Standard Edition LP on Black vinyl. Limited print of 200 copies Comes in 3mm sleeve and printed inner sleeve, matte lamination. 7 Tracks. Running Time 49:36 France’s enigmatic Grande Loge present their fist full length offering. Established in 2017 as a ritualised acoustic entity from Black Metal horde Malepeste and Tower of Silence to forge a crafty melange of aerial ambient, martial folk and transcendental chants using ethnic and traditional instruments, violin, buzuki, nafar, shaman drums and tambora.
“Mantras” is a suite of pagan prayers, a spiritual call to initiate an ecstatic inner voyage. Chants are composed of originals mantras, phonemes put together for their aesthetic and sonic value, a vocalised form of Chaos Magick. The track “Mithra Invictus” is a french translation of a prayer to the solar god Mithra while “Hekaten” is an prayer to the goddess Hecate in ancient greek.
Released Mid December 2020 by Cyclic Law.
Track Listing:
01. Epopteia
02. Mithra Invictus
03. Hekaten
04. Avekko
05. Aecroto
06. Tenya Pon
07. Hierophantes
English