The Jilemnice Occultist
| The Jilemnice Occultist | ||||
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| Studio album by Master's Hammer | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Black metal | |||
| Length | 50:55 | |||
| Language | Czech | |||
| Label | Osmose | |||
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Jilemnický Okultista (English: The Jilemnice Occultist) is the second studio album by Czech black metal band Master's Hammer. It was released in 1992, through Osmose Productions. It is a concept album.
Background
The Jilemnice Occultist is misspelled as The Filemnice Occultist on several pressings, due to the type-setting on the album. Despite the track listing being in English, all the lyrics are in Czech. The original release contained the Czech titles.
Plot
The main characters of this operetta are a student of the occult, a beautiful witch and the Duke of the Jilemnice Castle. There's a kind-of love triangle going on, coupled with some magical and spiritual manifestations and the disgrace of various secondary parties.
Musical style
In Kerrang!, Master's Hammer's style was described as "fusing thrash with classical themes", and The Jilemnice Occultist was called "an operetta in three acts".[1] Götz Kühnemund from German Rock Hard magazine compared the concept album The Jilemnice Occultist to King Diamond, though Master's Hammer's style was described as "considerably more uncompromising". The vocals were described as "like a mixture of deep King Diamond voices and Quorthon's guttural grunts".[2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Original Czech titles | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ouverture" | "Overture" | 1:42 | |
| 2. | "Among the Hills a Winding Way..." | "Mezi Kopci Cesta Je Klikatá..." | 5:10 | |
| 3. | "I Don't Want, Sirs to Pester..." | "Já Nechci Mnoho Trápiti..." | 6:05 | |
| 4. | "A Dark Forest Spreads All Around..." | "Kol Prostíra Se Temný Les..." | 5:11 | |
| 5. | "That Magnificent Deer Has Vanished..." | "Ten Dvanácterák Zmizel V Houští..." | 3:32 | |
| 6. | "My Captain" | "Můj Hejtmane..." | 5:30 | |
| 7. | "By the Misery of Fate I'm Haunted..." | "Já Mizérií Osudu Jsem Pronásledován..." | 4:46 | |
| 8. | "Oh, My Precious Sir..." | "Ach Pane Vzácný..." | 3:54 | |
| 9. | "Everything That Just on My Whim..." | "Že Vše Jen Podle Mého Přani..." | 4:25 | |
| 10. | "Glory, Herr Hauptmann...!" | "Sláva, Sláva, Sláva, Pane Hejtmane!" | 4:47 | |
| 11. | "Sucharda's Home" | "Suchardův Dům (V Nové Pace)" | 5:53 |
Critical reception
Kühnemund lauded the band's unusual style and the album's "[u]nexpectedly good" production that "never lets faster chipping passages degenerate into awful chaos". He called The Jilemnice Occultist "one of the most extraordinary death metal albums of the year".[2]
References
- ↑ Barrett, Lee (March 1993). "The Black Metal Directory". Kerrang! 27 (436): 46.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kühnemund, Götz. "Master's Hammer. The Jilemnice Occultist". Rock Hard (73). Retrieved 24 September 2012.