불멸의 사타닉/아방가르드 메틀 걸작이자 블랙/고딕 메틀의 원형을 담고 있는 시대를 초월한 명반! 정적과 비밀의 세계로 음악적 영토를 확장하여 어둠의 아름다움을 드러내 주었던 파격적인 실험집단 셀틱 프로스트의 2집 앨범으로, 공포감이 감도는 거칠고 원초적인 사운드가 전위적인 시도들과 맞물리면서 90년대 Black, Doom Death 의 원형을 창출해낸 명작!
에이리언의 창조자 H.R Giger의 커버 아트와 상응하는 불길한 스래쉬 리프들이 불안감을 조성하는 음들로 연결된 “The Usurper", “Jewel Throne"은 원초적이고 야만적인 데쓰메틀의 원형을 선보이고 있으며, 건조한 디스토션 파열음과 함께 혼돈과 공포를 조성하는 그로테스크한 스트링이 위력적인 명곡 “Dawn of Meggido", 소프라노와 스트링, 팀파니를 통해 이루어진 장엄한 무드를 바탕으로 변칙적인 리프들과 음향들을 배합하여 분열적인 둠 사운드를 조성한 ”Necromantical Screams", 오비추어리가 커버하기도 했으며 블랙/둠과 데쓰메틀이 횡적으로 결합한 "Circle Of The Tyrants"는 결코 간과할 수 없는 불멸의 명곡들이다. .... ....
Lend me your steel-bearing hand So I may reign the Jewel Throne My soul feels the gods' demand As the lost kings uphold my side
Blood and sand Mark their way The usurper's tears Guide my sword
Fantasia slept in my thoughts As I was a son of infinity The emperor, forgotten, rests in my dreams As, back to the wall, I start the conquest
Innocence and wrath Now lie far beyond As we cross the deserts To reach the fortress gates
Tragical serenades Are whispered in the wind As eyes in fury Grant us our strength
(They're) throning on the dignity of might But the successor is to enter the hall False truth saw them climbing the steps But I remain the Jewel Throne's choice
Once prayed to my gods, searching for the whistled memories Empty eyes are staring now, to my feet a land of sorrow I'm the king, sitting in the dark, hiding from the shadows of the wind Wafts of might, wine of fire, I was called to taste
Silver horses brought us here, to the edge of the universe We left the falling walls as the stars' collapse began Now I rest on the highest steps, revealed the eternal frontier As I gaze from the Jewel Throne to the portal of infinity
Fallen have the "chosen ones", debris remain in the dust Far behind, beyond the sands, the wind sings to those who fell Forever now, my hands laid down the poisoned weapons I will pray to my gods, searching for the mysteries
The pyramids tremble, darken the sun, (the) sky tums red They reached the wall of no return (and the) breeze has stopped Who wore the crown will never be known - might is broken For all we'll drown into the sand - what will remain?
Inverted horizons, denied truth and blinded eyes The titans arise, the monuments fall, we cannot halt Wishful pleads at last came true, some always knew The clouds burn - or is it fire? ... the gods wince
Human pride and megalomania, the titans watched it all The trace led to nowhere, wrath had to come As ushers at the gates, to ecstasy and excess AII turn their backs, they won't give us any rest
(The) fires won't redeem, illuminated's the night - the eternal summer When they came high from the sphere on shrieking wings... Now they're trapped to the ground, to heat and dust And the eye is glowing above...