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Prodigal Sun Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered

The Afflicted Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (September 30, 2008)
  • limited_edition edition
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Massacre Germany
  • ASIN: B001AZ8BBO
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,570 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 starsDiverse and ground-breaking
By phobos on March 18, 2004
Format: Audio CD
This album is a strange mix of ground-breaking material that still sounds innovative and fresh over 10 years after its release, along with some fairly dated moments that place it firmly back in the days when death metal was still gaining momentum. There are some pretty thrashy parts here and there. With that said, though, this is an extremely unique and often amazing album. It incorporates some diverse elements (sitar, for instance) and uses them in really original ways, mixing them intermittently with brutal metal. In this way it reminds me of Theory in Practice's first album. Although this band never received much attention, I think it quietly influenced a lot of bands. It's weird for the sake of being weird, I guess, but this approach often pushes metal forward. In terms of originality and willingness to experiment, I would put this in the same league as great technical death bands like Atheist, although it is not quite as technical. Unfortuately, as seems to be the case for oddball music of this sort, this band is almost unknown (my CD languished at my local used CD store for over 3 years, before I bought it on a whim, and I live in a big city). My only complaint is that I would have liked more of the weird acoustic/ethnic moments.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat Metal!
By A. Urribarri on April 5, 2005
Format: Audio CD
Well, a friend of mine had this Afflicted Prodigal Sun on tape a long time ago, and i get a copy of that tape and since then I just wanted to have that record on CD, finaly I have one!!
this album reminds me in certain parts Entombed's Clandestine, and some lead guitars like Dismember first album, I think it's the scandinavian metal sound of the 90's! really cool! but maybe with some innovative sound that makes very special this album, I can't say if it is progressive or technical the sound on each song, but without being soft, they mantain the brutality on their riffs and blasting drums as well as in rythmic parts. For sure it's a great sound that deserves to pay attention.
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4.0 out of 5 starsPleasant Surprise
By Justin G. TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on April 3, 2007
Format: Audio CD
Did you ever notice how it's always one of those cheap cut-out bin albums that ends up completely surprising you? I picked up the 1992 debut album Prodigal Sun by Afflicted on a whim when I saw it in a clearance bin, and it ended up impressing me a great deal.

This album has a few things going for it right off the bat, namely (a) they're Swedish, (b) they're a death metal band, and (c) they're from the early 90's. The Swedish death metal scene in the 1990's was extremely strong, and while Afflicted obviously didn't have the same impact as At the Gates and In Flames, they still lived up to that high level of quality.

Prodigal Sun is a very thrash-influenced death metal album, fast paced and with harsh vocals. It's not as melodic as what the Gothenburg bands were releasing, but it's not your basic Cannibal Corpse death metal either. There's enough experimentation (i.e. instrumental passages, Eastern sounds) to keep things interesting, though by and large this is a put it in and bang your head kind of album! I think the closest points of comparison are fellow Swedes Ceremonial Oath and Tales From the Thousand Lakes-era Amorphis.

Death metal fans would do well to check out Prodigal Sun, especially if you're fortunate enough to run across it at a clearance rate.
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3.0 out of 5 starsNo entity of light will save you
By Grond on March 5, 2009
Format: Audio CD
Soul-searching progressive death metal from Sweden, avoiding reliance for its primary communication on established death metal standards, rather using the tools of its genre trade in the manner which progressive rock bands use 'rock' elements. The result is death metal as if played by a 1970s progressive rock band. The psychedelic atmosphere and the cosmic and sometimes spiral melodies reminiscent of space rock give this music a strange character not typically associated with death metal. The compositions are quite involved; not to the extent that it is 'complex', but rather, like the best of 'experimental' music, its many sections are organized in a fashion that suggests haphazardness, or jam-room randomness passed off as 'improvisational', yet intentionally resolves itself in aesthetically logical and pleasing conclusions. Though the music contains identifiable elements of early 1990s Swedish death metal, particularly the guitar melodies and leads, not to mention the Sunlight Studio production, which peculiarly merge the dark and the translucent, this band's adventurousness separated it from its contemporaries of the time (1992), most of whom were hoping to cash in on the success of Entombed and other forerunners of the Swedish scene. Prodigal Sun sounds like nothing else that was being produced in Sweden at the time of its release, but it's the music's substance that allows this freshness its validity.

"Now... stop looking to the skies
no entity of light will help you
now... who created who?
Did man create god?"

The music is performed with an abundance of energy and skill, and this combined with the intelligence of structural design, especially the awareness of mood dynamic, makes this an exciting listen.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsold school metal
By Eric Johnson on March 31, 2008
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this is one of the most interesting bands from back in the day deathmetal with an edge of the 60s rock i call it twisted metal you call it what you want this cd came out on nuclear blast america in the early 90s its rare and out of print i pute this band up on the top with bands like pungent stench, dismember, autopsy, death and obituary no their not so intence like these bands listed but their up thier different i would say take care,metal onward
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