TIAMAT — Prey

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3.46 | 13 ratings | 2 reviews
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Album · 2003

Filed under Gothic Metal
By TIAMAT

Tracklist


1. Cain (5:25)
2. Ten Thousand Tentacles (1:34)
3. Wings of Heaven (4:32)
4. Love in Chains (4:24)
5. Divided (5:18)
6. Carry Your Cross and I'll Carry Mine (4:37)
7. Triple Cross (1:21)
8. Light in Extension (4:46)
9. Prey (3:31)
10. The Garden of Heathen (1:25)
11. Clovenhoof (4:54)
12. Nihil (6:09)
13. The Pentagram (7:19)

Total Time: 55:21

Line-up/Musicians


- Johan Edlund / Vocals, Guitars
- Thomas Petersson / Guitars
- Anders Iwers / Bass
- Lars Sköld / Drums

Guest/Session:
- Sonja Brandt / Vocals (additonal)

About this release

Century Media Records, October 27th, 2003

A video was made for an edited version of 'Cain', directed by Patric Ullaeus for Revolver Film Company AB.

All music and lyrics by Johan Edlund except for track 13 (lyrics by Aleister Crowley, copyright Ordo Templi Orientis).

Recorded at The Temple of the Crescent Moon.
Additionally recorded at Modern Art Studios.
Mixed and mastered at Finnvox Studios.

Thanks to UMUR for the updates

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UMUR
"Prey" is the eighth full-length studio album by Swedish metal act Tiamat. The album was released through Century Media Records in October 2003. It´s the successor to "Judas Christ" from 2002 and features the same quartet lineup as the predecessor plus guest female backing vocals by Sonja Brandt.

Stylistically the material on "Prey" are a continuation of the goth rock/metal style of "Judas Christ (2002)". The psychadelic Pink Floyd influences which already decreased greatly on the predecessor are now only present on album closer "The Pentagram", which features a nice mellow psychedelic rock sound and some soaring Gilmourish guitar leads. The remaining tracks range from heavy and hard rocking to mid-paced, slow, and laid back gothic tinged rock/metal. Lead vocalist/guitarist/keyboard player Johan Edlund doesn´t have the most distinct sounding voice, but his delivery is pleasant and suits the music well. The tracks are well composed, relatively catchy, and feature a melancholic atmosphere. It´s not dark and depressive music, but rather a tasteful and melodic melancholic take on goth rock/metal. Similar artists would be contemporary Paradise Lost and maybe Anathema.

"Prey" is packed in a powerful, detailed, and well sounding production job, which suits the material perfectly, and upon conclusion it´s another high quality release by Tiamat. If you enjoyed the last couple of albums this is not to be missed. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
Warthur
Tiamat's Prey is another album from the band's full-blooded goth rock period, with their earlier death metal sound being entirely extinguished. Occasional diversions to metal territory don't get much more metallic than, say, a fairly mild Marilyn Manson track, but the band's command of the occult-tinged gloom rock format is impressive and it's a worthwhile listen for those who dig Fields of the Nephilim and other goth bands who could go full metal if they wanted to but who steer in a different direction most of the time, though at the same time it doesn't really offer anything particularly novel or surprising or groundbreaking which fans of this style of gothic music wouldn't have heard before from a dozen different releases. Still, any fan of occult rock would dig an album which closes with a seven-minute meditation on the pentagram, right?

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