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Tiamat will always have a place in my music collection, but I would be lying if I said I was satisfied with where they are now. I remember when I first heard them on a Century Media sampler disc. It was Whatever that Hurts. I remember thinking that these guys are really doing something special. Then came A Deeper Kind of Slumber and I was amazed by how ahead of it's time that album felt. At the time, they had some coverage in Metal Maniacs and used special instruments and had some body art painting thing going on. I thought they were gonna be some crazy theatrical band that would become the underground exclusive find that everyone would be scalping tickets to because of the obscure nature of the performances. This was all the stuff running through my head at the time. Unfortunately, he regressed IMO to a more simplistic Gothic style, and while still good, they are a shadow of the once imaginative and innovative band that captured my imagination some 15 years ago. A Deeper Kind of Slumber was a revolutionary album IMO and I wish he would have continued down that experimental road.

This is a band that I feel like I should spend more time on, but I have never listened to them except Prey (a blind buy a few years back).

I too found them through their Prey album. It has such a nice, soft flow that lulls you straight to sleep. Amanethes is different and at first I didn't like it much, but it definitely grew on me over the last few years. I'd really like to seem them go back to the not-quite-doominess that was Prey, but if they still put out quality music, who am I to complain?

As voxmonster mentioned, A Deeper Kind of Slumber was well ahead of its time, though I prefer the more metallic (though still adventurous) Wildhoney and Clouds to that album. I think if they kept more of the metal sound and mixed it with newer versions of "A Pocket Size Sun" or "Mount Marilyn" they would have been one of the very best bands from the past two decades.

Finally gave this a listen, and thought it was decent: one of their better ones since A Deeper Kind of Slumber, anyway.