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Tiamat - Wildhoney



8.9 | 765 votes |
Release date: 1994
Style: Atmospheric gothic metal

Owners:

955 have it
81 want it
1 trades it


01. Wildhoney
02. Whatever That Hurts
03. The Ar
04. 25th Floor
05. Gaia
06. Visionaire
07. Kaleidoscope
08. Do You Dream Of Me?
09. Planets
10. A Pocket Size Sun

Top 20 albums of 1994: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 51

Staff review by
Ivor
Rating:
10
Having released Israel tour EP "The Sleeping Beauty" in 1994, Johan Edlund decided to scrap the lineup as he wasn't satisfied with the results he got. Only keyboardist Johnny Hagel remained. With session musicians Magnus Sahlgren on lead guitar and Lars Skold on drums, Edlund proceeded to make an outstanding album, one that opened doors to a wider audience and remains a beacon in music history.

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published 02.10.2004 | Comments (19)

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28.08.2010 - 05:35
Rating: 10
Uirapuru
Liver Failure
Ow what a junkie trip.. instrumental complexity to cover all the ''natural phylosophy'' of psilocybe and that thing that give us the pocket size sun... XD
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member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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04.01.2011 - 23:43
Rating: 10
paradise_lostdk

Super great album. I´ll remember this cd from when i was "young". And i still love it. Tiamat is one of my favorite bands.
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28.01.2011 - 22:37
Born-2rise
Nayyiker
Possibly the best thing that came out of my birth year
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04.10.2012 - 03:12
Rating: 9
elseif

I only discovered this band recently... it's a great album.
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23.11.2012 - 22:24
Rating: 10
Spacerunner

First half of 90s was a hard time for metal but it has its own masterpieces. This one is the most beloved by me.>)
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17.12.2012 - 20:36
Rating: 9
Erik M.

While it sounded a bit boring at first, I was eventually blown away by it. Amazing, truly unique-sounding album.
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14.09.2013 - 01:14
LordHypnos
Account deleted
Very creative and very unique album. Every song is great, no exception. I guess my favorites are Visionaire, Gaia and Do You Dream Of Me?. This last one has an atmosphere that I like so much.
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21.12.2013 - 23:23
Rating: 9
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
Loving "The Ar" Never thought I'd like gothic but so far I've found Wolfheart and this enjoyable today
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25.01.2014 - 23:38
oshgar

I just realized that the song "Pocket Sized Sun" is not "Pocket Sized Gun". I've been reading that wrong for over a year now.
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22.03.2014 - 00:40
Constantine
Account deleted
This album is everything I love about music
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11.04.2014 - 15:53
Rating: 10
HellriderRising

Awesome music, transfers you to another world.
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10.07.2014 - 18:06
Rating: 9
Melkor

The lyrics to 'whatever that hurts' are so freaking awesome. it describes the trip on shrooms. lol
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03.08.2016 - 14:31
Rating: 9
FYA
Destroyer
The Ar <3
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06.08.2016 - 10:32
Rating: 10
MetalAce
The Eternal
Truely a MASTERPIECE! Great atmosphere all the way through the album
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07.11.2016 - 21:05
Rating: 8
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
This is my way to this band 8 winters ago or was it more?
Between old and new, still TV, and CD, begging of I net, I saw video ''Gaia''
I was blown away, musically this is doomster type of album, what I like, excellent album, best from Tiamat
Somehow I net killed a meaning to fraise underground, old days we dig up weird bands in weird ways, tape sharing, radio and so on, nowadays spotify and YouTube killed a underghround, nothing cant be weird


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An old man rises from his wheelchair
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08.11.2016 - 01:18
Darkside Momo
Retired
Written by Bad English on 07.11.2016 at 21:05

fraise underground


ROFL LMAO (to keep in line with old-school thinking out there)
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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you"

"I've lost too many years now
I'm stealing back my soul
I am awake"
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08.11.2016 - 01:32
Rating: 8
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Darkside Momo on 08.11.2016 at 01:18

Written by Bad English on 07.11.2016 at 21:05

fraise underground


ROFL LMAO (to keep in line with old-school thinking out there)


mi parlois noi francais, mi parlous bad englaise ... but what it calls that think in literature, isn't it fraise ?
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25.03.2017 - 23:47
Rating: 9
Redel

What a unique album! Whatever that hurts and Gaia are among the best that has ever been released in the context of metal. Unfortunately their last excellent work.

Edit: We were smoking the shit out of this back at the time.
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28.11.2020 - 00:55
Alakazam
spendin' cheese
Written by Spacerunner on 23.11.2012 at 22:24

First half of 90s was a hard time for metal but it has its own masterpieces. This one is the most beloved by me.>)

HoolLeeesssSSSsssssshhhhhhHIiiiTTttt.
Old comment I understand with slight context missing but seeing that opinion alone has got to be raised up and revised. There's an indisputable amount of classics or masterpieces from those first 6 years more than you remember. If anything remote to your view it's the later 90's contrastingly that has more stereotype of being overlooked, difficult yet a conundrum of important work.

Wldhoney's biggest strength to me lies in how this album's atmosphere remains consistent in its constructive flow at expanding its genres. Begins as gothic doom then ascends with folk ambient finally climaxing into orgasmic progressive psychedelia. I believe In The Woods' Omnio, Moonspell's Wolfheart, Paradise Lost's Draconian Times and Type O Negative's October Rust owe some of their impressive formulas gratitude at Wildhoney.
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28.11.2020 - 01:32
Rating: 9
Redel

Written by Alakazam on 28.11.2020 at 00:55

Written by Spacerunner on 23.11.2012 at 22:24

First half of 90s was a hard time for metal but it has its own masterpieces. This one is the most beloved by me.>)

... that opinion alone has got to be raised up and revised. There's an indisputable amount of classics or masterpieces from those first 6 years more than you remember.

Well, he didnt deny that. He said first half had its masterpieces.
How many do you think he remembers?
Now, he also said that first half of 90s was a hard time for Metal.
And that was the case because Grunge came up.
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28.11.2020 - 01:48
Alakazam
spendin' cheese
Quote:
Written by Redel on 28.11.2020 at 01:32

... that opinion alone has got to be raised up and revised. There's an indisputable amount of classics or masterpieces from those first 6 years more than you remember.

Well, he didnt deny that. He said first half had its masterpieces.
How many do you think he remembers?
Now, he also said that first half of 90s was a hard time for Metal.
And that was the case because Grunge came up.


Not enough at that time posted inevitably compared to now when the 1990s was the most innovative and explosive decade in its history. Booming both from the mainstream and underground especially to which Grunge and Alt haven't got shit numerically when it comes to amounts of classics or masterpieces by the quantities. Every extreme subgenre and their fusion mother that grew to be selective now has its traces in this decade afaik and the mainstream reached the biggest cultural forte it ever did, being measured since.
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08.03.2021 - 14:08
Rating: 9
The Melting Snow

I feel like a fool calling myself a Gothic Metal fan and never taking this album seriously. I think I heard bits and pieces on Youtube and then moved past it.

Heard it in its entirety for the first time right now and it's on repeat now. I must say a lot of the Gothic Metal coming after this album has just been a subset of this.
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09.03.2021 - 08:49
Rating: 8
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by The Melting Snow on 08.03.2021 at 14:08

I feel like a fool calling myself a Gothic Metal fan and never taking this album seriously. I think I heard bits and pieces on Youtube and then moved past it.

Heard it in its entirety for the first time right now and it's on repeat now. I must say a lot of the Gothic Metal coming after this album has just been a subset of this.

Still good album, last one from the band whit roots, enjoyable album to me.
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14.07.2021 - 16:59
Rating: 9
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
This album is unbelievably good! Beautiful music with a real intense atmosphere unlike anything I've experienced in gothic metal. The style has a hint of Moonspell, combined with Paradise Lost about it, and it's amazing just how trippy it is, it's almost as Psychedelic as early Pink Floyd's stuff.
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14.07.2021 - 17:04
Rating: 9
Redel

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 14.07.2021 at 16:59

how trippy it is, it's almost as Psychedelic as early Pink Floyd's stuff.

Dude, we have been smoking our brains out to that album back at its time.
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14.07.2021 - 17:14
Rating: 9
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Written by Redel on 14.07.2021 at 17:04

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 14.07.2021 at 16:59

how trippy it is, it's almost as Psychedelic as early Pink Floyd's stuff.

Dude, we have been smoking our brains out to that album back at its time.

I've just revisited this album, it brings back alot of memories, I didn't know much about Gothic Metal at the time, but this album surely had an impact on me in more ways than one. 😂
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01.03.2022 - 00:39
Rating: 8
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Mesmerizing atmosphere... I feel like floating down a long, calm river... the moon is shining in the sky, the birds and insects buzzing in the trees around me, and the music envelops me...
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22.11.2023 - 17:58
Rating: 9
Tom Muller

The dark side of the moon of metal
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Can you see it
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26.01.2024 - 15:14
Rating: 9
nonZero

I love the dark and melancholic atmosphere on this album.

9.1/10 for me - 'Whatever That Hurts' and 'The Ar' are the standout tracks. 'Do You Dream of Me?' and 'Planets' are both also great.
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