Invocation (Sympathy album)
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Invocation is the 2002 debut album by the Canadian technical death metal
band Sympathy
. The album was published by Fear Dark, a Dutch record label.
Although suffering from low production values, the album got positive feedback in underground metal circles and magazines such as BW & BK
and was mentioned in Metal Maniacs magazine as one of the reader's albums of the year for 2002. Noted for solid songwriting, Sympathy has since re-recorded several of the album's songs with better production.
The music features deep growling, occasional shrieking, heavily-distorted guitar sound, plenty of tempo-changes and atonal riffs, some symphonic keyboards and computer drums. "Prelude and Toccata in e Minor" is a piano instrumental, and "Christus Factus Est" features operatic female vocals. The album cover was done by Jeffray Arwadi of Soundmind Graphics, also known as the guitarist/vocalist for the Indonesian avant-garde metal band Kekal
.
Technical death metal
Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...
band Sympathy
Sympathy (band)
Sympathy is a technical death metal band from Canada, formed in 1991. Sympathy got some notable attention in the Benelux, Germany and Switzerland as those are the countries where their previous label Fear Dark is usually marketing its bands. The band is known for its professional musicianship...
. The album was published by Fear Dark, a Dutch record label.
Although suffering from low production values, the album got positive feedback in underground metal circles and magazines such as BW & BK
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and was mentioned in Metal Maniacs magazine as one of the reader's albums of the year for 2002. Noted for solid songwriting, Sympathy has since re-recorded several of the album's songs with better production.
The music features deep growling, occasional shrieking, heavily-distorted guitar sound, plenty of tempo-changes and atonal riffs, some symphonic keyboards and computer drums. "Prelude and Toccata in e Minor" is a piano instrumental, and "Christus Factus Est" features operatic female vocals. The album cover was done by Jeffray Arwadi of Soundmind Graphics, also known as the guitarist/vocalist for the Indonesian avant-garde metal band Kekal
Kekal
Kekal is a heavy metal band formed in 1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to Allmusic, Kekal was one of the first heavy metal bands from Indonesia to make international inroads, and according to Keith Kahn Harris was one of the few extreme metal bands from Southeast Asia to ever make more than a...
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Track listing
- "Invocation" - 4:24
- "Fey Illusion" - 4:13
- "Occupy" - 5:05
- "Circle of Light" - 5:16
- "Final Ordeal" - 4:47
- "Cup of Demons" - 4:13
- "Arise" - 4:04
- "Realm of Disease" - 5:01
- "Prelude and Toccata in e Minor" - 2:18
- "Christus Factus Est" - 2:54
- "Immolation of the Dragon" - 2:24
- "Death of the Immortals" - 2:17