''Paracletus'' is the fifth full-length
studio album recorded by the French
black metal
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band
Deathspell Omega
Deathspell Omega is a French black metal band formed in 1998 in Poitiers. Their lyrical content deals primarily with Satanism on a metaphysical level – as the band has stated that "all other interpretations of Satan are intellectually invali ...
, released on 9 November 2010 through Norma Evangelium Diaboli along with
Season of Mist. It is the third part in their
metaphysical
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trilogy of albums representing God, the Devil and Man (following ''
Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice
''Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice'' is the third full-length album by black metal band Deathspell Omega. The album title is a grammatically mis-quoted version of the Latin epitaph on the tomb of Christopher Wren in St Paul's Cathedral (built ...
'' and ''
Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum'').
The term ''
paracletus'' is the Latinised form of the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
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word ''παράκλητος (parákletos)'', meaning ''comforter''. It is another name for the
Holy Spirit.
Stylistically the album continues in the experimental vein of their previous work since 2004.
The tracks are mostly continuous, being more movements of a larger piece than individual songs, although there are slight pauses in between tracks 3 and 4 and between tracks 5 and 6. The track "Devouring Famine" was released as a free download by Season of Mist approximately three weeks before the album's release.
Track listing
See also
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Abscission
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Apocatastasis
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Epiclesis
The epiclesis (also spelled epiklesis; from grc, ἐπίκλησις "surname" or "invocation") refers to the invocation of one or several gods. In ancient Greek religion, the epiclesis was the epithet used as the surname given to a deity in reli ...
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Paraclete
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Phosphene
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References
Deathspell Omega albums
Season of Mist albums
2010 albums
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