Hell Symphony

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Hell Symphony
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Studio album by Root
Released 1991
Genre Black metal
Length44:18
Label Zeras Records
Producer Jiří "Big Boss" Valter, Pavel Zym, Petr Hošek
Root chronology
Zjevení
(1990)		Hell Symphony
(1991)		 The Temple in the Underworld
(1992)

Hell Symphony is the second full-length album by Czech black metal band Root. It was originally released in 1991.

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.

Root are a Czech black metal band.

Contents

The album contains the first Root songs in the English language. On the band’s homepage, the style was described as heavy compared to the "monumentality of The Temple in the Underworld , mystery of Kärgeräs and the dark charm of The Book ". [1] Rock Hard magazine featured Hell Symphony on its list 250 Black-Metal-Alben, die man kennen sollte. [2]

<i>The Temple in the Underworld</i> 1992 studio album by Root

The Temple in the Underworld is the third studio album by Czech black metal band Root, released in December 1992 through Monitor. This marked the end of their early raw black metal sound, and was also their last release with guitarist Daniel "Mr. D.A.N." Janáček. It was re-issued under CD format by Monitor with two bonus tracks.

<i>Kärgeräs</i> album by Root

Kärgeräs is the fourth studio album by Czech black metal band Root, released in 1996 through Black Hole Records. Beginning with this album, Root began to drift away from their traditional black metal-inflected sonority, seeing them advancing towards the hybridization of black and heavy metal they are currently famous for.

<i>The Book</i> (album) album by Root

The Book is the fifth studio album by Czech black/heavy metal band Root, released on 24 June 1999 through Redblack Productions. It was the band's first album with guitarists Marek "Ashok" Šmerda and Aleš "Alesh A.D." Dostál, and their second of four albums to be recorded at the Shaark Studio in South Moravia, the others being Kärgeräs, its sequel Kärgeräs – Return from Oblivion and Black Seal.

"The Oath" and "Satan’s March" were included as bonus tracks in the 2001 re-release of the album along with live versions of "The Old Ones", "Message", "Leviathan" and "Píseň pro Satana".

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Beelzebub"Petr Hošek6:16
2."Belial"Dan Janáček, Petr Hošek2:55
3."Lucifer"Petr Hošek3:50
4."Abaddon"Jiří Valter3:00
5."Asmodeus"Petr Hošek3:03
6."Satan"Jiří Valter4:00
7."Leviathan"Petr Hošek, Jiří Valter5:34
8."Astaroth"Jiří Valter2:44
9."Loki"Petr Hošek4:17
10."The Prayers"Petr Hošek3:50
11."The Oath"Petr Hošek0:40
12."Satan's March"Jiří Valter, Petr Hošek3:47

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ history.
  2. ↑ 250 Black-Metal-Alben, die man kennen sollte. In: Rock Hard, no. 269, October 2009, p. 75.
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