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REVIEW: Siebenbürgen - Plagued Be Thy Angel
Napalm Records, 2001
Marcus Ehlin and his
vampire friends of Siebenbürgen have yet again created a great album worthy of
praise. The album starts off with some kind of intro that ends with a female
voice saying: "If I show you heaven, you must show me hell". These songs do
however contain more of hell than heaven even though Siebenbürgen seem to have
a weird obsession with angels and all kinds of nightly events. This Swedish
band is still on the rise and their last album "Delictum" showed great
progress compared to their earlier workds. This time the progress is less
notable but all the band's trademarks are still here - the nightly
atmosphere, the elaborate male growling, the soft female vocals and a great
mix between black metal and more straight-forward heavy metal influences.
"Plagued Be Thy Angel" continues in the same vein as their previous release
but they are still different from each other. The guitarwork is now more
complex and so are the song structures. This is also the last album to feature
the former members Linus Ekström and Kicki Höijertz who decided to leave the
band right after the recordings of this album. The production is very powerful
and the vocals are perhaps slightly better than last time. Altogether they
manage to maintain the same quality as before which is not that common these
days. Siebenbürgen remain as one of the leading Swedish black metal bands.
They have created a unique sound of their own and there is still no other band
like them.
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1. Exordium |
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2. Plagued Be Thy Angel 3. Destination Supremacy 4. Father |
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Of All Lies 5. The Night Alit 6. Angelic 7. For The Ones |
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Who Sleep 8. Skändat Sinne 9. The Roses Bleed At Night |
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10. As Black As A Midnight Heart 11. Her Shadows Adored 12. |
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Deliverance Bonustrack, limited edition: 13. |
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Jawbreaker |
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