Skyclad - Prince Of The Poverty Line
| Release date: | 22 March 1994 |
| Style: | Folk metal |
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01. Civil War Dance
02. Cardboard City
03. Sins Of Emission
04. Land Of The Rising Slum
05. The One Piece Puzzle
06. A Bellyful Of Emptiness
07. A Dog In The Manger
08. Gammadion Seed
09. Womb Of The Worm
10. The Truth Famine
Top 20 albums of 1994: 14
02. Cardboard City
03. Sins Of Emission
04. Land Of The Rising Slum
05. The One Piece Puzzle
06. A Bellyful Of Emptiness
07. A Dog In The Manger
08. Gammadion Seed
09. Womb Of The Worm
10. The Truth Famine
Top 20 albums of 1994: 14
Guest review
Lyrics Recorded at Lynx Studios (Newcastle).
Mixed at Rockfield Studios (Monmouth).
Engineered by Kevin Ridley.
Produced by Kevin Ridley and Skyclad.
Artwork by Duncan Storr.
Rating:
9.6
9.6
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Rating: 9.6 |
It's 1994, Skyclad is four years old, and they've already released their fourth album. While the sound on this release evolved from Thrash (Wayward Sons Of Mother Earth) to Folk (Jonah's Ark), "Prince Of The Poverty Line" marks a return to a heavier sound. In fact, it's the heaviest of all Skyclad's albums. Just to set the tone, the album begins with the roar of an angry crowd, and that makes way to the chorus that says "A bloody revolution is the simplest solution to the problems that they've made." Name of this song ? "Civil War Dance." Read more ›› |
21.07.2014
| 21.07.2014 |
You know what? This album's twenty years old and it's still as relevant as it was when it first came out. So do yourself a favor and check it out - or spin it a few times again! Darkside Momo's picks | More picks ›› |
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| musicalkaratekid Posts: 1506 |
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| R'Vannith ghedengi Elite Posts: 3099  |
Written by musicalkaratekid on 24.01.2012 at 01:16 Amen
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| Darkside Momo Retired Elite Posts: 9089  |
Written by deadone on 04.06.2014 at 05:31 yeah... Mine got overplayed for sure 
---- My Author's Blog (in French)  "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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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
So, I've been listening to this and I'm loving it! Thanks Momo for the recommendation  Favourite songs: Cardboard City, The One Piece Puzzle and Womb Of The Worm. But honestly, I like every song on this album. I'm glad I finally listened to it or I would be missing out.
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| NocturnalStalker Metal Addict Posts: 889  |
Definitely one of the best Skyclad works. A nearly perfect mix of heaviness and melody. My favourite tracks: Cardboard City, Sins of Emission, Land of the Rising Slum, A Bellyful of Emptiness, Womb of the Worm.
---- "And we are not who we think we are We are who we're afraid to be" - Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2260  |
Written by NocturnalStalker on 23.05.2016 at 18:50 It is indeed. Just such a pitty that it is heavily front loaded. While I enjoy all first five tracks (in particular The land of the rising slum and One piece puzzle), I cant find much in the second half of the album.
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| Darkside Momo Retired Elite Posts: 9089 |
Written by Redel on 14.05.2017 at 01:17 What?  While I admit that A Dog In The Manger to its time to really sink in, I'd that that the Gammadion Seed - Womb Of The Worm - Truth Famine is really the best POTPL has to offer. The Truth Famine, in particular - this is one hell of a fantastic closer, on par but different from Civil War Dance. The perfect end for a not-so-smooth ride... 
---- My Author's Blog (in French) "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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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2260 |
IMO, A bellyful of emptiness, A dog in the manger, and Gammadion seed are all pretty lame songs. Womb of the worm is a nice one, but not much more. The truth famine is certainly the highlight of the second half, but I still prefer every song from the first half. Second best Skyclad, after TSWOLS, together with IA.
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| Necrodamus Posts: 435  |
Just started listening to Skyclad and so far this one has resonated the most with me. It has the thrashy aggression of the older stuff and folk-tinged melodies of the later stuff, making it a perfect blending of both styles. Highly replayable too.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62043  |
This is good album, not as prev. one its beck to roots to heavy sound, not thrash roots, but more heavy metal whit folk metal singing if there is such thing
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Tom Muller Posts: 309  |
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| AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5326  |
This is a true masterpiece of folk metal. "Cardboard City", "Bellyful Of Emptiness", "The One Piece Puzzle", and "Land of the rising slum" will always remain true classics imo, but it's really hard to pick an actual favourite song, every song has it's meaning and importance. It's constructed with beautiful melodies and with powerful, meaningful lyrics, that many of us here in the north of England can surly relate to. They manage to portray an accurate image of what it's really like on the wrong side of the poverty line, just listen to the lyrics behind each track and you can clearly understand the albums true intent. "Dog in a manger", and "Womb of the worm", are the weaker songs here unfortunately, but even them songs aren't necessarily bad by any means, so this didn't effect the album scoring for me.
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| Druss Posts: 277  |
Amazing album, "The One Piece Puzzle" is such a powerful song, but the level really never drops off significantly here. Fans of Primordial would fancy this I think
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| Tom Muller Posts: 309 |
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