Name: Spiritus Sylvestris
Brand: Iskandr

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Catalogue number

EISEN224LP

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Black

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Format detail

180 gram

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-01-05

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4260393746169

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Black LP

EISEN224DIGICD

2023-12-08

4260393746152

Artist

Iskandr

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

Eisenwald

Eisenwald is a German record company that specializes in © & ℗, marketing, distribution, licensing, and other music-related services. As the *Eisenwald Tonschmiede* label, they have established themselves as a prominent player in the music industry.

With a focus on supporting talented artists and performers, Eisenwald provides a platform for musicians to showcase their unique sounds and creative visions. Their dedication to quality and authenticity has earned them a reputation as an authoritative force within the industry.

Through their extensive network of partners and resources, Eisenwald ensures that their artists receive maximum exposure and reach their target audience effectively. Whether it's through physical releases or digital platforms, they strive to connect fans with exceptional music from both established acts and emerging talents.

"The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear" -Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks. Iskandr's latest offering "Spiritus Sylvestris" appears to be a radical statement in both content and form Signifying a departure from the black metal roots of the project, the psychedelic folk doom of the new album builds upon the directions of where both "Vergezicht" and "Glas" were already moving towards. "Spiritus Sylvestris" is cinematic in scope: majestic and threatening in its aura of sublime grandeur. The Latin title translates to "spirit of the wild" and also refers to the early modern alchemical name for carbon dioxide -when the spirit of the wilderness is released into the ether through the burning of wood and charcoal. The songs tell impressionistic stories of natural elements personified; when powerful spirits that linger in the earth are stirred, those elemental forces will be forced to haunt our world. In an era of irreversible damage to our planet and anthropogenic climate change, Iskandr aims to offer funeral dirges for the world that we have already lost. "Spiritus Sylvestris" embraces a limitless approach to translate this vision into musical form. Employing musical elements from a broad array of genres; easily moving between the martial stomp of early Laibach and the ethereal melodics of Dead Can Dance. Recorded and mixed by the legendary Pieter Kloos (The Devil's Blood, Motorpsycho) at The Void Studio in Eindhoven, the new Iskandr record has broadened the scope and sound of the project beyond any confines, resulting in the most open soundscapes from Iskandrto date. The heavy baritone guitar riffs that form the backbone of the record provide a pitch-black canvas in which huge percussive rhythms and psychedelic layers of Hammond organ, Mellotron as well as subtle acoustics move in and out of focus. If this world is at an end it deserves a requiem for that what is lost.

Spiritus Sylvestris

Music GB

Discover Spiritus Sylvestris by Iskandr. A radical departure from black metal roots, this album offers psychedelic folk doom. Label: Eisenwald.