Skeleton Skeletron is the 1999 album release by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 band Tiamat

Tiamat (band)

-Biography:Initially, the band played straightforward black metal under the name Treblinka. After having recorded the album Sumerian Cry in 1989, vocalist/guitarist Johan Edlund and bassist Jörgen Thullberg parted ways with the other two founding members, and subsequently changed the name to Tiamat...

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Following A Deeper Kind of Slumber

A Deeper Kind of Slumber

A Deeper Kind of Slumber is the 1997 Century Media Records release by Swedish band Tiamat.Featuring female background vocals by Birgit Zacher and traits of experimental , the album marked the group's first complete withdrawal...

, the band took a less ambiguous direction to their style, utilizing a Gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

-based sound but with various atmospheric soundscapes/effects and female background vocals added in.

"Church of Tiamat" (Track #1) is also the name of the band's official website.

The end of the songs "As Long as You Are Mine" and "Lucy" include quotes of French poet Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional...

's entire fable

Fable

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized , and that illustrates a moral lesson , which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.A fable differs from...

 Le Loup et l’Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb

The Wolf and the Lamb

The Wolf and the Lamb is a well known fable of Aesop and is numbered 155 in the Perry Index. There are several variant stories of tyrannical injustice in which a victim is falsely accused and killed despite a reasonable defence.-The fable and its variants:...

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Track listing

1. "Church of Tiamat" – 4:52
2. "Brighter Than the Sun" (Video for single released as well) – 4:08
3. "Dust is Our Fare" – 5:02
4. "To Have and Have Not" – 5:09
5. "For Her Pleasure" – 5:03
6. "Diyala" – 1:25
7. "Sympathy for the Devil
   Sympathy for the Devil
   "Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by The Rolling Stones which first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1968 album Beggars Banquet. It was written by Mick Jagger credited to Jagger/Richards...
   
   " (Rolling Stones cover) – 5:20
8. "Best Friend Money Can Buy" – 4:35
9. "As Long as You Are Mine" – 4:40
10. "Lucy" – 5:17

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Swedish Albums Chart	56