Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
| Release date: | 1 June 2012 |
| Style: | Melodic death metal |
Owners: |
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01. Abeyance
02. Remnants
03. Fraught
04. Absit Omen
05. To Stir The Sea
06. In Parting
07. The Dream And The Waking
08. By Moon And Star
The best Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal album of 2012
Top 20 albums of 2012: 2
02. Remnants
03. Fraught
04. Absit Omen
05. To Stir The Sea
06. In Parting
07. The Dream And The Waking
08. By Moon And Star
The best Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal album of 2012
Top 20 albums of 2012: 2
Review
Lyrics George Kosmas - vocals, guitars
Steven Merry - keyboards, piano
Shaun Sykes - guitars
Jimmy Vanden Broeck - drums
John Richardson - bass
Session musicians
Megan Sykes - flute
Additional info
In memory of Dimitris Haitidis (28/12/87 - 29/6/11).
Recorded between the months of December 2011 & February 2012.
Recorded and engineered by Warren Hammond at Pennydrop Audio, Melbourne.
Mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios, Sweden in March 2012.
Produced by Be'lakor.
Image on album cover originally painted by Gabriel Ferrier.
All album art selected by Be'lakor and prepared by Costin Chioreanu at Twilight 13 Media. All other album design done by Costin Chioreanu with the assistance of Be'lakor.
Rating:
9.0
9.0
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Rating: 9.0 |
In what can only be described as a natural progression of one of the most highly regarded melodic death metal albums of the decade in Stone's Reach, Be'lakor have taken to the studio once more with the hopes of building on their already unrelenting momentum. Read more ›› |
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| R'Vannith ghedengi elite Posts: 3099  |
Sounds too hollow. Yes those riffs and melodies are damned impressive but there is very little to nothing behind them to build an atmosphere with like on the previous album. Stone's Reach was easily better overall I think.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist staff Posts: 21306  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.06.2012 at 16:38 Any one of us could argue the majority of metal you listen to is just as generic. Tried and true melodeath isn't any less innovative than revivalist death or traditional doom in my opinion. And to top it off so that it doesn't seem like I'm trying to single you out, this applies to most of the black metal I listen to as well. I'm just trying to illustrate the point that a lot of the music you bash suffers from the same problems as the music you love.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| The Melting Snow Posts: 615  |
Great album, but 35th of all time? I guess it's being over rated now :|
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| Risto Wandering Midget Posts: 1115  |
Written by The Melting Snow on 11.06.2012 at 11:03 Stone's Reach still has more than twice the amount of votes and it's at 8.90 (72nd), that rating is pretty much in contention.
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| Unhealer Eclecticist Posts: 2311  |
Written by Guest on 11.06.2012 at 21:53 Soon another melodic band will release an album that will be running for top album of 2012 and it's stupid fanboys will rate this album '1' 
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| Risto Wandering Midget Posts: 1115 |
Kolony ran out of stock which caused the Finnish street date to push back to June 20th (was originally 15th). 70% of it went to Germany - expecting a few more dates to be announced around there!
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| Ace Frawley The Spaceman Posts: 1458  |
Reckon track 2 "Remnants" is killer!
---- The sun shines over The Fool...
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| Timmeh Dudeman Posts: 344  |
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| Destructo Posts: 198  |
Just a slight, very slight stepdown from Stone's Reach, but then Be'lakor never release anything mediocre, do they ?? 
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| Dark Blood The Avenger Posts: 1435  |
I don't know if it was because I was expecting a second Stone's Reach, but I didn't quite liked it at first. Eventually it grew on me, but it took a while. The first few spins left me with a "meh, this isn't gonna work" impression and that it wasn't as remarkable as their 2nd, but a few days later I could hear the melodies in my subconscious as if it was calling me. It started to grow, and I'm starting to like it almost as much as Stone's Reach. I gave it a 9 for now, but it's a very fragile 9. I feel it lacks memorable moments and can go down a point if I'm in a more demanding mood. 
---- It is humanity who must pay homage to the greatness of the Universe... not the Universe to the human narcissism. 
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| Ace Frawley The Spaceman Posts: 1458 |
I have increased my rating of this album to 8. It improves with each listen. And I had the great fortune to see them play live in Canberra last night and they were incredible. They opened with "Absit Omen" and the other tracks they played from Of Breath and Bone were "Remnants", "Fraught" and "By Moon and Star". Great to see these songs played live and they were flawless.
---- The sun shines over The Fool...
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| Timmeh Dudeman Posts: 344 |
Written by Ace Frawley on 23.06.2012 at 05:12 I wish they would hurry up and announce the Brisbane dates I'm starting to get impatient.
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| LusitanianTroll Posts: 15  |
Ranked number 26 in the overall greatest death metal albums chart...seriously guys? Yea, I admit that I'm not really into Melo Death, maybe that's why I can't see the "awesomeness" everyone is claiming in this. Gonna listen to Towards the Megalith by DIsma now to "wash" my ears with some real morbid death metal.
---- "All is worthwhile if the soul is not small" Fernando Pessoa
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| qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1537  |
You know what would make Be'lakor as legendary as Death was? If the next record can overshine Stone's Reach. I agree that Of Breath And Bone is a bit of step back, but it's still a very good record to listen to, and there are some real highlights and overall consistency on the album. As a judgement for the future, they haven't crossed the borders of melodic death metal... I'd say they could win the metal world if they try to be a little bit progressive. Just an opinion...
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist staff Posts: 21306 |
Written by LusitanianTroll on 13.07.2012 at 18:29 Wow, I wish I had as good a taste in music as you.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Stoned Crow Posts: 85  |
Written by Heartless on 16.07.2012 at 16:51 Don't be so heartless.
---- I'm very serious about not being serious.
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| Dark Cornatus Powerslave elite Posts: 4330  |
I hate melodeath, and i think Be'Lakor is probably the first band in the genre i like. I much prefer death metal vocals than melodeath, but the vocals still work here because the music is so damn good. Remnants and In Parting are my favourites.
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| John Shock Posts: 500 |
Written by Guest on 16.07.2012 at 18:39 If you have problems with long albuns sure you don't enjoy many progressive bands...like Dream Theater or Rush or, i don't know...Opeth! ...They have huge exclusive songs! ...
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