Hermeticum
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Hermeticum is the only album released by the side project band of Moonspell
members Daemonarch
. It was released in August 1998.
Moonspell
Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band from Brandoa, Lisbon. Formed in 1992, the group released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before the release of their first album Wolfheart...
members Daemonarch
Daemonarch
Daemonarch was a side project band constituted by 4 of the 5 then-members of the Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell. Only one album was released, named Hermeticum. The album is born from a compilation of poetry wrote by Fernando Ribeiro between the ages of 14 and 16....
. It was released in August 1998.
Track listing
- "Lex TalionisAn eye for an eyeThe meaning of the principle, an eye for an eye, is that a person who has injured another person receives the same injury in compensation. The exact Latin to English translation of this phrase is actually "The law of retaliation." At the root of this principle is that one of the purposes of the...
" – 5:32 - "Of a Thousand Young" – 4:27
- "Corpus Hermeticum" – 4:51
- "Call From the Grave (BathoryBathory (band)Bathory was a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by Quorthon in 1983. They are regarded as pioneers of both black metal and viking metal. Quorthon remained the main songwriter and member of Bathory for more than two decades. Bathory was permanently ended after Quorthon's death in 2004...
cover)" – 4:37 - "SamyazaSamyazaSamyaza also Semihazah, Shemyazaz, Sêmîazâz, Semjâzâ, Samjâzâ, Shemyaza, and Shemhazai. is a fallen angel of apocryphal Jewish and Christian tradition that ranked in the heavenly hierarchy as one of the Grigori...
" – 4:27 - "Nine Angles" – 5:38
- "IncubusIncubus (demon)An incubus is a demon in male form who, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions, lies upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have intercourse with them. Its female counterpart is the succubus...
" – 4:44 - "The Seventh Daemonarch" – 6:17
- "Hymn to LuciferLuciferTraditionally, Lucifer is a name that in English generally refers to the devil or Satan before being cast from Heaven, although this is not the original meaning of the term. In Latin, from which the English word is derived, Lucifer means "light-bearer"...
" – 4:11