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Only streaming via Bandcamp & Youtube
Release: 29.05.26 (29th May)
Merch: CD (show more…)
Pro CDR in highquality 4-Panel DigiPak w. 16-page booklet, sealed
Cassette, purple marble & red marble, with on tape print, 6-panel j-card, sealed, lim. to 25 each
1. Etruscan Blossom Sanctuary
2. Thermae I: Azure Mosaics and Pools of Convalescence
3. Pyrocumulus Pharynx
4. Acre of Fired Earth (Cauterizing Tellurian Wounds)
5. Thermae II: Waters of Veii
6. Stellarium in the Court of Cassiopeia (Sundials, Spheres and Celestial Knives)
7. A Dismounted Nightmare in Boundless Rove
8. Thermae III: Springs of Torrential Rejuvenation
9. Antechamber to Eventide (Circumambulating the Sunwell)
10. Deluge at Sunset Dawn
11. Thermae IV: Flooded Moonstone Pavilion
The second Verzauber album, “Dire Garden of the Ages” reprises the marriage of mythological Black Metal and ambient works established with the project’s debut, albeit now permeated with a distinct electronica presence.
Delving once more into lucid themes of life, death, and the divine, “Dire Garden of the Ages” hearkens back to the golden age of the nascent Mediterranean, captured through the lens of romanticism, and further manifested through the evocative artwork of Mitchell Nolte.
An exaltation of the jewel in the crown of Gaia, the fertile cradle of Western civilization, its blossom and its fruits, its fires and its waters, and the visceral, tellurian essence that binds us to it. Drink from the amphora of perseverance…
Credits:
Everything – P.Cover art – Mitchell Nolte
