Reinkaos

Reinkaos
Studio album by
Released30 April 2006 (Europe)
16 May 2006 (North America)
StudioBlack Horizon Music
(via The End Records in North America)
Genre
Length43:06
LabelBlack Horizon
Dissection chronology
Maha Kali
(2004)
Reinkaos
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[2]
AllMusic[3]
Blabbermouth.net3/10[4]
Chronicles of Chaos6/10[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[6]
Metal.de7/10[7]

Reinkaos (stylised as REINKAΩS) is the third and final studio album by Swedish black/melodic death metal band Dissection. It was released through the band's own label Black Horizon Music, which they had formed "out of the need of taking charge of our own business and making things our own way, without compromise".[8] Reinkaos is also available as autographed limited first edition: CD packed in exclusive embossed slipcase, limited to 1,001 hand-numbered copies signed by the band members; including the music video for "Starless Aeon" and a sticker.

Musical style and lyrics

The album is less influenced by traditional black metal and closer to traditional heavy metal[9] than Dissection's former albums, but, according to Decibel journalist Chris D., still "very much Nödtveidt and very much Dissection".[10] The lyrics reflect the occult tenets of the Misanthropic Luciferian Order (MLO) and are "based on invocations and formulas that have been linked into the lyrics to evoke the powers that they represent. Occult musical theory has been applied in the song writing process as a means of symbolically charging their structures. They have also been written inspired by scientific ideas such as string theory. The songs have all been written with the intention of using sounds and vibrations as an Anti-Cosmic tool and they have all been consciously created to be the vessels for these powers."[8] In the grimoire Liber Azerate, released by the MLO, reinchaos is defined as "the return to chaos and acausal existence."[11]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Nexion 218"1:32
2."Beyond the Horizon"5:20
3."Starless Aeon"3:59
4."Black Dragon"4:48
5."Dark Mother Divine"5:44
6."Xeper-i-Set"3:09
7."Chaosophia"0:41
8."God of Forbidden Light"3:42
9."Reinkaos" (instrumental)4:43
10."Internal Fire"3:20
11."Maha Kali"6:04
Total length:43:06

Personnel

Guest appearances

  • Brice Leclercq − bass
  • Additional vocals on "Maha Kali" by Nyx 218
  • Additional backing vocals by Erik Danielsson and Whiplasher Bernadotte

References

  1. ^ Kelly, Kim. "Cloak's Southern Gothic Debut Is Full of Heavy Metal Magic". Vice Media. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  2. ^ Chad Bowar: Dissection - Reinkaos, accessed on 25 May 2013.
  3. ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Reinkaos - Dissection, accessed on 25 May 2013.
  4. ^ Blabbermouth (5 June 2006). "Reinkaos". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  5. ^ Smit, Jackie (15 May 2006). "CoC : Dissection - Reinkaos : Review". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  6. ^ Popoff, Martin; Perri, David (2011). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 132. ISBN 9781-926592-20-6.
  7. ^ Thomas (31 May 2006). "Dissection - Reinkaos Review". metal.de. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  8. ^ a b Interview for the Fans by the Fans. Final Interview with Jon Nödtveidt, accessed on 25 May 2013.
  9. ^ Dissection. ReinkaΩs. In: Metal Hammer, July 2006, p. 100.
  10. ^ Chris D.: Justify Your Shitty Taste – Dissection's "Reinkaos" Archived 30 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine, 13 April 2011, accessed on 25 May 2013.
  11. ^ Nemesis Khoshnood-Sharis (aka Frater Nemidial). Liber Azerate (PDF). Temple of the Black Light. p. 31. (in Swedish)