Fossil Gardens

by Hail Spirit Noir

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porcelainheart- I've known about this group for many years, and I recently spent 10 days in the city where they're from. Would have loved to see them live to perform this! And I couldn't miss getting this on sale either. East of the Wall goes black metal. Favorite track: The Blue Dot.
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bmurator Greek Progressive / Psychedelic Rock / Black Metal. This is nothing short of stunning! These guys really do encompass all the styles listed & more. There are so very many influences too, all the way from Rush to Opeth via Thy Catafalque & back again with quite a bit of elelctronica thrown in for good measure! It all makes for an incredibly exciting album & one that I simply cannot recommend highly enough! Near pure perfection & done with humour & on my AOTY list for sure! Highly recommended!!! Favorite track: The Road to Awe.
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Saffron Robe Hail Spirit Noir! A very adventurous band who are not afraid to take risks, and the results are seldom less than spectacular.
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Wez Barber A real grower (ala Black Medium Current). Not what I was expecting, but I love it. Favorite track: The Road to Awe.
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Waking up once again in a circle with no end What great time to be alive! Patterns break and worlds emerge in the twinkling of an eye Creatures you could never dream of Colours surface from the dark... It's Springtime... From the void silhouettes Spread across the cosmic edge On This starfront promenade The universe reveals Its hand "What A Time to Be Alive"! Clusters of these galaxies hum to me their parallel memories Orbiting the Nebulae, They will only bloom the once Sea shells to sound the Spring of Life Their random spirals glide us to quasars of the Void
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There’s a dent in the dimension of time that grows deeper and more undefined Like the wishes of man in his prime Vast Scope on each side Blind Curves for this temple of mine The Temple of the Curved Space A Gospel of the formulas A Garden In A Curved Space Expanding In Arrogance There’s a breach in the Spatial Design where gravity no longer applies Like the Wishes of man on repose more dimensions arose and raised my garden to higher plateaus A monolith of strange clay times bends another way Aspirations in a raw state Transcendence! The garden’s roots will burrow deep Merging theories with alchemy Feeding the womb of the worm The wonders of the Curved Space Change is a violent praise Eleven Strings, one for every wish 26, the sowing seeds will built makeshift reality In the soils of the this space I am the king and I will strum the Strings
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There’s a girl with ladders for eyes To constellations where time goes to hide Each one will blossom in unnameable hues Elegance only entropy could ever Reduce Curse you, Entropia! Unaware, we speak your word Curse you, Entropia! Even Gods cavet your throne There’s a boy with the Arts in his smile Words paint the sounds to his blazing mind He sculpts his name on each and one sun As the moons tear the Seas till entropy is done In this Vineyard of ideas, they unearthed the good years Sampling their nektars, Gods danced with their own fears Waltzing through the Universe till Milky Way goes stale Cursed be entropy, you will always get your Day!
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The Blue Dot 05:42
As i walk towards the timeless gardens All flesh dissolves in the stars Every cell Breathes life to my offspring New stars sparkle in the dark Ιn the tiny, trivial and massless blue dot, You’ll cross infinity What is torment at birth, a wonder later A glimpse of blissfulness to come The blue dot, the pale blue dot From a stain in space, the endless spring I see this spot Like a wandering eye it is swallowing mine So profound, so absurd That all that is living all that is not should be contained in this tiny blue dot So profound So absurd In the grooves of the Fossils is where it all mends! The Fossil gardens offer no trees Only dots of dead everythings...
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Here is him standing upon the brink Of every Sunrise, in Every World And he has built a bridge between The Ether and these machines, These Imitation Men Here is him wondering walking the shores Is the physical all that we’ve got? Maybe one touch, a violent shove Can Pave the way, the way To Awe? The moments of their infancy were cold, uncaring energy And they’d speak, his heart would freeze Did Circuits surge in conscious dream? In Conscious Dream The Infinite Is maybe held within Noxious dreams They Intertwine Reality is really Far Behind ...And he has built a bridge between The Ether and these machines, machines of wonders... Waves of static and broken bones They conjured their abstract thought Neck-deep In philosophy, enthalpy Wrought-iron hearts to imitate To the point where they create and then they wake And they took him by the hand Sprinkled all his gifts with sand For the tide to wash away, for all his wisdom he can’t stay In a moment’s lapse of piety He touched real Divinity It left a foul taste Maybe one touch from death, a violent shove Can Pave the way, the Way To Awe? Here Is The Road The Road To Awe To Make Us Perfect, Render Us Whole To Harness Life Attain Control Let The Divine Reveal Their Flaw
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If i told you I could take you to a higher place Would you come with me ? Would you depart this world for a journey towards spacelessness? Our bodies shall melt shall unite with the universe and embark for the lands of eternity where no time exists and oblivion is bliss... ...Here they stand, the fossil gardens... ...Here they stand, alive and dead all at once... but we believe we'll float forever!!

about

"Fossil Gardens" is an intense and soul-elevating experience; a musical journey to the unmistakable world of HAIL SPIRIT NOIR, and its most extreme effort to date. The band's signature sound, defined by otherworldly melodies, vintage synths and compositional experimentation, is once again present, yet shifting towards black metal instrumentation and chaotic soundscapes, reaching next-level psychedelia.

Long time partner Dimitris Douvras (Rotting Christ, Nightstalker) and Magnus Lindberg, member of Cult of Luna and world renowned mastering engineer, handled the production duties, crafting a warm and solid sound that perfectly reverberates the band's abstract vision. The visual side of the album was portrayed by George Baramatis (cover artwork) and Dimitris Katsenos (additional art and layout).

Taking up where "Eden in Reverse" left off, the album, thematically, focuses on the philosophical and scientific struggle to unravel the secrets of the universe and reach new states of consciousness that defy the limits of space and time.

Haris (synths) had this to say about "Fossil Gardens": "This time we went more extreme than ever before, we used lots of blasts, screams and minimal black metal textures. Even so, I believe this is a positive album, since it revolves around the charm of our cosmos and the transcendence of space and time. Having this on mind, we went for a solid yet abstract sound production, meaning that we wanted the listener to perceive the music as a whole, not as the sum of individual parts and instruments. Some may find it different than our previous album, but if you watch closely, you’ll notice the extreme similarities."

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released June 28, 2024

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