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In 1987, Tiamat was formed in Stockholm, Sweden as Treblinka. Treblinka released two demo tapes, "Crawling in Vomits" and "The Sign of the Pentagram", before changing their name and releasing the 1990 debut full-length Sumerian Cry. Tiamat was originally a black metalband in the vein of other early 90's innovators like Samaeland Mayhem, but influenced by the likes of Mercyful Fateand Candlemassthey gradually dropped their extreme metal stylings in favour of a psychedelic/progressive heavy/doom metal sound in the mid 90's. The very Pink Floydinspired, though within metal then quite innovative, use of keyboards and acoustic guitars, peaked with their 1997 A Deeper Kind of Slumber, now nearly completely lacking any semblance of metal. After this, the band changed to a gothic rock/metal style that their last 3 albums have stuck fairly close to.

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