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TIAMAT is without doubt one of the most interesting metal bands of our times.

Formed in 1989 as a Death Metal band, the Swedes never cared about any genre conventions, making the first albums ("Sumerian Cry", "The Astral Sleep" and "Clouds") very inventive and special. TIAMAT included keyboards, choirs, clean guitars and haunting melodies, giving the music some Gothic approach. In 1994, the band released a very courageous album: "Wildhoney". To this day, this record is a real classic with it's own unique atmosphere. Even though this really experimental album can hardly be labeled as metal, the band gained very much respect in the scene - leading to high chart positions (29) in Germany and other countries.

After three years of silence and the parting with bassist and co-writer Johnny Hagel, TIAMAT mastermind Johan Edlund created his very own vision with the groundbreaking album "A Deeper Kind Of Slumber". This record seemed like an up to date, modern version of PINK FLOYD including electronica, dub and trip hop, mixed with metal guitars and unique sound carpets. Some fans had their problems with this masterpiece, but they also had to admit that the album is sort of untouchable, because it's so mature and intelligent, that it leaves you stunned.

1999s "Skeleton Skeletron" (19 in Germany) was again an outstanding album with a style that nobody could expect: Straight (Gothic)-Rock with majestic and epic songs. The sound was more reduced, not filled with electronica, but still experimental and for sure fascinating and exciting. "Judas Christ" was even more reduced and to the point, including some dark folk and NICK CAVE influences to the really heavy rock-costume of the record. "Prey", released only one year later, took the style of "Judas Christ" even further and managed to include some old-school feeling to the songs, making it maybe their strongest record since "A Deeper Kind Of Slumber".

After "Prey", it became silent in the TIAMAT camp. But if you listen to "Amanethes", the newest effort of the band, it becomes evident, that these five years were really worth the wait.

"Amanethes", produced in Johan Edlund's studio The Mansion, mixed in Woodhouse Studios by Siggi Bemm, is really interesting, because TIAMAT managed to bulid a colossus streaking the whole history of the Band. This album has it..s "Clouds", enjoys "Wildhoney" and knows for sure "A Deeper Kind Of Slumber", but at the same time, the songs can rock like on "Skeleton Skeletron" or "Judas Christ". This album ist not a compromise, it..s the essence of TIAMAT – and it will for sure bring the band to another level and back in the minds of every metalhead!

"Amanethes" is by far the most sophisticated and diverse TIAMAT album. If you only buy one cd in 2008, it should be this one. Honestly." Markus Laakso / Inferno (FIN)
Latest Data From Band Tiamat :
Genre:
    Gothic Metal / Death Metal
Line Up :
    Anders Iwers (Bass)
    Johan Edlund (Guitars, 

    Vocals and Keys)
    Lars Sköld (Drums)
Label Records :
    Nuclear Blast Records 

Country :
    Stockholm, Sweden
Tracklist:

Side A: A Winter Shadow
Side B: Ancient Entity
Tracklist:

1. Lady Temptress
2. Mountain Of Doom
3. Dead Boys' Choir
4. Sumerian Cry (part III)
5. On Golden Wings
6. Ancient Entity
7. The Southernmost Voyage
8. Angels Far Beyond
9. I Am The King (of dreams)
10. A Winter Shadow (cd bonus track)
Tracklist:

1. Wildhoney
2. Whatever That Hurts
3. The Ar
4. 25th Floor
5. Gaia
6. Visionaire
7. Kaleidoscope
8. Do You Dream Of Me?
9. Planets
10. A Pocket Size Sun

Tracklist:

1. Brighter Than The Sun (edit)
2. Sympathy For The Devil
3. Children Of The Underworld
4. Brighter Than The Sun

Tracklist:

1. Church Of Tiamat
2. Brighter Than The Sun
3. Dust Is Our Fare
4. To Have And Have Not
5. For Her Pleasure
6. Diyala
7. Sympathy For The Devil
8. Best Friend Money Can Buy
9. As Long As You Are Mine
10. Lucy

Tracklist:

1. For Her Pleasure (edit)
2. Lucy (Element & The Short Romans remix)
3. Brighter Than The Sun (Tarsis remix)
4. As Long As You Are Mine (Mathias Lodmalm remix)

Tracklist:

1. Vote For Love (edit)
2. So Much For Suicide
3. Cold Last Supper

Tracklist:

1. Cain
2. Ten Thousand Tentacles
3. Wings Of Heaven
4. Love In Chains
5. Divided
6. Carry Your Cross And I'll Carry Mine
7. Triple Cross
8. Light In Extension
9. Prey
10. The Garden Of Heathen
11. Clovenhoof
12. Nihil
13. The Pentagram
Tracklist:

1. Where The Serpents Ever Dwell
2. On Golden Wings
3. Ancient Entity
4. The Sleeping Beauty
5. A Caress Of Stars
6. Whatever That Hurts
7. Gaia
8. Cold Seed
9. Phantasma De Luxe
10. Brighter Than The Sun
11. As Long As You Are Mine
12. The Return Of The Son Of Nothing
13. Vote For Love
14. Cain
15. Wings Of Heaven
16. Divided (edit)
Tracklist:

1. The Temple Of The Crescent Moon
2. Equinox Of The Gods
3. Until The Hellhounds Sleep Again
4. Will They Come?
5. Lucienne
6. Summertime Is Gone
7. Katarraktis Apo Aima
8. Raining Dead Angels
9. Misantropolis
10. Amanitis
11. Meliae
12. Via Dolorosa
13. Circles
14. Amanes