The Sleeping Beauty - Live in Israel

As a 5 song live EP, this disc is easily overlooked or just missed, but it is actually quite worthy of a few spins. The songs on here are taken from early Tiamat material- 3 songs from The Astral Sleep and two from Clouds. I enjoy Wildhoney but prefer the prior material, and this CD is a good look at some of their earlier compositions.

The disc opens with Cloud's In a Dream, a slow crusher that eventually picks up into a pretty badass speed riff with a respectable solo.

From there we have a nice little keyboard/synth interlude into the awesome Ancient Entity. It is probably the most straightforward song on the album, but has a nice breakdown around the 2:40ish something mark.

The Sleeping Beauty up next, a slower, more eerie song. There is some nice lead work on here, as well as a unique atmosphere.

Mountain of Doom is my favorite track on here. The intro is pretty damn cool, then it breaks right into that cool riff. Once again the song features a speedy segment with a good solo.

Angels Far Beyond is the last song here, and it's another solid song with a great middle section gallopy riff.


This is a good release, if you find it somewhere for cheap or if you are a big Tiamat fan it wouldn't hurt to pick this up.