Tiamat (band)

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Tiamat
Tiamat on Hard Rock Laager, 2006
Background information
Origin Stockholm, Sweden
Genre(s) Early Career:
Gothic metal
Black metal
Progressive metal
Current Career:
Goth rock
Symphonic metal
Years active 1988 – present
Label(s) Century Media
Website http://www.churchoftiamat.com/
Members
Johan Edlund
Thomas Petersson
Anders Iwers
Lars Sköld


Tiamat is a band from Sweden that was formed in Stockholm, in 1988. Their music can generally be considered doom metal, but the actual classification of the style varies with each album.

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Biography

Initially, the band played straightforward death metal under the name Treblinka. They split up in 1989, leaving vocalist and guitarist Johan Edlund as the band's sole member. Edlund subsequently changed the name to Tiamat.

After Sumerian Cry (which was the first Tiamat album, but written while under the name Treblinka), Edlund's leadership modified the sound with moody, atmospheric textures and vocals that would attribute them (along with Samael and Rotting Christ) as one of the starters of dark metal and symphonic black metal. [citation needed]

1994's critically acclaimed Wildhoney mixed death growls, slow guitar riffs and synthesizer sounds which sounded different from other symphonic black metal bands active at that time. An almost continuous forty-minute piece of music, Wildhoney was considered to be a landmark release in the field of extreme metal, preceding many of the trends that would be repeated throughout the genre throughout the next decade. [citation needed]

Upon the release of A Deeper Kind of Slumber (1997), 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 melodic sound, quite different from the extreme music they did in the years before, with recent albums showing a Sisters of Mercy influence.

The band is currently signed to Century Media Records.

Line-up

Discography

See also

External links

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