Tharaphita - Iidsetel Sünkjatel Radadel - review
Tharaphita - Iidsetel Sünkjatel Radadel - review
Tracklist
01. Lidsetel Sünkjatel Radadel02. Vahkturm
03. Ristikatk
04. Surmatalv
05. Loodusviha
06. Hullusesse
07. Raudses Haardes
A review by
destroyah April 15, 2007
This album is just that good. Even though black metal's had to give up his throne in what I now call my "Winämp of Sex and Drugs" (formerly known as "Unholy Winamp") I still have to admit Tharaphita has valiantly fought his way into my playlist. Ever since I downloaded the title track off their website I figured I might even buy this album. Of course my doubts about Tharaphita held me back long enough for Nailboard Records to step up and shove a copy in my hand. And thank Satan they did.
So what do these cape-wearing Estonian heathens deliver? Epic tales of Death and Glory as the title track's first acoustic melody transforms into a majestic anthemn. Tear-jerking melancholic guitars guaranteed to send shivers down the spine of every nature's child in "Sumatalv"; tales of honor and noble fights, odes to mother earth. The keyboards in "Raudses Haardes" are cosmic and the riffs... well, blacker than the soil we walk upon and colder than the northern sky. I suppose you could say if Mel Gibson made a movie called "We Were Pagans" then this is what it would sound like. On the record you'll witness passionate fighting as well as the duality of war.
By now you may have figured out that "Iidsetel Sünkjatel Radadel" falls into the realm of melodic black metal. So even if you're not really into that tr00-evil stuff, give this record a spin. There's several facets here that probably appeal to a relatively wide scale of metalheads. For instance "Vahkturm" delivers a nice thrash-treat.
So there you have it - a release compulsory for every heathen out there. Whether you think the cross should be inverted or burned, you'll enjoy this monument against Christian conquest and domination. And even if you think a cross is nothing but two pieces of wood, Tharaphita will make you say "hell yeah, this is the shit!"
Written by destroyah | April 15, 2007
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Great album indeed. I didn't like their last album "Primeval Force", but this release is just great.
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Good album. And by the way , I have seen them wearing capes only one time , and that was two years ago.
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Hallowed be thy cape! Anything that Tharaphita decide to do, short of wearing chain mail diapers on stage, is okay with me. But this album is the best of the year so far.
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I just found about this band because of this review, and theyre as good as this review says they are. Although i dont know where to find this goddamn album because i live in Canada 
---- Any man can stand adversity, but to test his character give him power - A. Lincoln
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Posts: 12195 Written by Visioneerie on 04.01.2008 at 00:01 Try the Nailboard Records netstore: http://www.nailboard.org/store/?open=home&setSkin=2
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Posts: 810 Written by destroyah on 04.01.2008 at 14:00 Awesome man, it's actually there, thanks alot 
---- Any man can stand adversity, but to test his character give him power - A. Lincoln
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