Throughout this process, we strove to improve on every aspect of Hoth, and the results are apparent in the quality of both composition and production: we acquired new software, new instruments, and learned new techniques. We worked together as one mind, reworking songs and rearranging compositions until we reached this perfection. We wanted every piece of the album to match our vision of vile sorcery so powerful and terrifying it could reshape the cosmos. Weaker parts of the album were left on the cutting room floor when newer, better ideas surfaced in our minds. The experience itself brings its own meaning to each listener.Īstral Necromancy is the product of three intense years of writing and composition between 20.
We hesitate to be any more specific than that because the meaning of the album is best expressed through listening to it. The eleven tracks on the album explore themes ranging from corruption of the self to what lies at the end of all time from journeys through frostbitten wastelands to the acquisition of forbidden knowledge, and more. It is a concept album in the sense that there is a common thread through each of the songs that bind them together as each individually explores an aspect of this darkness. There is no light and no hope - just an exploration of cosmic mysteries and black magic – a journey in infinite directions. On the other hand, Astral Necromancy already exists in the crushing, unforgiving darkness. Oathbreaker was a concept album that lead the listener down a darker and darker path it was a linear journey. This is a concept album – but one of a somewhat different sort. Even should sun melt the ice on this groundĪstral Necromancy is a collection of black magic rituals and unholy spells that weave a tale of forbidden knowledge and spiritual transcendence.
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