Tiamat - Sumerian Cry

[batmura]

As a long-time Tiamat fan, I'd never checked out their debut. I always knew it was a very different record, but only after hearing it could I really see what everyone was talking about.

This is a strange marriage of blackened death metal with low, very low growls. It's hard to label it as just death metal or black, cause it shares elements from both genres. The recording is filthy and suffocating. Johan Edlund just sounds like a different singer here.

Someone said Sumerian Cry was his favourite Swedish death metal album along with Therion's second album... I guess I can see why.

What does everyone else think of this disc?

 

[Don Corleone]

i used to be crazy about tiamat (the first metal gig i went to was tiamat's istanbul gig in 2000) and i still frequently listen to a deeper kind of slumber, wildhoney (which are, i believe, milestones) and occasionally clouds and the astral sleep...but never further than those.

 

[biggsy]

checking out wild honey right now, pretty neat stuff. anyone else into this band?

 

[Don Corleone]

dont forget to check out a deeper kind of slumber. beware, though, it's not a metal album.

 

[biggsy]

what does that mean!? i listen to more than metal don!

 

[Chinese Whispers]

Wildhoney is the only Tiamat I am familiar with beside some of the early Treblinka stuff, and lets face it, Wildhoney isn't exactly completely metal at any rate.

 

[Don Corleone]

what does that mean!? i listen to more than metal don!

:Smug: i didnt mean what you think
just wanted to let you know beforehand that it's not a metal album. but im 100% sure you'll enjoy it

 

[Chinese Whispers]

:Smug: i didnt mean what you think

Yeah Biggsy. No one cares what you think

 

[biggsy]

:Smug: i didnt mean what you think
just wanted to let you know beforehand that it's not a metal album. but im 100% sure you'll enjoy it

the way you put it in italics had me worried for a sec

and everyone cares, im important

did check out wildhoney and its really really nice. should be getting a few spins for the next week or so, then ill try out deeper kind of slumber.

 

[Hippy Dippy Weatherman]

I just started listening to them almost a week ago,and I do say,I like their material.