Eschaton (album)

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Eschaton
Studio album by Anaal Nathrakh
Released	October 16, 2006
Genre	Black metal
Length	35:23
Label	Season of Mist
Anaal Nathrakh chronology
Domine Non Es Dignus (2004) Eschaton (2006) Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here (2007)

Eschaton is the third album by British post-black metal band Anaal Nathrakh. Musically, the album continues in the direction of the previous album, Domine Non Es Dignus, moving further away from the chaotic, wall-of-noise grindcore excursions of The Codex Necro, into simpler verse-chorus song structures with occasional clean vocals and more melodic riffs. However most reviewers (digitalmetal.com, Terrorizer magazine and so on) have commented that the overall atmosphere and production are at the same time a step back towards the out-and-out ferocity of the band's debut. The music is still intense, featuring hyperfast drum machine blast beats and V.I.T.R.I.O.L.'s harsh vocals.

The album is also significant in featuring significant guest appearances by Shane Embury (Embryonymous) on bass and Attila Csihar on vocals, the latter offering vocal work on the track "Regression To The Mean", according to the accompanying booklet.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes" - 03:16
2. "Between Shit and Piss We Are Born" - 03:54
3. "Timewave Zero" - 03:01
4. "The Destroying Angel" - 03:11
5. "Waiting for the Barbarians" - 04:46
6. "The Yellow King" - 04:54
7. "When the Lion Devours Both Dragon and Child" - 04:57
8. "The Necrogeddon" - 04:11
9. "Regression to the Mean" - 03:12

[edit] Trivia

• The sample "Kill everybody in the whole world!" from the intro of "The Destroying Angel" is clipped from the British comedy series Blackadder II.

• The sample "Drive deeper the thorn," at the start of "The Necrogeddon" is Sam Neill as Damien in the film Omen III: The Final Conflict.

• The background on the album's cover art is a sample of the Mandelbrot set.

• One of the cryptic quotations in the liner notes ("I suspect you would rather not hear these details..." etc.) is from Robert W. Chambers' novella The King in Yellow. It's probable that this book also inspired the title of Track 6.

• "Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes" is Latin for "the war of all against all", which is described by philosopher Thomas Hobbes in the book Leviathan as the natural state of humanity.

• The Eschaton is the end of time.

• Timewave Zero is an obscure eschatological prediction from numerology and mathematics. It coincides with the Mayan date for the end of the world on the 21st of December, 2012, which can be discerned within the song.

• The Destroying Angel is another name of the angel of death from the book of Exodus. The track opens with "SOS" in Morse code.

• The lyrics for the track "When Lion Devours Both Dragon and Child" are largely taken from Book of Job chapter 10.