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The USA-based ambient black metal project Aureole has announced its third album, Alunarian Bellmaster, due on 9 February 2024. The project has also unleashed the first track, "Alunarian Ghosts Of Bellmaster", which awaits you in the player below.
Aureole comments cryptically: "The first and massively over-arching chapter of Alunarian Bellmaster depicts and expresses the revival of Bellmaster and its ghosts, to rebuild and resonate bells to cosmos untold", mastermind Markov Soroka narrates. "Many of the motifs throughout the album are established here and continue the bellmarch chant of the Alunarian Bellmaster. Over 20 individual bells are being played on this song that I have collected over the years."
The particularly sinister and insidious musical and lyrical universe that Markov "M.S." Soroka is continuously creating with his various projects Aureole, Tchornobog, Eternium, Krukh, and Drown, is enriched by a new chapter: The third Aureole album, 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 album, 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 into 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 the cosmos. Alunarian Bellmaster is the most definitive Aureole release yet! Link
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