The Industrial Twilight: GuilThee - "Homunculus Paradoxon" [2011]

Friday, March 15, 2013

GuilThee - "Homunculus Paradoxon" [2011]

Artist: GuilThee

Title: Homunculus Paradoxon

Genre: Avant-garde Metal

Country: Hungary

Release date: 2011

Track List:

Introitus Tragoediae
Succubi
Red-Hand Succubi Theory
Chorion
The First Experiment
Manna Di San Nikola
Die Vier Junkfrauen
Digitale Gaudium
Zitije Hermesovo
Spire Disaster
Hübrisz
Útban délnek

It's been a while since my last post about Hungarian avantgarde music, so I think it's about time to review one of the most interesting Hungarian metal releases of 2011. Guilthee are an unlabellable band from Veszprém, started in 2006 by a former member of Sunseth Sphere. While their first album "Lustration" was more death metal than anything else (it was already pretty avant-garde, though), "Homunculus Paradoxon" is a whole metal opera with several male and female vocalists, incorporation elements of groove metal, industrial metal, gothic rock and psychedelic metal/rock (especially on first 3 tracks, which aren't representative of the album as a whole). My favourite track is "Chorion", but "Red-Hand Succubi Theory", "Manna Di San Nikola" and "Die Vier Junkfrauen" are quite good too... however, it's a concept album which is better to be listened as a while. And finally: not only it fits my taste almost perfectly, it's also available for free off their official site:

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