Deluxe BOX with 4 individual digipak-CDs inside – Limited Edition of 300 copies!
After "The Acqualuce Years" collector edition of Burning Gates and The Elysium Facade "Trichotomy" Box, Swiss Dark Nights presents another remastered box, exploring the history of one of the most fundamental Italian Gothic rock acts – later re-named into THE SPIRITUAL BAT, but remaining band-members.
The 4CD Collector Box includes remastered versions of early band releases, deleted for ages: "Spiritual Bats" vinyl EP, a unreleased tape of band rehearsal, "Confession", a complete remixed and remastered version of "Sacrament" EP and the album "Through the Shadows". A journey across 4 different CDS, spanning from 1993 to 2008, featuring four different line-ups. There is a chronological order, except for the bonus tracks on CD1. When you listen to those tracks, you will be flash-forwarding in time (from 1993 to 1998). These bonus songs are actually from the 1996 “Confession” album, but recorded by the “Sacrament” line-up during a rehearsal at Ultrasound studios in 1998, before a one-off US show, at Alchemy Mondays, CB’s Gallery, on August 3rd 1998. The band and label included these tracks on CD1 with the vinyl ep, because… there was room! And because the make-do sound quality of the cassette-tape, is somewhat more compatible with that of the debut vinyl, than it is with the later, professionally recorded releases!
We are told this is a true collectors’ item, reserved for those who can appreciate the music beyond the hiss!
Released Mid January 2023 by Swiss Dark Nights.
Tracks Listing;
Tracks CD1 “Spiritual Bats Vinyl EP’ (1993):
01. My Sister Dead
02. Vampires Not Dead
03. Funeral Cries
Bonus-Tracks [Rehearsal USA 1998]:
04. Confession
05. My Sister Dead
06. Live and Die
07. Romantic Decadence
08. Tormented Body
09. Vampires Not Dead
10. Crucifixion
Remastered by Marco Milanesio, now being released in digital form for the first time.
CD2 “Confessions” (1996):
01. Confession
02. My Sister Dead
03. Tormented Body
04. Vampires not Dead
05. Crucifixion
06. Funeral Cries
07. Shadows
08. Live and die
09. Romantic Decadence
Remastered by Marco Milanesio (originally recorded and mixed by Claudio Mura, at Pan Pot Studio, Rome)
CD3 “Sacrament” (1998):
01. Sacrament
02. Reflections of You
03. Lost Souls
04. Ritual
05. Dazzling Lights
Remastered and re-mixed by Valerio Rivieccio (originally on Ampex reel, recorded and mixed by Claudio Mura, at Pan Pot Studio, Rome. Transferred from analog to digital by Forward St.)
CD4 “Through the Shadows” (2008):
01. Through the Shadows
02. Wandering on Cobble Hills
03. Silver Lakes
04. Prague
05. Wish Power
06. Watz
07. Twins
08. In the Golden Cage
09. Newdance
10. Trance
11. Primordial Call
12. Sogno Tribale
Remastered by Marco Milanesio. Marking the change from the plural to the singular name, this album was originally conceived and recorded by The Spiritual Bat in their home studio as an instrumental album with programmed drums, but later vocals and acoustic drums were recorded and mixed by Claudio Mura, in a garage in Serrone.
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