The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

Track Listings

1. Introit

2. Fucking Your Ghost in Chains of Ice

3. Sardoniscorn

4. Bitter Emblem of Dissolve

5. Scenic Solitude and Leprosy

6. Ye Whom Shadows Move Towards

7. Submersed

8. Mine Molten Armor

9. Idiot Sun

10. At the Door to the Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide,Leviathan,Napalm [Spv],Death Metal/Black Metal,Heavy Metal,Metal,Pop,Progressive Metal,Rock

Average customer rating:

Reminiscing the Past of Black Metal While Hanging to a Future

I find all the five star ratings a bit odd.

Audio Rape...

This is brilliant black album

4.5. Cacophonous, but sad and beautiful too

The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
Leviathan
Manufacturer: Napalm
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000A0DWT
Release Date: 2003-07-22

Tracks:

Introit
Fucking Your Ghost in Chains of Ice
Sardoniscorn
Bitter Emblem of Dissolve
Scenic Solitude and Leprosy
Ye Whom Shadows Move Towards
Submersed
Mine Molten Armor
Idiot Sun
At the Door to the Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

Customer Reviews:

Reminiscing the Past of Black Metal While Hanging to a Future.......2007-07-12

Not much I can say that hasn't already been said.

This is a great CD. It has the weird and proggy aspects of new black metal combined with the raw, melancholic fury of old black metal. The CD is full of suicide screams of fury and sorrow. The musician in charge of the production did a good job. This CD is definitely reserving a spot in my favorites.

While Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, and new Emperor may be fine with most people, this CD is great for any classic black metal fan (and maybe modern black metal fans too). Be sure to support the one-man band behind this masterpiece and buy this CD.

I find all the five star ratings a bit odd........2007-06-20

The fact that not one person gave this album anything below a five star rating really blows me away.

Personally, I believed this album to be atrocious. The production is horrible, the vocals sound as if some sort of pig-like animal is having a petrifying heart attack, and I don't think the execution of some of the instrumentals could be worse. The drums in some songs sound like Wrest is just blindly pounding away while incredibly high on E. The rest of instrumental playing is mediocre, but definitely not anything to rave about. Basically all of it sounds like one muffled mess.

I wouldn't waste your money on this.

Audio Rape..........2005-10-13

From the title of this review you might think I was reviewing some low brow goregrind CD (I'm not)... This is indeed the the equivalent of listening to someone being brutally raped and murdered with a dagger of ice. Leviathan's musick has so many dimensions it's incredible. From the walls of noise (Introit), the hyper (I don't want to say "punk") guitar riffs (Mine Molten Armor), beautiful interludes (Submersed), and the throat-slashing, merciless guitar riffs that make up most of the CD. A amazing expression of hate and isolation, depression and death. Five stars seems unjust...

1) Introit - Very creepy, best. intro. ever.

2) F-cking Your Ghost in Chains of Ice - Not only an brilliant song title, but contains the single greatest guitar riff-f-cking ever! (around 2:28 mintues into the song), The vocals are just sick. My 2nd favorite song.

3) Sardoniscorn - Pretty long song, clocking in at about nine minutes. Awesome.

4) The Bitter Emblem of Dissolve - Gastly, ghost-like vocals, another steller song.

5) Scenic Solitude and Leprosy - This song contains another brilliant guitar riff around the last minute of the song, killer opening.

6) He Whom Shadows Move Towards - Sounds like "Bitter Emblem...", pretty good song.

7) Submersed - A beautifully composed syth song (does that belong on an album like this?)... just listen to it and you'll understand.

8) Mine Molten Armor - The guitar riffs on this song are just f-cking killer, great bass part six minutes into the song, the lyrics are anti-cHRISTIAN, and would cause anyone to burn down a church!

9) The Idiot Sun - A somewhat melodic song, very good.

10) At the Door to the Tenth Sub Level of Suicide - This is the climax of the entire album, and worth the 12 dollars along, Blazing guitars and furious blastbeats, hostile shreaks and howls. Cold. I was able to decipher two words - "bitter poison", those three words give me internal/eternal frostbite everytime I hear Wrest spit them out... The last three minutes sound like some horrific struggle of the soul, between divinity and the inevitable darkness...

This is by far one of my favorite CDs, and prehaps one of the best BM albums EVER made. I would strongly suggest it to any one with the appreciation for brilliant USBM...

This is brilliant black album.......2005-04-26

This is truly a brilliant album. The black metal as it SHOULD be, which puts in shame poseurs like Dimmu Borgir and COF; lyrical concept is GREAT, depht-based... Naturally, after The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide you feel yourself in the very deep underworld of the sorrow's ocean... And "SUBMERSED" - in my personal humble opinion, of course - this is THE BEST instrumental ambient track ever written.
At the whole, this album is very depressive and makes you wish you were dead - which is the primary goal of a true black metal music, so since it's achieved, it can proudly deserve this title. And surely, this album does.

4.5. Cacophonous, but sad and beautiful too.......2005-04-05

Black Metal is definitely not one of my favorite metal styles, but at it's best it can be about as good as anything out there. Still, I'd grown a little leery of more BM as of late, because the last couple albums I'd got hadn't been so thrilling. So, It's a good thing I took another chance and got some Leviathan. This isn't quite the best Black Metal I've ever heard, but it's definitely up there.

This is some fairly hardcore music, though there's definitely some dirtier, rougher stuff out there. All recorded on 4-track, and it's pretty static-laden and thin, but it's not the sort of wall of static you sometimes hear, and you can still make out most of the instruments out fairly well. I think this has about the right balance, as the production gives it the distinctive Black metal flavoring, w/o becoming needlessly and irritatingly rough. This is a one man band,(He calls himself Wrest) and the musicianship is generally pretty basic, but that sorta stuff matters very little for BM of this sort. He is a great vocalist however. Definitely one of the best I've heard in a Black Metal band. It's a tortured, distorted and mangled roar, definitely a lot better then the sorta mildly ill croak you here quite a bit.

The album is about 72 minutes long, with 8 actual songs, so this is some moderately epic black metal. This album is actually fairly moderately paced, though they blast away quite a bit of the time, and it's got quite a few minimalistic breaks. Some people only like their BM at topspeed, but I think it often works best when you give the music some space to breathe. Some of the tracks don't really have all that many different riffs or parts, considering their lengths, but it never gets boring, which is all that really matters.

The songs generally aren't wildly different from one another, but they can be distinguished readily, with a little effort. 'The Bitter Emblem of Dissolve' is probably my favorite track. It's one of the shorter tracks, but it all works, with some powerfully atmospheric and melodic guitarwork, and Wrest's most frightful, otherworldly vocal performance. The mellow ending section is excellent too, with more nice melody that still fits the whole tone of the song well. 'Sardoniscorn' probably comes in second. It's most notable for the awesome minimalist middle break, with some great piano and more tortured vox. (You belong to us!!) The rest of the song is great too, though. 'The Idiot Sun' is another standout, being perhaps the slowest track here. It's a painful, roaring dirge, with another one of Wrest's best vocal performances. 'Submersed' is excellent too. It's just a repetitive little electronic outro, but it's really quite affecting, and fits the mood of the album well. 'At the Door to the Tenth Sub Level of Suicide' is the epic closer. Overall, it is perhaps just average for the album, but it comes to a stirring, genuinely powerful crescendo about 10 minutes in, with the sorta epic feel that reminds me of the best moments of the great Weakling. It definitely provides a good sorta exclamation point to the album.

Yeah, that's it. This is good Black Metal.

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