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Tyrant is a Japanese black metal band who have been rather
quiet since they released their debut album "Under The Dark Mystic Sky" in
the year 1998 through Pulverised Records. With this second effort they found a
new home with the Dutch label Displeased Records who have also been dormant
for some time. Quite a few Japanese bands have found their way to Western
labels during the last decade such as Sigh, Ritual Carnage, Shadow and
Metalucifer to mention a few. Tyrant have been active since December of 1994
and have a female keyboard player who is very important to the band because
their music relies heavily on keyboard melodies and arrangements. Their brand
of black metal is very epic and majestic, almost like a movie soundtrack with
long songs and pompous keyboard arrangements. Due to the fact that they build
their music around the keyboards the other instruments are pushed far into the
background. Tyrant doesn't do the usual Dimmu Borgir or Cradle stuff though.
Instead they use their keyboards as another instrument and not just to support
the guitars. There are classically influenced sections but also more
bombastic, almost power metal sounding keyboards. With a larger recording
budget this Japanese band could go far I believe but unfortunately this album
sounds a little thin with monotonous drums and somewhat cheap sounding
keyboards at times. They have nonetheless found an interesting concept that
they should try to develop further.
| Tracklist |
1. Maze Of Inferno 2. |
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Erebus 3. Wargod 4. Knight In Black 5. Tears Of Purgatory |
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(Black Rain) 6. Phantasmagoria |
: 52.00
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