TENEBRIS
Kochanowski

Jewelcase CD with 12-page booklet.  

Brand new studio album from one of Poland's most original and long-running metal bands - Tenebris. Formed in Łódź, Poland in 1991, they began as a death metal act before incorporating progressive and even jazz influences into their sound, being extremely hard to categorize as under just one metal genre.

The album title references the iconic Polish XVI century poet, visioner and magician, Jan Kochanowski. His works are shown here as  a deliberate labyrinth based on Pythagorean numerology, which in turn was derived from Hermes Trismegistus. This new perspective transformed Kochanowski from a simple, pastoral poet into a practitioner of what might be called magical arts. The idea of Kochanowski as a prophet figure, transcending even Mickiewicz, became central to the album's unapologetic title.