Botanist - VIII: Selenotrope (2023)

Botanist - VIII: Selenotrope

Год/Year: 2023
Стиль/Style: Experimental Post-Black Metal
Страна/Country: United States
mp3 320

Треклист /Tracklist

1. Against the Selenic Light 06:10
2. Risen from the Rain 06:47
3. Epidendrum Nocturnum 04:07
4. Mirabilis 06:58
5. Angel's Trumpet 06:59
6. Selenotrope 04:33
7. Sword of the Night 06:02
t: 56:29

Участники/line-up

Otrebor Vocals, Drums, Hammered dulcimer
Daturus Drums
Tony Thomas Bass
Randall Krieger Dulcimer
Mar Vocals

Only a very few original metal acts emerge each decade from the mass of bands that are stylistically easy to label. BOTANIST are both in musical and lyrical aspects one of those unique bands that are obviously different. Now, the act's eleventh full-length, "VIII: Selenotrope" is announced. On the eighth solo album by the project, and the first since "VI: Flora" (2014), mastermind Otrebor again sends sprigs into new sonic directions. Although the band's roots in black metal still shimmer through the dense foliage, this sprawling, straggling, blooming creation is an exuberantly growing, varied musical meditation. "The title "VIII: Selenotrope" refers to plants that flower in moonlight. BOTANIST's characteristic sound of the hammered dulcimer combines perfectly with now predominantly clean vocals that are often arranged into multi-layered choirs, resulting in an entangling, highly dynamic album that comes together in a singular piece of music seemingly taking influence from all avant-garde, progressive, experimental, post-metal, and other possible descriptions - the validity of which very much depends on each individual listener. "VIII: Selenotrope" is not made to fit into just one drawer." All songs of this project are told from the perspective of a protagonist called "The Botanist". He is characterised as a crazed man of science that lives in self-imposed exile, as far away from Humanity and its crimes against Nature as possible. more:
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