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Tiamat (Music)
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Tiamat is a Swedish metal band, considered one of the pioneers of both Gothic Metal and Progressive Death Metal.Formed in 1988 as Treblinka, they changed their name to Tiamat in 1989 and released their debut album, Sumerian Cry, in 1990. After the release of this album (which was straight-up Death Metal), frontman Johan Edlund gradually changed the band's style, adding influences from Mercyful Fate, Candlemass, Pink Floyd and King Crimson, eventually culminating in Wildhoney, which was universally acclaimed for its mix of Progressive Rock and extreme metal (signalling the birth of a new subgenre pioneered by bands like Opeth).After the release of A Deeper Kind of Slumber, Edlund relocated from Sweden to Germany and declared himself the only permanent member of the band; all albums that would follow would cement the band into a more gothic rock sound, quite different from the extreme music they did in the years before, with recent albums showing a The Sisters of Mercy influence. | |
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Gaia's Lament | |
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Gaia's Lament/Gaia's Vengeance: "Gaia" - it's right there in the title. Also qualifies as a Green Aesop, obviously. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: Death metal to progressive metal to gothic metal/rock. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Depending on one's tastes, Johan was quite the sex symbol in the band's early days (the fact that he often performed shirtless helped...). Photographic evidence◊. | |
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Watch It Stoned | |
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Watch It Stoned: Most, if not all, of the band's output was heavily influenced by drugs. | |
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Tick Tock Tune | |
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Tick Tock Tune: The beginning of the song Prey. | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: Clouds closes with "Undressed" (7:10). Wildhoney closes with "A Pocket Size Sun" (8:04) Prey closes with "The Pentagram" (7:20). | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Johan. He often performs on live concerts this way. | |
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Progressive Metal | |
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Progressive Metal: Mainly Wildhoney, but it's still there on the other albums (excluding Sumerian Cry, which is straight-up old-school death metal). Progressive Death Metal: Once again, mainly Wildhoney. One of the first bands to mix prog rock and death metal. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: Wildhoney opens with lyrics about jimsonweed and psilocybin mushrooms and ends with lyrics about LSD, just in case anyone was curious if the band had any chemical inspirations when writing the music. (For those unfamiliar, all three can be used as hallucinogens.) | |
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Three Chords and the Truth | |
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Three Chords and the Truth: Some songs (Prey is a good example) are quite simple in structure. | |
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Love Is Like Religion | |
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Love Is Like Religion: "Wings Of Heaven". | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: The stereo separation on Wildhoney is pretty trippy at times. | |
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Death Metal | |
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Death Metal: Early material. Black Metal: Very early material (when the band name was Treblinka). | |
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Non-Appearing Title: So prevalent in their music that it would be easier to list the songs in which there IS a Title Drop. | |
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Bungled Suicide | |
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Bungled Suicide: Played for very dark laughs in "So Much For Suicide" | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "A Pocket Sized Sun", "Undressed", "Mount Marilyn", "The Pentagram". The entire Wildhoney album could count as well, seeing as it's pretty much one continuous piece of music, with the only break being in-between the songs "Gaia" and "Visionaire". | |
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Siamese Twin Songs | |
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Siamese Twin Songs: While all of Wildhoney uses Fading into the Next Song (apart from the break between album sides), the transition between "Whatever That Hurts" and "The Ar" is subtle enough that if you weren't listening for it, you probably wouldn't even notice they were separate songs. | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: Johan Edlund has been the only constant member of Tiamat. | |
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Black Metal | |
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Black Metal: Very early material (when the band name was Treblinka). | |
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Creepy Children Singing | |
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Creepy Children Singing: At the end of "Equinox of the Gods". | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Gothic Metal: Later material. | |
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Must Have Caffeine | |
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Must Have Caffeine: Johan Edlund, according to some interviews. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: They all have their quirks, but Johan Edlund stands out a bit more in this case. Case in point: when he composed a song for Ayreon, he sent it to Arjen Lucassen by humming the melody into his phone, while the answering machine was recording the message. He also claims to have jumped out a two story window, while being high on mushrooms and says that it was the happiest moment of his life (because the window wasn't so high up and he was relieved he didn't die). | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Judas Christ, much to some fans' dismay. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones, "Sleeping (in the Fire)" by W.A.S.P. (Band), "Born to Die" by Lana Del Rey. | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song: "Wings Of Heaven" mixes Love Is Like Religion and Intercourse with You with a bit of this: | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: "Phantasma de Luxe" and "Mount Marilyn" are particularly notable examples. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: For a band known as a death metal band at the time, Wildhoney likely came as a surprise, as about half of it is Progressive Rock without any screaming or guitar distortion. This hasn't stopped the album from receiving a uniformly rapturous reception among audiences; it's the one album that fans of the band's old and new material can agree upon. This trope became less applicable to their later material, as these kinds of songs became more typical of the band's style. | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: Most of them fall under this category. | |
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Soprano and Gravel | |
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Soprano and Gravel: Occasionally. "Brighter Than the Sun" is a good example, as is "Carry Your Cross..." Wildhoney has vocals that are about half sung and half screamed, though some are also in a strange mixture of screaming and singing (most of the vocals for "Visionaire" fall into this category). On the whole, more of the second side of the LP is more sung and more of the first side is screamed, but it's not 100% on either side. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: used a lot in Wildhoney and somewhat in Amanethes. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: A lot of their lyrics are about this. "Teonanacatl". The song's name means "Flesh of the Gods" and is what the Aztecs called hallucinogenic mushrooms. "Whatever That Hurts" mentions psilocybin mushrooms and jimsonweed. "A Pocket Size Sun" is about an LSD trip. | |
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ProgressiveDeathMetal | |
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Progressive Death Metal: Once again, mainly Wildhoney. One of the first bands to mix prog rock and death metal. | |
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