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| Artist..: Judas Iscariot |
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| Album...: Thy Dying Light |
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| Genre...: Black Metal | Label...: Moribund Records |
| Year....: 1996 | Cat.No..: |
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| R.date..: 2023-06-24 | S.date..: 1996-00-00 |
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| Source..: WEB (16bit) | Encoder.: libFLAC |
| Bitrate.: 948 kbps avg. | F.Rate..: 44.1kHz |
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| http://deezer.com/album/8519823 |
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| 01. But Eternals Beheld His Vast Forest 7:59 |
| 02. His Eternal Life, Like a Dream Was Obliterated 9:15 |
| 03. Helpless It Lay, Like a Worm in His Frozen Tracks 10:53 |
| 04. Behold, Our Race of Unstoppable Genius 3:51 |
| 05. From the Woven Darkness Above 4:23 |
| 06. Writhing Upon the Wind of Mystic Philosophy and Dreams 4:44 |
| 07. They Saw His Pale Visage Emerge from the Darkness 4:27 |
| 08. Thy Dying Light, and Desolate Darkness 5:42 |
| 09. Arise, My Lord of Infernal Wisdom 0:37 |
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| American black metal band Judas Iscariot is, nowadays, the most famous act |
| in the U.S.A., even though they split-up on 2002. They have released |
| various demo tapes and EPs, a Live Album and six full lenghts. The one I'm |
| reviewing is their second effort, released in 1996, which is the same year |
| they released the debut album: a very prolific beginning. Akhenaten, the |
| leader of this one man band, has composed the music and has written all |
| the lyrics during the first half of 1996. He is a great fan of Darkthrone, |
| at least until Panzerfaust album. He plays a similar kind of music, very |
| simple to play yet hard to understand. |
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| Thy Dying Light has a unique atmosphere coming from the music: it's not |
| dark and haunting as albums like Heaven in Flames, it's more destructive |
| and cruel. While hearing this album you can almost smell the death, thus |
| see dead bodies on a desolate road. The artwork is not as good as the one |
| of Distant in Solitary Night, it's simpler and less good. It is a more |
| Burzum-like painting, with dead trees and a dark shadow walking, with a |
| distant shape of a church in the Distance. Musically, Thy Dying Light is |
| composed of 9 tracks and ends after 52 minutes, an almost 6 minutes |
| average per song. It's a quite long average in the black metal scene to be |
| honest I'd say, showing one of the most impressive quality of Akhenaten: |
| the songwriting. He uses a few riffs for each song, but each riff is good |
| and never seem ripetitive. |
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| The first three songs are the longest on the album, with a growing lenght: |
| the first song clocks after 8 minutes, the second one after 9 minutes and |
| the third one has a 11 minutes lenght. Impressive. Those songs are mostly |
| composed by mid-paced riffs, simple drum patterns and evil vocals. This is |
| another strong quality of Judas Iscariot: the vocals. Akhenaten roars, |
| growls, screams and howls to fit perfectly the lyrics and the atmosphere |
| of the songs. It's not a vocal-based music, but the vocal part has a major |
| role in the album. Still, there are killer riffs in this album, such as |
| track seven, They Saw His Pale Visage Emerge from the Darkness. This is |
| one of my favourite songs of the album. A Darkthrone anthem, with awesome |
| vocals and fast drumming. The tracks 4-7 are pretty similar in the form |
| and structure, with 2 riffs alternated with some slow-downs. Track eight |
| (the title track) is very reminescent from Burzum's early work: a melody |
| repeated on and on, on and on with some guitar addictions and keyboard |
| layers on the background. Very relaxing after the black metal fury of the |
| previous tracks. The album ends with a strange track, short and spoken. |
| Probably it's a summon, and in my opinion it is spoken backwards. |
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| This is a very important album in the U.S. black metal history and one of |
| the most precious gems of the second wave of black metal. I suggest to |
| hear it if you like black metal, and buy it, if you manage to find it. |
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