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Artist......: Craven Idol
Album.......: The Shackles of Mammon
Year........: 2017
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Dark Descent Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (16bit)
Quality.....: 1026kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 8 tracks
Playtime....: 00:45:06
Size........: 330.1 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-06-12
S.Date......: 2017-04-14
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/t75cj813hraca
01. Pyromancer 2:33
02. A Ripping Strike 5:23
03. Black Flame Divination 3:41
04. The Trudge 7:45
05. Dashed to Death 5:54
06. Mammon Est 5:16
07. Hunger 5:56
08. Tottering Cities of Men 8:37
London's premium metal force Craven Idol unleash their
second album of ruthless first wave blackened thrash in
the vein of early Bathory, Gospel Of The Horns, Manilla
Road, and Inquisiton.
After four years of toil, the U.K. four-piece present:
The Shackles Of Mammon, an uncompromising and unique
blend of tag-less extreme metal from the early days of
horrible hellnoise. Inspirations are many; Be it heavy
metal Gods such as Mercyful Fate, Candlemass, Sortilege
or Manilla Road; Early pioneers like Poison (Ger),
Samael, Razor, Bathory, Venom; Pretenders to the throne
like Gospel Of The Horns, D666, Inquisiton... But don't
be fooled - this is no tribute act. Recorded at
Birmingham's Priority Studios and engineered by
Esoteric's Greg Chandler (and mastered by Dan Lowndes at
Resonance Sound), The Shackles Of Mammon boasts an old
school production as well as Craven Idol's most fierce
and varied songs to date.
The album boasts artwork by the extraordinarily twisted
Daniel Corcuera. The artist's powerful take on Sascha
Schneider's 1896 wood carving 'Mammon und sein Sklave'
is a striking work of art.
Lyrically the album deals with the vices of man, the
plagues they unleashed upon themselves, and the
rationalisation of its own actions - be it in tragedy or
ruin - through the creation of deities and cults. Mammon
the - Demon of Avarice - reigns above all, whilst the
black arts and countless religions seek to justify human
failure.