Sumerian Cry
Occupation
- Hellslaughter: rhythm and lead guitar, vocals
- Juck: E-Bass
- Emetic: lead and rhythm guitar
- Najse: Drums
Sumerian Cry is the debut album of the Swedish metal band Tiamat.
Formation
Some of the songs were written when the participating members were active under the name Treblinka. 1989 left Emetic and Najse Auschwitz Treblinka, to focus on their other band Expulsion while Hellslaughter under the new name of Tiamat was still active. However, both still had a part in the recording of the debut. While Daniel Ekeroth of a change of name is mentioned and also the former member itch so this looks, Megalomaniac Productions Treblinka known as Edlund's first band, and Edlund himself said, Treblinka had nothing to do with Tiamat. Some tracks recorded under the name Treblinka were re-recorded for Tiamat's debut album Sumerian Cry. The recordings took place in October 1989 in the Sunlight studio and paid for by the band itself. Sumerian Cry is the first captured in the Sunlight studio album by the Swedish death metal scene before the classics of Entombed and Carnage, but remained unpublished until April 1990 and was produced in contrast to the later typical Sunlight recordings by the band itself. The band was from C.M.F.T. " Ripped off ".
Title list
Style of music and texts
The album differs greatly from most contemporary Swedish bands and did not sound like Entombed or Carnage and also did not like Merciless. Basically Sumerian Cry Treblinka continues way. Musically it is "clearly Death Metal, with a meaty sound and Edlund's deep, growling vocals." The appearance of the band, the resulting atmosphere and the " dark and mysterious lyrics " bring the band in the vicinity of Black Metal; for Ekeroth however, "any atmosphere that could have been created, ruined by the Blues Passage and the ridiculous cartoon sampling at the end of the record. Back then it was at Metal fun. " Style is primitive as Hellslaughter himself said.
Reviews
Frank Albrecht called the album in Rock Hard magazine as "catastrophic produced " and the songs as " only partially audible, the texts mega embarrassing and the drum work ridiculous ". After the release of two new songs on the sampler Eyes of Death prefer " to the band's name by publishing this disk into the dirt ," and the album reflecting " nowhere near the current standard of this Swedish band". In his critique to succeed The Astral Sleep he wrote that the band had " much worse than on their debut disc, Sumerian Cry ' [ ... ] really not " can, but the sequel was a " real surprise ", and that he had of the band " a full-length album of this caliber [ ... ] now certainly does not expect". In Slayer fanzine, however, the LP was called great. According Ekeroth the album shows the limited talent of the band, which did not precisely be able to play, but he and others in the scene would have loved the album and respected Tiamat. In 2009, the Rock Hard Album in its list of " 250 Black Metal albums you should know " on.