Published: January 1, 1970
AUREOLE drop the sinister final single 'Beware that which Inhabits the Belltower' that is taken from the US ambient black metal project's forthcoming third album "Alunarian Bellmaster" and is scheduled for release on February 9, 2024.
AUREOLE talk about this installment of the album's conceptual story: "The chapter 'Beware that which Inhabits the Belltower' leads towards the incomprehensible power and immortality of the true face of Alunar's cosmic heart and bell!", mastermind Markov Soroka narrates. "An aeon of stored trauma, a beater rings out loudly as it crushes that which tries to conquer it. This track addresses the midpoint of the 'Alunarian Bellmaster' album's saga, where the invading astral forces, like all others, find that even with Alunar's castle walls bare and structure coming apart, the bell will always remain immortal... or will it?"
The particularly sinister and insidious musical and lyrical universe that Markov "M.S." Soroka is continuously creating with his various projects AUREOLE and TCHORNOBOG as well as ETERNIUM, KRUKH, and DROWN is enriched by a new chapter:
The third AUREOLE full-length "Alunarian Bellmaster" differs stylistically from its direct predecessor "Aurora Borealis" (2016) in atmosphere and feeling. The album returns to the spirit of the 2014 debut "Alunar" albeit as a more advanced version with the added experience regarding production techniques and conceptual writing that Soroka has acquired over the years.
Armed with a vicious sound, the album's lyrical theme is echoed in the sound of 30 bells sampled by Markov and incorporated on "Alunarian Bellmaster". The story told on this album is part of the same grimdark fantasy and science fiction based cosmos that AUREOLE and TCHORNOBOG share. In the words of its creator, the chapter "Alunarian Bellmaster" reveals the following insight:
"When solar flares strike the Belltower at the right moment, inhabitants of Citadel Alunar can manifest a projected self. Their creation uses the brick and iron of the Citadel as a base. These beings embody the desires of previous occupiers of Alunar and the bell becomes their life source. The Alunarian Bellmaster's Ghost is one such self. An obsessed craft worker, the ghost is directly linked as one of the builders or maintainers of the Citadel in the long-ago times. The obsessive ringing and resonance of perfection for creating a second Alunar summoned the attention of some in its local-galactic. A never-ending empire of consumption, worshiping a never-ending god. This contact of the Deathless Interlopers led to the ultimate sacrifice of the Bellmaster, one which finally relocates the citadel belltower into a new form, far away from the relentless invaders."
The cryptic mystery revealed in AUREOLE demands to worship the Alunarian Belltower in the infinity of cosmos. "Alunarian Bellmaster" is the most definitive Aureole release yet!
Release date: February 9, 2024
Label: Lupus Lounge
Style: Ambient Black Metal
Line-up
Markov Soroka – all instruments, composition
Guest musician
Eugnosis – synths on 'Warpstorm'
Recording & production by Markov Soroka at Travelling Homestudio
Mastering by Eugene Nesci at Eugnosis Studios
Artwork by Markov Soroka
Layout by Lukasz Jaszak
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