Modus Vivendi

Modus Vivendi

Track Listings

1. Anubis

2. No Mercy

3. Afraid to Die

4. Clearly Insane

5. Cyberdome

6. Take on the World

7. Mother Shipton's Words

8. Unwelcome Guest

9. Life in a Lonely Grave

10. When the Spirit Rules the World

11. Rainbow Demon [*]

12. Knowing Me, Knowing You [*]

13. Losing More Than You Ever Had [*]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Awesome, riffing, fierce rhythms, delicate melodies and traditional metal roots combine with intricate rhythmic displays and some of the finest clean vocals in all of Power Metal for what is, without a doubt, Tad Morose's finest hour. U.S. pressing features 13 tracks including 3 exclusive bonus cover songs not found on import version - Accept 'Losing More Than You Ever Had', Abba 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' and Uriah Heep 'Rainbow Demon'. Century Media. 2004.

Modus Vivendi,Tad Morose,Century Media,Heavy Metal,Pop,Power Metal,Progressive Metal,Rock,Rock/Pop,Scandinavian Metal,Sweden

Average customer rating: Not just another classical recording

Sarah Stanton: A Glimpse of Heaven Manufacturer: MSR Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006B431A Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

1. Largo
2. Terri's Song
3. Unity
4. Jubilant Dance
5. Field of Melodies
6. Harmony of Peace
7. Intrigue
8. Such Is Life
9. A Child's Heart
10. Composition Ten
11. August Song
12. Modus Vivendi
13. Coming Home
14. My Delight
15. A Glimpse of Heaven

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Not just another classical recording.......2004-11-10

Average customer rating:

Eyesight Project Eyesight Project Manufacturer: Modus Vivendi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music All Bargain Titles | Dance General | Dance & DJ | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000CAKE1S Release Date: 2005-05-03

Tracks:

1. Twelve Tribes
2. On Chrome
3. Imagination
4. Eyesight

Average customer rating: Great Metal Band Classic as Classic can be

Modus Vivendi Tad Morose Manufacturer: Crown Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00018GYPG Release Date: 2004-03-08

Tracks:

1. Anubis
2. No Mercy
3. Afraid to Die
4. Clearly Insane
5. Cyberdome
6. Take on the World
7. Mother Shipton's Words
8. Unwelcome Guest
9. Life in a Lonely Grave
10. When the Spirit Rules the World
11. We Watch the Well Die [*]
12. Devastation [*]

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Great Metal Band.......2004-02-13

Classic as Classic can be.......2004-01-26

Average customer rating:

Modus Vivendi Tad Morose Manufacturer: Crown Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BRI2SO Release Date: 2004-04-13

Tracks:

1. Anubis
2. No Mercy
3. Afraid to Die
4. Clearly Insane
5. Cyberdome
6. Take on the World
7. Mother Shipton's Words
8. Unwelcome Guest
9. Life in a Lonely Grave
10. When the Spirit Rules the World
11. We Watch the Well Die [*]
12. Devastation [*]

Average customer rating: Exhilarating Metal From Sweden's Finest Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi It's good... it's REALLY good They just keep getting better.

Modus Vivendi Tad Morose Manufacturer: Century Media ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Undead Matters of the Dark Shadowland Regressus Never-Ending ASIN: B00018U9NY Release Date: 2004-02-10

Tracks:

1. Anubis
2. No Mercy
3. Afraid to Die
4. Clearly Insane
5. Cyberdome
6. Take on the World
7. Mother Shipton's Words
8. Unwelcome Guest
9. Life in a Lonely Grave
10. When the Spirit Rules the World
11. Rainbow Demon [*]
12. Knowing Me, Knowing You [*]
13. Losing More Than You Ever Had [*]

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Exhilarating Metal From Sweden's Finest.......2005-01-14

Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi.......2004-04-12

Last year Tad Morose went into their local studio Soundcreation to record this new album. Fredrik Nordström (Dream Evil, In Flames, and Dimmu Borgir etc) took care of the mixing of the album at his own studio, the very well known Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden. As usual, Fredrik has done an excellent job with the production and the soundpicture. There's nothing bad to say about the production at all; Fredrik knows what he's doing.

"MODUS VIVENDI" contains 10 tracks. The cover is brilliantly done by the German artist Jan Meininghaus (Bolt Thrower, Brainstorm and Zonata etc) and captures the music very nicely.

Urban has a powerful voice that suits the music. Christer and Daniel have a nice guitar sound and the same goes for Peter on drums. Tad Morose plays very competent pure power metal with a lot of tempo through the songs. Guitar and voice are very high up in the soundpicture. As usual, when it comes to power metal, there have to be some ballads on the album, and so there are on this one. "CYBERDOME" is an up-tempo ballad with a lot of guitar riffs. Urban shows that he has a really broad vocal range in this song.

I don't have any favourite song on this album; the songs have a tendency to blend together. This feels like ordinary power metal nothing more or less. Personally I think that there's much better band in this genre like Dream Evil or Edguy and if you are going to buy a power metal album this should maybe not be your first choice, check out the other bands mentioned above instead.

It's good... it's REALLY good.......2004-02-17

I will not get into the history of Tad Morose here; but I will say this. When I eagerly picked up the previous album Matters of the Dark, I was a little disappointed--especially because of the brilliant Undead CD. I knew they were in the process of establishing their new direction, but MOTD overall ended up sounding too much like its predecessor and somewhat failed to bring new ideas to the table. Considering that none of the previous Tad Morose albums sounded like each other, I was a little baffled, and although good in its own right, I rank MOTD as the Tad Morose album I listen to the least. Taking this into account, I can safely say that Modus Vivendi is a step in the right direction.

The first song "Anubis" is one of the greatest surprises of this album. I don't know why, but both the Middle Eastern melodies and riffing as well as Urban Breed's vocals remind me terribly of Turkey's greatest and best heavy metal band Mezarkabul (formerly known as Pentagram). [So if you like this song and want to hear more of it make sure you check out Mezarkabul - Unspoken or Pentagram - Anatolia. They're among my all-time favourite CDs.] Back to Modus Vivendi. "Anubis" is one of the unusual songs Tad Morose have composed in the post-Andren era and it's a very good one at that. "No Mercy" is like a second album opener with its crunchy opening and fiery chorus. It easily hints that Urban Breed may arguably be doing his best vocal performance in his Tad Morose career. His singing is very aggressive, which we heard on some songs in Undead and MOTD, but on Modus Vivendi, he retains his aggressive delivery through the entire album. As "Afraid to Die" kicks in and gets you going, somewhere towards the middle, you may worry that the guitar work may be lacking, especially in the soloing department. That was one of the major setbacks of MOTD. Now Undead didn't have too many killer solos either, because of the new approach and absence of keys. However we didn't need too much emphasis on guitars on Undead. MOTD seemed to follow the same path but there weren't any rocking solos on it. But Modus Vivendi doesn't suffer from the same problems. The solo in "Afraid to Die" rocks hard and heavy! And it's not the only one. There are amazing solos in every other song. Now that is great, isn't it? The twin guitar work is highly impressive and the soloing is top notch. When one guitar lays down the solos, the other fills the gaps with subtle rhythm work and sublime bass lines.

"Clearly Insane" is perhaps the heaviest song Tad Morose has ever composed. Its almost thrashy intro is incredibly well done and h e a v y. Urban Breed sings like there's no tomorrow and again the guitar solo takes you to a higher level. Unlike the last three Breed-era albums, there aren't any ballads on this one. "Cyberdome" is the only mid-tempo song and even that one has an interesting momentum shifting from slow to really fast melodic passages. The chorus is less catchy, and I'm sure it's meant to be that way, displaying Urban Breed's simply beautiful vocals over a soft acoustic piece and rhythmic drum work. The rest of the album pretty much continues in the same vein offering some awesome guitar work from Daniel Olsson and Christer Andersson. I am also highly impressed by drummer Peter Moren whose tasteful drumming on "Anubis" made my jaws drop. Bassists are always the bottom line of metal music. Take them out and you only have a half-complete song. Anders Modd deserves a special praise for his work here. This thing wouldn't have been what it is without his input. Good job indeed. Behind Urban Breed, Wolverine vocalist Stefan Zell once again appears as a guest singer and as usual he does a fairly impressive job.

So why not 5 stars you may wonder. The reason for that is, being a big fan of the older Tad Morose albums, which were beautiful and unique examples of dark progressive metal, I feel those albums have more substance, and therefore, more replay value for me. In my opinion, it is still open to discussion whether the complete exclusion of keyboards from Tad Morose's music was a good move or not. While I really love Undead, I still feel A Mended Rhyme (despite the poor production) has its own place in my heart. The older albums with Kristian Andren were more experimental in attitude and darkly progressive in structure, while the current material doesn't explore much new ground. On the other hand it's more in your face, more direct and heavy. I think it's a good decision that the total running time of this CD is less than 50 minutes because if it were longer it could be more difficult to make it to the end of it. Currently the guys in Tad Morose obviously want to make music that flat out rocks and that's perfectly fine with me.

There's no tracklisting on Amazon's page so here you go: Anubis . No Mercy . Afraid to Die . Clearly Insane . Cyberdome . Take on the World . Mother Shipton's Words . Unwelcome Guest . Life in a Lonely Grave . When the Spirit Rules the World

They just keep getting better........2004-02-14

1.Anubis-Not exactly sure of the meaning,but it starts off with a Middle eastern punch and grooves right along with all the intensity of a powerful opening track also has a great Testament sounding breakdown section in the middle..great song.

2.No Mercy-More up-beat rocker here with some great swedish sounding riff's,with a great chorus also.

3.Afraid to Die-Awesome mid-tempo rocker,in which Urban Breed's vocal's instile a great power.The man sounds like he's about 10 feet tall and his name should be goliath.Awesome lyrics to,one in which states,"Make no mistake my friend i'll hold you till the bitter end,or face the music,get a grip now say Farewell".

4.Clearly Insane-Indeed,clearly the heaviest track on the album,the name speaks for itself.

5.Cyberdome-Not really a ballad,but the slowest more surreal type song on the album still heavy though,Great chorus also.Either has something to do with futuristic warfare or the internet...not sure.

6.Take on the world-Great tune,starts off with the Galloping maidenist drum beat,and a great power duo of guitar work.Which is found throughout the entire album.

7.Mother Shiptons Words-A very black sabbathish tune with double bass,also a very catchy chorus.Although i have no idea who she is.But thats what i like music you have to think about.

8.Unwelcome Guest-A song def.about aliens invading and one man stands alone,reminds you a little of predator with the soundbites at the beginning.This also sounds like Thrashy sabbath,literally the riff sounds like the Song Black sabbath sped up,and very much heavier,def.one of my favorites.Very heavy.

9.Life in A Lonely Grave-A song thats hard to describe its slow,heavy,chunky,and melodic all at once,and also has a very deep emotional sounding chorus to it.Awesome.

10.When the spirit rules the world-Has an opening that sounds like Egyptian slaves being branded by they're masters.Excellent chorus and mid-section break,very solid tight riffing here.

So its time to give credit where credit is due,they don't sound like anyone else,and they are certainly no average Metal band.If this were the mid 80's early 90's in the U.S they would be soaring.Unfortunately you have to go to sweden to find real metal these days.Powerful,monsterous vocal's,heavy guitar's to blow out your speaker's and just an overall sound like no other makes Tad Morose my new Fav.band for this New Mellenium.Nuff said.

Average customer rating:

Vol. 1-Modus Vivendi Manufacturer: Modus Vivendi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA6P52 Release Date: 2004-10-05

Average customer rating:

Modus Vivendi Tad Morose Manufacturer: Century Media ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000LWZCG4

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2. Mystery Tracks Archives, Vol. 3
3. Next [Clean]
4. Nine on a Ten Scale
5. Original Sin [Import]
6. Perfect Timing [Original recording remastered] [Import]
7. Petitioning the Empty Sky [Enhanced] [Original recording remastered]
8. Platinum & Gold Collection [Original recording remastered]
9. Play 'N' the Game [Original recording remastered] [Import]
10. Power Play [Import]

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