Global InformationMelana Chasmata information
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| Studio album by Triptykon | ||||
| Released | 14 April 2014 (Europe) 15 April 2014 (North America) | |||
| Recorded | November 2013 – January 2014 | |||
| Studio | Various
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| Length | 66:52 75:16 (Japanese) | |||
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| Metacritic | 82/100 link |
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| About.com |  link |
| All About the Rock |   link |
| Exclaim! |  link |
| Kerrang | link |
| MetalSucks | link |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.7/10) link |
| PopMatters | link |
| Sputnikmusic |  link |
Melana Chasmata is the second full-length album by Swiss extreme metal band Triptykon, released through Prowling Death Records /Century Media Records on 14 April 2014 in Europe and on 15 April 2014 in North America. The album was officially announced on 22 October 2013 by the band's frontman, Thomas Gabriel Fischer (a.k.a. "Tom Warrior"), on his official blog.[1]
The title is in Greek (Μελανά Χάσματα) and, according to Fischer, it can be roughly translated as "black, deep depressions/valleys" — or, more literally, "chasms as [black as] ink".
The album's artwork was provided by famous Surrealist painter H. R. Giger. It is the third time in his career he has collaborated with Thomas Fischer; Giger also provided artwork for Fischer's former band Celtic Frost's first full-length, To Mega Therion, in 1985, and to Triptykon's debut Eparistera Daimones in 2010. It was Giger's last album cover before his death, just one month after the album's release.
A music video for the track "Aurorae" was released on 7 August 2014. Another video, to "Tree of Suffocating Souls", was released on 17 November 2014. Song In The Sleep of Death is referring to Emily Brontë as about a lost love.[2][3]
- ^ "Triptykon Press Release, 2013". Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ "Emily Brontë: Death Metal Darling". Paste Magazine. 25 May 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "Triptykon Biography". www.triptykon.net. Retrieved 5 September 2016.