SPECTRAL LORE: DEBUT NEW TRACK "Gnosis' Journey Through The Ages" VIA NO CLEAN SINGING

Greek ambient black metal warriors SPECTRAL LORE are premiering  "Gnosis' Journey Through The Ages", a track from "GNOSIS" (EP), due to be unleashed 12/7/2015 via I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS.









SPECTRAL LORE released "III". 5/2/2014 via I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS.
SPECTRAL LORE released "VOYAGER" 5/15/2015 via I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS.

FROM I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS:
NO CLEAN SINGING premieres a pre-mixed version of "Gnosis' Journey Through The Ages", one of the songs off SPECTRAL LORE's upcoming new EP, "Gnosis".
Close to 40 minutes in length, "Gnosis" will be mastered by Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts) and is due for a fall release by I, Voidhanger Records.
SPECTRAL LORE "Gnosis" CD

Out December 7th, 2015

"Gnosis" is the second part in a series of shorter and more experimental releases that SPECTRAL LORE has undertaken for 2015, each focusing on a specific style, as opposed to a regular SL full-length, which is a collection of several kinds of music. The album was born out of the idea of experimenting with oriental music, using a metal instrumentation. It was decided by Ayloss not to study the music beforehand, but to invoke the unconscious remembrance of it (one that is very present in the substratum of Greek folk music and culture) in order to get it out distorted and mixed, hopefully in an interesting way, with the usual elements of metal and western scales, to create thusly a kind of fusion.

This concept brought forth several ideas, which became the basis for not only the lyrics of the album, but for a wider philosophical and spiritual meditation which took place around the making of the album. “Gnosis” is a greek word meaning "Knowledge" and is used in the sense of mystical enlightenment. The synthesis of opposites, of conscious and unconscious, of the seemingly opposing cultures of East and West, of body and "soul", rationality and irrationality, to attain higher levels of reality. "Gnosis" goes as far as to propose a kind of evolutionary, emerging (out of matter) spirituality, in which man lies in an important place as part of the cosmos.

The vocals in this release are not uttered but performed as spaced-out whispers and screams, to further enhance the tension between current and transitory states. Mastered by Colin Marston of Krallice fame, “Gnosis” also features two compositions of acoustic nature, including actual oriental instruments such as tamboura and darbuka. Although the album's length reaches 49 minutes, it was decided to be called an EP to keep up with the initial concept and to point out its experimental nature.

TRACKLIST:

1. Dualism (8:53)
2. Gnosis' Journey Through The Ages (9:15)
3. Averroes' Search (7:53)
4. A God Made Of Flesh And Consciousness (14:06)
5. For Aleppo (9:23)

Total running time 49:30

CD in jewel case, 12-page booklet with lyrics. Art direction and layout by Francesco Gemelli.

Preview track coming soon.


FROM NO CLEAN SINGING : http://www.nocleansinging.com/2015/08/26/an-ncs-premiere-spectral-lore-gnosis-journey-through-the-ages-premix-version/

In this post we bring you a lot of news about the 2015 series of EPs being created by the fascinating Greek band SPECTRAL LORE, as well as the premiere of a pre-mixed version of a song from the band's next EP ("Gnosis"), due for a fall release by I, Voidhanger Recordsr, and a stream of the last one ("Voyager").

FROM SPECTRAL LORE: "Gnosis' Journey Through The Ages" (VIA BANDCAMP, COURTESY OF I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS):

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-