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People of the Black Circle

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SANDRA.N.696 People Of The Black Circle skill fully and successfully mix styles on their debut. Heaviness, melody and psychedelic keyboard mats combine with themes from the world of HP Lovecraft. The resulting mix gives hope for more material and deserves an 8/10
Higly recommended for all those who worship or love the darkness. Favorite track: The Ghoul and the Seraph (Ghoul's Song II).
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paliojen_black Just outstanding. Terrific lyrics and enough atmosphere to allow for a perfect pace. The overall mood is pretty dark, but powerful and beautiful as well. Edit: This dudes one of the best vocalists I've heard in a long time. Brilliant! Favorite track: Cimmeria.
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Doom King Random track select first listen. It was immense. a very quick NYP no brainer based on that Iommic track

Looking forward to the rest right now

🤘🤘 Favorite track: Ghosts in Agartha.
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One with his fervor shall inform The world, and one with all his sorrow One sees a glad, unsetting morrow, One hears the whisper of the worm. Hermes unknown, whose hand assists My toil, and fills my dreams with fear, Through thee I am the mournful peer Of Midas, first of alchemists. Fine gold to iron corruptible I turn, and paradise to hell; In winding-sheets of cloud and levin A dear cadaver I descry; And build upon the shores of heaven Towering proud sarcophagi
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Cimmeria 06:25
The dark woods, masking slopes of sombre hills; The grey clouds' leaden everlasting arch; The dusky streams that flowed without a sound, And the lone winds that whispered down the passes. It was a gloomy land that seemed to hold All winds and clouds and dreams that shun the sun, With bare boughs rattling in the lonesome winds, And the dark woodlands brooding over all, Not even lightened by the rare dim sun Which made squat shadows out of men; they called it Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. It was so long ago and far away I have forgotten the very name men called me. The axe and flint-tipped spear are like a dream, And hunts and wars are like shadows. Only the stillness of that sombre land; The clouds that piled forever on the hills, Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. Oh, soul of mine, born out of shadowed hills, To clouds and winds and ghosts that shun the sun, How many deaths shall serve to break at last This heritage which wraps me in the grey Apparel of ghosts? Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
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O condor, keep thy mountain-ways Above the long Andean lands; Gier-eagle, guard the eastern sands Where the Forsaken camel strays: Beetle and worm and I will ward The Iardered graves of lout and lord. Oh, warm and bright the blood that Iies Upon the wounded lion's trail ! Hyena, laugh, and jackal, wail, And ring him round, who turns and dies ! Beetle and worm and I will ward The lardered graves of lout and lord. Arms of a wanton girl are good, Or hands of harp-player and knight: Breasts of the nun be sweet and white, Sweet is the festive friar's blood. Beetle and worm and I will ward The lardered graves of lout and lord.
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Nyarlathotep 07:15
At last from inner Egypt came The strange dark One to whom the fellahs bowed; Silent and lean and cryptically proud, And wrapped in fabrics red as sunset flame. Throngs pressed around, frantic for his commands, But leaving, could not tell what they had heard; While through the nations spread the awestruck word That wild beasts followed him and licked his hands. At sea a noxious birth began; Forgotten lands with weedy spires of gold; The ground was cleft, and mad auroras rolled Down on the quaking citadels of man. Then, crushing what he chanced to mould in play, The idiot Chaos blew Earth's dust away.
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They look up, with their pale and sunken faces, And their look is dread to see, Few paces have they taken, yet are weary Their grave-rest is far to seek Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, As if Fate in each were stark Children's souls, which God is calling sunward, Spin on blindly in the dark. And well may the children weep before you They are weary ere they run They have never seen the sunshine, nor the glory Which is brighter than the sun They know the grief of man, without its wisdom They sink in the despair, without its calm Are slaves, without liberty, in Christdom, Are martyrs, by the pang without the palm, Are worn, as if with age, yet unretrievingly No dear remembrance keep Are orphans of the earthly love and heavenly Let them weep! Let them weep!

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This is the debut album of PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE. What started as an experiment born out of love for horror and fantasy fiction, gradually took a life of its own, evolving to something both soothing and eerie, traumatic and redemptive. It is with great pride and sinister pleasure that we beckon you to join us in the Black Circle.

"The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man".

William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

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released March 7, 2022

All music composed and performed by
PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE

Recorded, mixed and mastered in Pandorum Studios, Athens Gr
Feb 2021- Jan 2022

Cover design by Stella Sapiente Collective

Special Thanks to: Villy, Dimmy & Geo Belo, Gus Michael, Commissioner of Salvation, Nyx Mod, Alexandr, Kai, Silver, Geo, Derek & Pinhead, Ike, Ange, Chris Babalis jr & Acid Mammoth, Sven, Austin, Sabine, Fred & Sandy, Joe, Thierry, Lasse, J Morris, Bill City & BUS TUS

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People of the Black Circle Athens, Greece

People of the Black Circle was founded in the first months of 2021 in Athens, Greece. Their music aspires to combine the heaviness of Doom guitar sound with melodic vocal lines, while at the same time incorporating an eerie Horror Synth atmosphere.

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