Cut from Stone

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Cut From Stone
Susperia - cut from stone.jpg
Studio album by
Released2 April 2007
RecordedAugust - October 2006
Genre Thrash metal
Length47:07
Label Tabu Recordings
Producer Susperia & Marius Strand
Susperia chronology
Devil May Care
(2005)
Cut From Stone
(2007)
Attitude
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Cut from Stone is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian thrash metal band Susperia. As with their other albums, there is an extreme Testament influence in their music. [2]

Norway Country in Northern Europe

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work. The lyrical subject matter often deals with criticisms of The Establishment, and at times shares a disdain for Christian dogma resembling that of their black metal counterparts. The language is typically quite direct and denunciatory, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk.

Susperia band

Susperia is a Norwegian black/thrash metal band formed in October 1998 by Tjodalv and Cyrus.

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics written by Pål "Athera" Mathiesen.

No.TitleMusicLength
1."More" Terje "Cyrus" Andersen 3:33
2."Lackluster Day"Cyrus3:22
3."The Clone"Cyrus4:14
4."Distant Memory"Cyrus, Christian "Elvorn" Hagen6:55
5."Release"Cyrus4:44
6."Life Deprived"Cyrus4:23
7."Between the Lines"Cyrus, Elvorn3:35
8."Bound to Come"Cyrus3:45
9."Under"Cyrus4:09
10."Brother"Cyrus3:16
11."Cut from Stone"Cyrus5:11

Credits

Susperia

Cyrus (metal musician) Norwegian musician

Cyrus is a Norwegian musician best known as the guitarist of Norwegian black metal band Susperia. He plays guitar and bass guitar.

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure. The lead is the featured guitar, which usually plays single-note-based lines or double-stops. In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz, punk, fusion, some pop, and other music styles, lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompaniment chords and riffs.

Rhythm guitar guitar technique; part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section ; and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together. Therefore, the basic technique of rhythm guitar is to hold down a series of chords with the fretting hand while strumming or fingerpicking rhythmically with the other hand. More developed rhythm techniques include arpeggios, damping, riffs, chord solos, and complex strums.

Production

Release history

CountryDate
Norway 2 April 2007
Europe 9 April 2007

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References

  1. Henderson, Alex. Cut from Stone at AllMusic
  2. Bill Whish (20 June 2007). "Cut from Stone review". Exclaim!. Retrieved 15 June 2019.