Under A Banner Black As Blood, by Under A Banner Black As Blood

Under A Banner Black As Blood

by Under A Banner Black As Blood

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ClassyMusicSnob I was just expecting a folky ambient album, however this blew me away. it mixed electronic, ambient, folk, a touch of punk, a touch of metal and even a hint of power electronics.

I would describe it as a modern romanticist take on medieval military music with a cyberpunk attitude. its not quite your average neo folk/martial industrial hybrid 4/5 Favorite track: The Fortress of An Ironclad Opressor Has Been Breached.

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1.	Nigh Is The Time Of Sword and Sickle 05:03	buy track
2.	Τhey that Sowed Winds, Shall Now Reap the Storm 07:00	buy track
3.	Forged In The Fire Of Dissent 05:44	buy track
4.	The Fortress of An Ironclad Opressor Has Been Breached 06:38	buy track
5.	You Will Never See The Ninth Again 05:44
6.	Revolution Action 04:52

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Released by True Cult Records

(for digital download, go to truecultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/under-a-banner-black-as-blood)

"Ayloss (Spectral Lore, Mystras, A Compendium of Curiosities) and frequent collaborator Spider of Pnyx introduce a new entity called Under A Banner Black As Blood by blending their styles, based on grand orchestral samples and lo-fi analogue synths and real percussion respectively, in a militant symphony of peasant sieges upon noble strongholds and forgotten skirmishes, as an allegory to modern struggles people face nowadays. Equal parts ambient darkness and medieval aggression, there is a wide breadth of influences that merge into the resulting sound, starting from a foundation of dark dungeon synth and militant ambient to branch out even to 70's electro-ambient or kraut. Under A Banner Black As Blood aim to show that the escapism inherent in such genres can be subverted to serve a purpose".

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released July 23, 2021

Orchestral Samples and Digital Synths: Ayloss
Analogue Synths and Live Percussion: Spider Of Pnyx
Guest Keyboards by Ξόρκι on track 2 and 4
Track 6 Originally By ATR

Mixed and Mastered by Ayloss at the Stellar Auditorium
Cover and Layout by The True Cult

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Spectral Lore Αθήνα, Greece

This page hosts most of the music I've released through Spectral Lore and other projects. Atmospheric black metal, ambient, dungeon synth and more. I'm antifascist so NSBM fans stay away.

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