johan Edlund himself, only The Pentagram is a poem set to music by Aleister Crowley. The album was recorded in his own studio Edlund's The Temple of the Crescent Moon as well as the Modern Art Studios with engineer Sam Carpenter. Remixed it was of T.T. Oksala at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki. The pieces Cain and Divided appeared later as live versions as bonus tracks by The Scarred People. The female vocals on Carry Your Cross and I'll Carry Mine took Sonja Brandt.
Reception
The album reached No. 83 in Germany Tobias Blum wrote in the magazine Rock Hard, the album connect the " songwriting of the last two Tiamat works with the atmosphere of Wild Honey ". Especially Carry Your Cross And I'll Carry Mine he praised as " absolute highlight " of the album. His rating was eight out of ten. John Serba of the website Allmusic.com missed two out of five stars and described the album as "disappointing" and criticized the catchier songs as " awkward and forced ": " Dominated by big, droning chords, medium to crawling tempos, and Edlund 's clean, sub - Andrew Eldritch / Peter Steele croon, Prey drifts in a sea of contrived depression, and any ill-advised stabs at catchy songwriting - Wings of Heaven, Carry Your Cross and I'll Carry Mine -. clunky sound and reinforced "