Tiamat (Russia) - Sadness of Yggdrasil
This is not the Swedish Tiamat. This is a Russian band that is apparently unaware that the name Tiamat is already taken. In other words, they’ve been living under a rock since 1991. Honestly, a quick Google search is all it takes to discover that not only is there already a band out there called Tiamat, but they’ve been around for over twenty fucking years! As much as some people dislike Johan Edlund’s music these days, the Gothic Metal that the TRUE Tiamat is pumping out is ten million times better than this Russian pretender’s debut album. Sadness of Yggdrasil is horrible. The music is essentially generic Black Metal that is as bland and lifeless as you can get. I’ve heard every riff on this album somewhere before and none of said riffs get better after the hundredth time you hear them. Seriously, if I wanted to listen to recycled riffs from Under a Funeral Moon over and over again, I’d listen to Under a Funeral Moon. It’s not as if that album is out of print. The worst part is the vocals. Somewhere underneath layer upon layer of reverb is a howler monkey being tortured to death. It literally sounds like someone took a microphone into the monkey house at the fucking zoo and then added reverb. If this guy is saying any words, I’d be genuinely shocked. It’s incoherent animal noises as far as I’m concerned. And they’re annoyingly high pitched. Worse than that, the sheer amount of reverb has made the “vocals” so loud that they drown out the rest of the music. Add this to the boring lifelessness of the music itself and you get an album that just exists to irritate you. I wouldn’t even use this CD as a coaster because it’s unworthy of carrying the weight of a can of diet soda, let alone anything better.
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