A Deeper Kind of Slumber

Infobox Album | Name = A Deeper Kind of Slumber
Type = studio
Artist = Tiamat


Released = August 12, 1997
Recorded = January - March 1997
Genre = Gothic metal, avant-garde metal, industrial metal
Length = 59:57
Label = Century Media
Producer = Dirk Draeger
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lmf2zfdoeh8k link] |Last album = "Wildhoney"
(1994)
This album = "A Deeper Kind of Slumber"
(1997)
Next album = "Skeleton Skeletron" (1999)

"A Deeper Kind of Slumber" is the 1997 Century Media Records release by Swedish band Tiamat.

Featuring female background vocals by Birgit Zacher (Moonspell, Angel Dust) and traits of experimental (psychedelic rock, stoner rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion, industrial rock, Middle Eastern acoustics as well as Classical and Symphonic rock), the album marked the group's first complete withdrawal from both death metal and traditional heavy metal, following their 1994 release, Wildhoney. It was also the first production after their relocation to Germany, and was written almost entirely by founder/lead songwriter Johan Edlund. Much of the music had reflected on Edlund's personal problems dealing with drugs, creative differences within the band as well as an interpersonal relationship.

It was produced by both Edlund and Dirk Draeger.

Track listing

# Cold Seed
# Teonanacatl
# Trillion Zillion Centipedes
# The Desolate One
# Atlantis as a Lover
# Alteration X 10
# Four Leary Biscuits
# Only in My Tears It Lasts
# The Whores Of Babylon
# Kite
# Phantasma De Luxe
# Mount Marilyn
# A Deeper Kind of Slumber