It’s hard to believe that it is almost five years since these symphonic metallers last graced these pages, but now they are preparing to regale us with ‘Tales From The Dark’ via the release of their new album, with the first story to be told being that of the ‘Prophetess Of Dreams’.
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The title of this album is just how Monk likes his steak, with the blood still pumping through its veins and enough meat and gristle on the bone to keep him chewing rather than just biting in and gulping it down. In this regard, this is also an album that lives up to its name, as it is vibrant and visceral and so raw you can suck the very marrow off its bones and chew on the accompanying gristle until you’re ready to let it slide pleasingly into your audio digestive system.
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Rarely had Monk thought that, an entire lifetime after gaining an A level in classical history, he would ever have to dig out my well-thumbed, almost disintegrating 50-year old Penguin Classics edition of Tacitus in order to discuss the merits of a heavy metal album; but time has a weird way of turning its wheel back on itself, and so here we are… cogitating upon the most turbulent year in the annals of the empire once known as Rome and this musical recreation and recollection some two millennia later.
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Swedish heavyweights thrown have announced a three-week run of headline dates from mid-April through early May, including five dates in England.
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The great tragedy of self-consciousness, that terrible and wonderful spark that makes us uniquely human, is the knowledge of our own mortality. That knowledge that one day, everything we have done, everything we are, and everything we love will succumb to the inevitable fading into nonexistence is a curse and our blessing.
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