TIAMAT

Release Year: 2006
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: dark menacing atmospheric death metal

moving rapidly across the stylistic corridors in early era, adding a new drummer and guitar player after recording the debut longplay, also joining the fast growing German label that gave them an opportunity to record in Dortmund's Woodhouse studio, with their second full-length album in 1991 Tiamat have already drifted away from entire barrage of downtuned Swedish death metal scene, evolving much more atmospheric and epic direction in still evidently raw underground context, eventually to be developed into yet more original sound - the end result is pretty deep, full of hypnotizing arrangements and diverse vocals, yet fundamentally menacing and still fitting the ferocious metal formula, granting the world such immortal classics as Mountain of Doom or Ancient Entity; recent European edition comes with authentic design, foldout poster-like booklet and two bonuses from rare A Winter Shadow vinyl EP [1990]