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The Old Ones : The Raven
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Abyssal Music
Genre: Metal/Punk: Heavy Metal
Release Date: 2004
The Raven Record Label: 9 Productions
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
The Old Ones 4:46 $0.99
Nameless City 4:12 $0.99
Funeral Song 4:38 $0.99
To Pan 4:19 $0.99
Alone 4:21 $0.99
Eulalie 4:57 $0.99
The Raven 5:13 $0.99
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Album Notes

"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons.
The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath
in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraver, but who bath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again."

H.P.Lovecraft "The Dunwich Horror"

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REVIEWS

Fangtastic
author: D.
Brilliant! Can't wait to hear more!
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Perfectly gothic!
author: Abigail Baker
Air is hard to breath, something far wraps around us while dreamy nymphs and satyrs singing in strange languages dissolve all temporal barriers... consider this album as one of the most exciting production of the year. You can feel something sinister in the Black Pharaoh´s voices: angels, demons and witches. It's something ancestral, stinging, sad, oneiric... in one word perfectly gothic!
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City of the Pillars
author: Larry Neal
The members of The Old Ones seem to come directly from the City of the Pillars. Their music lives from the spirit of these former times. Their release it's so full of beautiful songs in a traditional manner, performed in an individual style. Besides the excellent musical compositions the forceful voice of Black Pharaoh makes this release so special.
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H.P. Lovecraft
author: Charles Dexter Ward
I think that there isn't any other band in the world able to make me close to the myths of H.P. Lovecraft like The Old Ones do. Each single element makes them a band suspended in time and this condition seems to be reflected on the listeners who are defenceless in front this wonderful artistical expression. Seven beautiful songs are here to celebrate a theatrical and arcane ritual and everything has the colours of perfection. Black Pharaoh and his band are, as they admit, mediums of time and history, a sort of ministrels who lead you in ancient and magic world thanks to their histories made of mistery and beauty. This album is just another step of their wonderful pilgrimage through the centuries and just another masterpiece of a band who doesn't play simple music but differently from the mass, succeeds to enchant you transforming beauty in music.
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