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Selling second hand CD, DVD and vinyl - Extreme Metal and Dark music
new and unplayed but missed shrinkwrap
Hard-cover mediabook with extensive booklet
Pioneering French dark atmospheric music since 1996, Dark Sanctuary is back with their eighth album, Cernunnos, the first in fourteen years. Following the EP Iterum released in 2022, it marks the group's return to the front of the stage.
Cernunnos is an ancient Gaulish god who embodied the biological cycle of nature, simultaneously reflecting life and death, germination and decay, like the deer, the animal that represents him, who loses its antlers in winter to recover them in spring. This title perfectly symbolizes the history of Dark Sanctuary after these years of artistic break and this rebirth.
Composed during the year 2022, the 11 songs of this album make it one of the most varied that Dark Sanctuary have made so far, oscillating between what has characterized the band for two decades and new musical horizons. Both dark and emotional, Cernunnos is a new milestone in the history of the group.
Mixed and mastered by Øystein G. Brun at Crosound Studio in Bergen
Cover Artwork by Valnoir/Metastazis
Rare, swiss weird project - avantgarde thrash
Disc: VG (quite a few scratches but plays perfectly)
Inlays: NM
Armando Curcio Editore Newstands edition! Rare italian 1992
Media Condition: Mint
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint
Stjärnfält is a musical project led by M. Originally from Australia, at some point the mysterious multi-instrumentalist relocated to Sweden, where he still lives to this day.
Lapporten is the project sophomore album and follows two years after the debut Ascension. These four, atmospheric, trancey tracks are a detail of M.'s travels through northern Sweden, and attempt to capture it's contradicting nature of isolation and expanse; bleakness and beauty.
Let Stjärnfält guide you up the “Kebnekaise”, Sweden’s highest mountain, wander with him through the green area of “Bruksleden” and behold the magnificent “Polarsken” and Séracs. Lapporten itself stands for “The Lapponian Gate”, a u-shaped valley located in Lapland.
Merging dreamy, hypnotic atmospheric metal with icy electronic trance soundscapes, M. describes Stjärnfält's music as "melancholic optimism".
Rage ornamented by an apocalypse. Wrapped in death forever...
We rest our memories under the white face of fortresses, a perfect synchrony and growing in the distant forests of poison.
A disintegrated black silhouette is swallowed and in turn prolonged in time.
We are like dwindling souls in the chalice of the world, bathing in the mist and blood of our desires, our innocence, and the unconditional beating of our hearts. We are like the disturbing night far from the mundane coincidences with mysterious eyes.
Thus, "Vestiges Engraved in Frozen Mysticism" is the fifth album or "rotten sphere" that this bloody legion emanates from the mystical Valdivian landscape, with an enriching and powerful story behind this necro/masterful work, characterized by its own sound that perfectly adheres to the classic roots of the 90s. Paying a solemn tribute to the spirit of Kaldrad in one of his musical pieces, the mirrors of the past and paganism embodied in the compositional auræs.
