Amor Fati [Import]

Peccatum | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Candlelight
• ASIN: B00004Y9U7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #548,815 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. One Play. No Script.

2. No Title for a Cause

3. Murder

4. A Game Divine?

5. Rise, Ye Humans

6. Between the Living and the Dead

7. The Watchers Mass

8. The Watchers Mass

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind Blowing, January 6, 2002

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Destructhor (João Pessoa, Brazil.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amor Fati (Audio CD)

Ihsahn's talent is just mind blowing , this cd proves it again.

5.0 out of 5 stars Artistry Given Form and Flesh, April 11, 2008

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Ty Arthur "xFiruath" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amor Fati (Audio CD)

Discord, disorder, and strife are staples of the black metal genre. Music in this vein tends to be chaotic and aggressive. Composure, harmony, and cohesion are staples of the classical genre. Music in this vein tends to be unified and subdued. When classically minded musicians decide that black metal will be their chosen form of artistic expression, bands like Emperor are born. They produce disturbingly chaotic and insanely aggressive music that is bound together by an overall cohesive unity that is not always immediately apparent, but that clearly comes into view as the music is explored more fully. When bands like Emperor tire of catering to their fans expectations and being as minimally mainstream as they are; when they decide to cast aside all preconceived notions of what genre or type of music they should be creating; when their only goal becomes to rip their desires, emotions, and fears directly out of their souls and display them in all their ugly glory through the medium of music, then bands like Peccatum are born.

Peccatum is composed of Emperor front man Ihsahn and his wife Ihriel, and it is clear that neither of them at any point contemplated whether anyone else would enjoy this album, or play it's tracks on the radio, or if they should have added or removed certain elements to make it more popular to sell more copies. Amor Fati successfully marries the technical and complicated guitar work that Ihshan tried to integrate into Emperor, much to the fans consternation and general hatred of Emperor's final album, with Ihriel's disturbingly beautiful shrieks and purposefully off-key singing that also would have never been accepted in a standard black metal album. People who despise black metal and other forms of non-mainstream music will likewise be united with adherents to traditional black and death metal in absolutely hating Peccatum for its unique sound, and that is most definitely a sign that this band is at the forefront of advancing music into the next era.

Amor Fati is in no way concerned with sticking to one typified genre of music throughout its 44 minute and 30 second auditory experience. What may start as a hauntingly lovely violin piece, the very height of heavenly sound for the higher class listener, will suddenly descend into unknowable screams and growls or perhaps a maddeningly complex guitar arrangement, or even an unbelievable combination of all three elements. The guitar work never ties itself down to any one style either, frequently moving smoothly from heavily distorted thrash riffs to more benign and soothing song structures. The whole thing is really carried by Ihriel's vocals, which usually punctuate important moments during each song and serve to draw the listener further into the music.

Taking the journey into Amor Fati is an exploration in the deeper regions of experience. It will be considered angelic to some, and demonic to others. Those who will truly appreciate this music will understand that the two labels are really one and the same, and that it is only the listener's point of view that will determine whether they choose to label it the former or the latter.

4.0 out of 5 stars very good!, September 25, 2005

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Christopher L. Brunner (fort bragg, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amor Fati (Audio CD)

This a noticable improvement from their first album. The opening blows away anything they'd done previously, and the next two full-length songs were equally as great. It starts to dwindle down near the end, but the first three full songs and the instrumentals are more than worth the price of the CD. And though Iriel sings offkey, it fits the music perfectly. And Insahn...what can be said that hasn't been said before? Great Cd.