Black Metal with lots of convoluted athmospheres
I'm quite satisfied with the logo, which is - as generally accepted, the most important thing in this genre (even though a friend suggested "it is even too much kŏm″prĭ-hĕn′sə-bəl to be a black metal logo...").
Tracklist:
Det Kemiska Bröllopet
Overture
Part I - Wedding of the Queens and Kings
Part II - Four Paths to Knowledge
Part III - The Golden Scale
Part IV - Etheric River
Part V - Metamorphosis
Coda
Grim Deal.
Grand Magus.
Northern Darkness.
Cosmic Knowledge.
Kult of Kaos will be released on in late 2022. Check the album teaser meanwhile!
Written and performed by Alex Kult (with guests The Alchemist and Darkstar) between November 2021 and February 2022. Mixed and Mastered between March and August 2022.
Credits:
Music and Lyrics by Alex Kult. Additional lyrics on track 1 by guests The Alchemist and Darkstar.
Artwork by Fabio Garigliano.
The band:
Alex Kult: all instruments (performed & programmed), vocals.
Darkstar: vocals.
The Alchemist: vocals.
Production:
Produced and engineered, mixed and mastered at Ramen Fury Studios.
Tracklist:
Grand Magus.
Det Kemiska Bröllopet - Overture.
The single from the upcoming LP was released on September 30 2022.
Listen to it on your preferred platform here!
Credits: same as the LP see below.
The artwork is derived from a print by J. H. Lips (more!)
Lyrics:
1. Grand Magus
As above, so below
Solve, et coagula
Pray before the day
Dance under the moon
Keep your secrets tight from the man who sold the world
Sacred is the mountain
Dreams became nightmares
Persisting illusion of time, (I) know the spell to end th world
The light is up, beyond the gates
The book is red, I made my fate
He is the three times great
Magic is my art
Manipulating symbols in the brightest of the nights
when the stars will guide my mind
Conciousness - shaped and forged
Perception - bent by words
I'm a bard and people fear me more than a magician!
The light is up - beyond the gates
The book is red, I made my fate
He's the three times great
2. Det Kemiska Bröllopet - Overture
(instrumental)
Alex Kul†† performed & programmed instruments, vocals.
Darks†ar: vocals.
The Alchemis†: vocals.
A little bit of history about the project, mainly form my own records:
(I)
It is a foggy sunday afternoon of late October (2021), with some friends. Looking at a bass guitar, from the 90's, still in good shape, owned by the householder. It needs a little maintainance, I can easily do in my homestudio, so I say I would take care of the instrument. In a while some stories related to that bass emerge along with an issue of a swedish newspaper and more stories about the reason that newspaper is now conserved at the house. A photo is taken of myself "reading" (I can not read svenska) the newspaper. One buddy says "It wold be a perfect cover for a black metal album". So be it, I say, and I would have used that bass in the album. May be I will include the picture (I beg your pardon in advance) in the booklet/sleve of the physical copies of the upcoming first LP "Kult of Kaos when I'll come to the physical edition, someday.
(II)
So I waited the right moment to compose something black metal in - unavodably - my way. On November 8, 2021 the snow came, and I sat in my studio in order to came up with a 20'+ suite the same day. After abput seven/eight hours the backbone (basic drums, both rhythm guitars, some synth) was done, structured as an overtoure plus five movements and a coda. In the next weeks I arranged it, adding some harmony/solo sections, more guitars layers here and there. In the beginning it sholud be an instrumental track, but later changed my mind and involved to friends in the vocals sections. So I filled the five movements with lyrics (with revisions by my two guests too) that emerged while I was reading the Rosenkreutz's "Chemichal Wedding". This ended to be the suite "Det Kemiska Brollopet" (track #1 of the LP). At that point I got carried away and in the end I composed other four songs (guess, tracks #2 to #5). Lyrics for these came from several topics as "propaganda", "green-washing", rather than simply fantastic themes based on the onyric HPL worlds.
(III)
Production ran in parallel with another RFS opcoming work (Burnt to the Ground by "Chestnut Revolution", out 2023) - very different stuff and flavour. Once more I understood that tracking (recording the actual instruments acoutic signals) is a way more sensitive stage than mixing or mastering in order to get a reasonable thing, which does not sound just like a demo.
... T.B.C.
