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SPECTRAL
LORE
Ayloss
- all instruments and vocals
Less than a year after "Sol," the acclaimed conceptual
split album with Mare Cognitum, Greece's SPECTRAL
LORE release "III", their magnum opus of
progressive black metal and cosmic ambient. In the works
since 2008, half of the recordings were kept from being
completed because of production and mixing problems. To
vent off frustration, the album "Sentinel" had been
written and produced in 2012 during an intense period of
3 months, allowing the band's sole member Ayloss to
acquire the necessary production skills to successfully
complete "III", considered by Ayloss himself as SPECTRAL
LORE's best work to date.
"Lyrically and conceptually 'III' marks a passage from
the internal to the external, from the individual to
cosmic destiny," explains Ayloss. "It aspires for humans
to discover the importance of their own existence and
the potential of their effect, negating the pessimism
and existential nihilism that are ever-present in black
metal. It aspires for Man to ask the greatest questions
and to come up with answers, even as naive or limited as
they might seem at the moment. The deepest, most
beautiful dream is that which is in tune with the
Universe."
Divided into 2 parts – "Singularity" (tracks 1-4) and
"Eternity" (tracks 5-7) – "III" will come as a luxurious
6-panel double digipack with a 20-page full color
booklet graced by a magnificent cover art courtesy of
the renowned American symbolist painter Benjamin
Vierling (Nightbringer, Weapon, Aosoth, Avichi, Watain).
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DISCOGRAPHY
III
- CD (I, Voidhanger Records -
2014)
SOL - Split with MARE
COGNITUM
- CD (I, Voidhanger Records -
2013)
SPECTRAL LORE/LOCUST LEAVES
- Split CD (Order Of Theta - 2012)
SENTINEL - CD (Stellar
Auditorium Productions - 2012)
UNDERJORDISKA/SPECTRAL LORE
- Split CD (Stellar Auditorium
Prod. - 2008)
SENTINEL - CD (Stellar
Auditorium Productions - 2012)
II - CD (Self-released,
2007 - Reissued by Temple Of Torturous, 2010)
I - CD (Saturnine Society,
2006 - Reissued by Temple Of Torturous, 2010)
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LINKS
Bandcamp
