BAL-SAGOTH Remasters Due In November
October 12, 2011, 13 years ago
Metal Mind Productions has announced the exclusive re-release of three albums by the British band BAL-SAGOTH: The Power Cosmic, Atlantis Ascendant and The Chthonic Chronicles. The albums will be available in a new digipak edition each limited to 2000 copies including expanded lyric booklets. The release date is set for November, 14th in Europe and January, 10th 2011 in USA (via MVD). Details can be found below:
The Power Cosmic - Bal-Sagoth’s fourth full length album from 1999. Focusing on an intergalactic tale of war, cosmic empires, and celestial gods, the album pushed the band to new heights both artistically, and in popularity.
Tracklist:
'The Awakening of the Stars'
'The Voyagers Beneath the Mare Imbrium'
'The Empyreal Lexicon'
'Of Carnage and a Gathering of the Wolves'
'Callisto Rising'
'The Scourage of the Fourth Celestial Host'
'Behold, the Armies of War Descend Screaming From the Heavens!'
'The Thirteen Cryptical Prophecies of Mu'
Atlantis Ascendant - Bal-Sagoth’s fifth full length album from 2001. The album's primary story and lyrical concept centers around the exploits of a fictional nineteenth century British archaeologist and adventurer named Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, who has dedicated his life to the field of antediluvian anthropology and to seeking out evidence as to the true nature of mankind's origin. As with many protagonists in the Lovecraftian fashion, his investigations lead to madness and death.
Tracklist:
'The Epsilon Exordium'
'Atlantis Ascendant'
'Draconis Albionensis'
'Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers'
'The Ghosts of Angkor Wat'
'The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire: Part III'
'The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur'
'In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica'
'The Chronicle of Shadows'
'Six Keys to the Onyx Pyramid'
The Chthonic Chronicles - Bal-Sagoth’s sixth album. Although vocalist/lyricist Byron Roberts most often refers to The Chthonic Chronicles as "the end of the Hexalogy", this could also refer to the end of this particular set of stories. Bal-Sagoth's now-established tradition of lyrics revolving around antediluvian settings such as Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu is once again present, and song titles such as 'Shackled To The Trilithon Of Kutulu' indicate that the heavy H. P. Lovecraft inspiration, that set a tone of cosmic horror to the lyrical aspects of their previous albums, is present too.
Tracklist:
'The Sixth Adulation of His Chthonic Majesty'
'Invocations Beyond the Outer - World Night'
'Six Score and Ten Oblations to a Malefic Avatar'
'The Obsidian Crown Unbound'
'The Fallen Kingdoms of the Abyssal Plain'
'Shackled to the Trilithon of Kutulu'
'The Hammer of the Emperor'
'Unfettering the Hoary Sentinels of Karnak'
'To Storm the Cyclopean Gates of Byzantium'
'Arcana Antediluvia'
'Beneath the Crimson Vaults of Cydonia'
'Return to Hatheg-Kla'