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Blackrune
Dead Temples
Catalog Numbers: FH-040 / FH:VI-017
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Genre: Dark Shoegaze / Mystical Post-Rock
Type: LP
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info | Spotify
pressing information
Digital: Worldwide
Cassette Tape: Furhoof: Sixth Man
1st Press (2016): 100
– ”Stygian Waters” x 50
– ”Moon Powder” x 50
”Stygian Waters” solid dark-blue cassette or “Moon Powder” solid silver cassette with white ink A-side imprint, full-color 5-Panel J-Card (two-sided) on matte paper, in a black-back plastic Norelco case. Hand-stamped and hand-numbered.
Tracklisting
1. A Scientific Enquiry Into the Psychological Benefits of Magical Thinking – 07:27
2. Pillars (In the Vignette of the Judgment Scene) – 05:39
3. Scarabs Wear Their Names – 05:36
4. A Hymn to Virgil (I) – 06:12
5. Laocoön – 04:45
6. The Spiral Stairs – 03:50
7. Priestess of Lore (Interlude) – 02:18
8. A Hymn to the Cumaean Sibyl (II) – 02:42
9. Creation Myth of a Goddess of Storms – 08:30
Total Run Time: 46:59
Side Split: A 1-4, B 5-9
Credits
All songs written by Blackrune, 2014-2015.
Produced by Blackrune with Peter Mavrogeorgis.
Engineered and Recorded by Peter Mavrogeorgis at Dollhouse, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
Cover Artwork: Danielle Sperandeo.
Design & Layout: Ryan McCardle.
Release Biography
‘Dead Temples’ is a musical-literary fantasy-odyssey in nine parts, drawing inspiration from mythology, occult history, film, and literature on a journey to explore the fringes of post-rock, psychedelia, and the esoteric soundtrack as a standalone experience. Weaving together themes and images from sources like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Roman pagan lore, Dante's Inferno, and 'The Outer Limits,' 'Dead Temples' hopes to inspire a transportive experience in the fantasy world that exists between everyday experiences. April 29th 2016 saw the release of Blackrune's sophomore full-length ‘Dead Temples’ digitally worldwide and on limited edition cassette via Furious Hooves.
Unfortunately, 2016 brought the departure of many Savannah artists and Blackrune was not immune. McCullough & Goerner eventually both found themselves in Chicago, IL, while Goggans was playing in various bands in Athens, GA area. McCullough releases solo music as Temazcal and Goerner has been honing in on a number of things under the umbrealla of Waxing Crescent Media.
Press & Accolades
“Like an immense, gauzy beast rising slowly from a dark ocean, Blackrune will pursue and envelope you, and swallow you, and pass you on to a strange and multi-hued chemical world where nothing is as it seems.”
– Connect Savannah, interview with PM Goerner about the formation of Blackrune.
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