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Tiamat

Musical Group

Swedish metal band led by Johan Edlund. Formed as Treblinka and later renamed Tiamat, the group moved from early death metal toward melodic/doom and gothic styles, gaining recognition for 1990s albums such as The Astral Sleep, Clouds and Wildhoney.

Johan Edlund is the band's constant leader and primary songwriter. Reviews and sources note origins in the Stockholm/Hammarby area and that the band recorded for labels including Century Media and later Nuclear Blast.

DeBaser reviews praise Tiamat's 1990s output (The Astral Sleep, Clouds, Wildhoney) as influential, atmospheric, and genre-defining. Later records and stylistic shifts receive mixed-to-critical responses. Johan Edlund is repeatedly identified as the band's constant creative force.

For:Listeners of gothic/doom metal, fans of atmospheric and psychedelic metal, and readers interested in the evolution from death metal to gothic rock.

 This album, if Gothic has ever had a meaning, represents, along with a few others, the pinnacle and the unreachable summit.

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 When they formed (1989), Tiamat played a rough death metal of typically Swedish mark, inspired by the fathers of the nation Entombed (or rather Nihilist!) and influenced by the then-boiling scene

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 Wildhoney is the fourth album, dating back to 1994, of this Norwegian gothic metal band: Tiamat.

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