Greek ambient black metal warrior SPECTRAL LORE, via BANDCAMP, are
streaming "THE SORCERER ABOVE THE CLOUDS" , a track from the projects anticipated new release "Ετερόφωτος" due to be unleashed 4/23/2021 via I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS.
SPECTRAL LORE unleashed a SPLIT with MARE COGNITUM "ASTROLOGY OF THE NINE", 3/13/2020 via I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS.
SPECTRAL LORE unleashed "HELIAN", a SPLIT with JUTE GYTE. 1/18/2018 via I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS.
SPECTRAL LORE unleashed "FOSSILS", 12/31/2016 via BANDCAMP (DIGITAL-SELF RELEASED).
FROM I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS: :
Fresh from the success of
“Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine” – a split album released in 2020 with
MARE COGNITUM, their usual cosmic traveling companion – SPECTRAL LORE
return with “Ετερόφωτος”, their brand new and highly anticipated
full-length, destined to setting the whole progressive/atmospheric black
metal scene on fire. Released seven years after the groundbreaking
“III” (2014), actually “Ετερόφωτος” carries on from where 2012's
“Sentinel” left on both lyrical and musical level, thus marking another
separate series of albums than the ones labeled by Roman numerals, with
the “Gnosis” EP from 2015 lying somewhere in the middle. “Ετερόφωτος” is
a word without an exact translation in English: In approximation it
means "the one whose light comes from others".
If SPECTRAL LORE themselves originally described “Sentinel” as epic and
transcendental black metal, music to inspire the warrior spirit and
through it achieve spiritual transcendence, “Ετερόφωτος” walks similar
emotional paths with greater maturity and awareness, and can be seen as a
comment on its predecessor's
... more
Recorded and mixed in the Stellar Auditorium by Ayloss, 2017-2020
Noise Electronics on "Apocalypse" by Spider of Pnyx
Remixing from stems and mastering by Colin Marston
Cover painting by Alessandro Sicioldr
Art direction and layout by Francesco Gemelli
SPECTRAL LORE: NEW TRACK "THE SORCERER ABOVE THE CLOUDS" (VIA BANDCAMP , COURTESY OF SPECTRAL LORE):
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-