A Terrible Beauty Is Born

by Ur Kaos

A Terrible Beauty Is Born cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: U.R. Records
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 45:21
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Mats Paulsson, Johan Hedren, Lach'n Jonsson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Emerging from the Swedish avant-garde, 'A Terrible Beauty Is Born' constructs dense, challenging frameworks of complex progressive rock. The group incorporates bizarre instrumentation and stark, angular rhythms to create a heavily ritualistic, uncompromisingly experimental soundscape.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, experimental, distorted, noisy, progressive, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Shelter (2:39)
  2. Screen Icon (2:51)
  3. A Testimony (3:05)
  4. The Face Defaced (3:14)
  5. Terrible Mildness Of The Morning (3:33)
  6. A Criminal View From Beyond (2:46)
  7. The Fire Of Time. (4:22)
  8. The Hearse (2:40)
  9. Repeating Icon (2:37)
  10. Modern Man (3:08)
  11. Where Angels Fear To Tread (1:27)
  12. Not Yet Crumbled Icon (1:11)
  13. Ill Excerpt (2:55)
  14. The Furies (2:45)
  15. The Wheels (2:46)
  16. The Endless Laughter (3:14)

Credits

  • Ur Kaos - primary artist, lyrics by
  • Roj Friberg - cover, artwork [cover drawing by]
  • Johan Hedren - musician, performer [all music created and performed by]
  • Lach'n Jonsson - musician, performer [all music created and performed by]
  • Mats Paulsson - musician, performer [all music created and performed by]
  • Magnus Alexanderson - performer [some parts are results of a fruitful collaboration with]
  • Aeschylus - words by

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