Amanethes
Occupation
- Johan Edlund: vocals, guitar, keyboard
- Unlike Iwers: Bass
- Lars Skjöld: Drums
Amanethes is the ninth studio album by the Swedish band Tiamat. It was published in 2008 via Nuclear Blast.
Amanethes (actually amanedhes ) is the plural of the name amanes for a Greek music style whose roots are to go back to ancient Egyptian laments; It also is one of the first words in the Greek language, which saw Johan Edlund, the head of the band itself.
In contrast to previous albums, the band on Amanethes attacked again influences from extreme metal to where her early works were rooted.
Formation
Was Amanethes was first elected as a working title for the album, but " the longer we lived with it, the more clear that more than just a working title was. For the first time we had not agonize over how an album should be called, but this term was in our minds when we wrote the music, and he coined it. [ ... ] Amanethes stood like a question about the whole process of song - writing, we wanted to meet this word with life, not serve its clichés. On top of that you simply can not translate it, it is in a cultural context that has taken the music in some way. As some Greek influences are included -. Well as in the texts " However, it does not originate all the pieces from the period before Edlund move to Thessaloniki, but some still from the time when he lived in Hamburg and Berlin.
Except for the drums all tracks in Johan Edlund's home studio The Mansion were included in Thessaloniki; the drum tracks were recorded at Mega Studio in Stockholm, after bassist different Iwers "when trying on his brother (Peter, bassist of In Flames - Anm.dA ) to get the In Flames studio, was met with familiar silence." Mixing and mastering this album became Siggi Bemms Woodhouse Studios in Hagen.
Title list
All pieces of Johan Edlund, unless otherwise indicated.
Style of music and texts
After the development in the direction of dark rock Amanethes contains " again some hard, black metallic tracks ", but it attacks next to the aggressive vocals of earlier Tiamat works well on the famous gothic -influenced style, eastern sounds and keyboard melodies back. Robert Müller from Metal Hammer situate the band's style on Amanethes "somewhere between gothic rock, psychedelic and prog metal ."
As " [i ] n some ways [ ... ] all Tiamat albums" also carries Amanethes autobiographical elements, as well as the texts included due to the orientation on the title of the album " some Greek influences". On Robert Mueller whether " so that Johan in love happiness in Thessaloniki' album" this was, he answered, love is " a subject quite clear, however, in all its facets. But things are not always as concrete " The title Lucienne and Meliae were chosen for their sounds, the latter based on the Meliaden from Greek mythology. ; since these are descendants of Gaia, this piece should be what was on Gaia Wild Honey.
Reviews
Amanethes was panned by Rock-Hard - editor Wolf -Rüdiger Mühlmann. With reference to this slating Edlund expressed that he was " probably the only living fronting a Swedish black metal band from the eighties ", and thus he had " every right to write more black metal songs ". This could be different now perhaps better, but the text of The Equinox of the Gods had his conviction for " brilliant." Then he let " no other opinion about". Mühlmanns colleague Marcus Schleutermann wrote, "it is not, admittedly, quite to, Clouds ', ' Wild Honey ' or ' A Deeper Kind Of Slumber ' " even came close, but was " still a good album ." From " with his completely inappropriate stick drumming in fact thoroughly wayward, Equinox Of The Gods ' " apart he found " not a single stinker ".
In Metal Hammer Soundcheck album reached # 9 Matthias Mineur wrote, the new album shows " above all else: In Edlund's inner sanctum beats a Metal Heart, which occurs abundantly Gothic pumped into his veins, but the hard floor use and wadenbeißenden guitars as genetic Urveranlagung bears apparently in itself. [ ... ] In the camp of the record company is called precaution from a stylistic mixture of the previous six studio discs and hopes that Tiamat with Amanethes scare any potential buyer. The concern is unfounded: Who goes to such uncompromising works, will convince his fans in general - and as violently as to Amanethes were Tiamat for ten years no longer move " He gave the album five out of seven points.. His colleague Robert Müller wrote that those to whom Judas Christ and Prey not pledged, "does not demand in praise break " would, but for acceptance of the style of music on this album verzücke this " with an enormous musical range of expression - from the relentless hardness of a Equinox of The Gods 'to the perfectly staged heartbreak of, amanes .' " He forgave six points. Frank Thiessies compared the album " [v ] on mood and voice her anthemic and melodic- sacral " with The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, and Type O Negative, the band bubble but " all candlelight and patchouli with a Muff malmenden Metal Hurricane to Orcus. So it must be, "he also awarded five points.