Triarii - 2008 - Muse In Arms

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Neoclassical/Martial Industrial 

Country: Germany

Label:  Eternal Soul Records

Format: MP3@CBR 320 Kbps

Size: 117 mb 

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"There is a decidedly imperial tone to Triarii's third album "Muse in Arms", thunderous percussion and swooping orchestral arrangements abound throughout the duration of this record. Triarii employ a devious sense of both historical somberness and a righteous indignation at the world as it is today. Christian Erdmann, who is Triarii, makes quite the photogenic poster boy for teutonic aloofness and Mediterranean cool. I look through the liner notes of this vindictive album and who do I find in the credits, none other than ambient/experimental/"martial" pioneer J. Hauvukainen. The man behind In Slaughter Natives. It all coalesces upon this little revelation just why it is that I'm so beguiled by the sounds of "Muse in Arms". This is not to say that Mr. Erdmann is without merit on his own, as his previous two albums clearly show but the stridency has been tempered by some requiem-esque symphonic passages which rend my soul. Having a pair of ears belonging to the likes of In Slaughter Natives mastering your work is never a bad thing for this line of music. Triarii is an act that when one closes their eyes they can see things happening to. Whether these things are good or not is entirely up to the disposition of the listener. As he clearly states in the sleeve: "Art is never only left or right, nor is it only black or white. Life is not that simple". I suppose the closest approximation I could make for how this album rates to me would be to compare it to the first time I heard Sophia's "Herbstwerk" in 2001. I simply did not know exquisite beauty could be contained in the midst of such bombastic overtures. This truly is a splendid record, one which I happen to think is quite pretty, despite the tones of aggression which like leaded lashes leave their scars across it's porcelain skin." 

by Peter Marks

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Triarii - 2007 - Ars Militaria (Reissue)

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Neoclassical/Martial Industrial 

Country: Germany

Label:  Eternal Soul Records

Format: MP3@CBR 320 Kbps

Size: 119 mb 

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"12 tracks of finest heroic and bombastic military pop. Layers of snare drums, heavy orchestral strings, overwhelming fanfares and marches, historical samples and noises break down over the listeners head like a fatal thunderstorm. Essential!" 

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Triarii - 2006 - Pièce Héroique

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Neoclassical/Martial Industrial 

Country: Germany

Label:  Eternal Soul Records

Format: MP3@CBR 320 Kbps

Size: 125 mb 

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"Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant. So creep Triarii on ‘Pièce Héroique’, their cindery follow-up to ‘ars militaria’, a triumphal arch of bombast and orchestral swells limned with choir and dark vocals. Encapsulating the Trajan typeface dominating the album’s cover in strong caps – puissant blocks of line, crisp geometrically carved serifs, and curving harmonic arches – so enfolds the music that launches with the opening track, ‘Le Crépuscule Des Dieux’. Accentuating a dark glory of Empire strings lend the air minatory aplomb, marching without percussion usher arteries of choir and strings offering skyward libations to swell in a grandiose climax. This initial inertia drives the entire album, a military mantle of resolute and unequivocal delivery, crepuscular as it is uplifting. Without detracting from the inexplicable presence of ‘Pièce Héroique’, this album picks up where Puissance reached, if rarely. Tracks like ‘On Wings of Steel’ lash bone, flesh and iron as carapace of an army streaming death on a battlefield, a chilling anthem that give pause to all those that would oppose, growling sinister lyrics of inescapable intention. Triarii plough an epic across earth and sky, churning the defeated with ritual percussion, eddying strings and heralding the end of dawn, the end of day on French horns. Not all tracks feature lyrical content, preferring instead to mix instrumental movements amidst thunderous military argot, breaking the intense aphasiac bolides with valedictory parallax as one’s body bleeds under the booted feet of the passing legionnaires. Guest featuring on the album on ‘Roses 4 Rome’, comes welcome repast with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, in a folk epic classic meshing Tomas Pettersson’s fomenting vocals and guitar with the aegis of Triarii’s orchestration. ‘Kingdom of the Blind’ peels away journey for destruction, a dark ambient monologue of chaos and ululations from the deep as the very earth quivers, illumination of a stark aftermath where surface the subtle symphony experimenting in desperate dimensions. Incarnation emits from ruins of ‘Heaven and Hell’, like moths from chrysalis the dark symphony scatters at the demagogue commandments. The entire album falls short of a full sixty minutes, yet by the end of the fusillades the listener is well and truly mollified, subdued, peeled of skin and dreams of anything else but a world crowned in crumbling Corinthian pillars and ashes of civilization. With ‘Pièce Héroique’, Triarii have supplanted the mettle of their previous recordings, showing the potency that they so keenly deliver here."

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