Top 10 Songs on Septicflesh's Codex Omega
Septicflesh have been nicknamed "the Gods of orchestral extreme metal" - they play Atmospheric/Symphonic Death Metal. Some Septicflesh songs include short sections with clean vocals.Septicflesh are from Greece, formed in 1990.
Lyrical themes: Fantasy, Mythology, Occultism, H.P. Lovecraft
Codex Omega is their 10th album and came out in Sept 2017 - a metal album with no bad songs. Every member did a great job, songs are very well written, symphonic orchestration is perfectly composed and executed, and even the cover art is very good.
And yes, mixing and mastering are almost perfect, too - it's not easy to mix successfully elements from extreme metal and classical symphonic (Jens Bogren from Sweden).
Format: 2CD (the 2nd CD contains bonus tracks)
Credits - band members:
Spiros Antoniou - Bass, Vocals (harsh), Artwork
Christos Antoniou - Guitars, Orchestrations
Sotiris Vayenas - Guitars, Guitars (12-string), Vocals (clean), Lyrics
Kerim "Krimh" Lechner - Drums
Other:
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - Orchestra
Jens Bogren - Producer, Mixing, Mastering
The Top Ten
1 Dante's Inferno
It was difficult to put the songs in a particular order because they are all great - I would give this album a 10/10 (I rarely give 10/10).
2 Dark Art
3 Faceless Queen
4 3rd Testament (Codex Omega)
5 The Gospels of Fear
6 Enemy of Truth
7 Portrait of a Headless Man
This song is slower than the average of this album (there's an official video clip to this song)
8 Martyr
There's an official video clip to this song
9 Trinity
10 Our Church, Below the Sea
This song is softer and has more clean vox than their songs usually have but it's very good. What can I say? Even the song at #10 is absolutely awesome. And even the bonus tracks are...
Great gob, Septicflesh!
The Contenders
11 Martyr of Truth
Amazing bonus track
12 Dark Testament
Bonus track from CD2
13 Portrait of a Headless Man (Orchestral Version)
Awesome bonus track from CD2
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