![]() The whole album is fantastic, but certainly, as a HUGE Bal Sagoth fan, songs where that direct influence is a little heaver stand out for me. Replete with oodles of over the top Lord Byron styled deep narrative vocals (and wordy song titles), the material, like Gloryhammer, is conceptual, but rather than zombie unicorns invading the land of Fife, this is based on hyperspacial realities, Epithemean celestial wizardry, multiverse black holes, tesseractual gateways, as only Chris Bowes can deliver. ![]() It’s a bit more modern, shreddy/techy black/death, maybe like many The Artisan Era bands, but has a heavy dose of super epic power metal guitars and keyboards (where the largest component of Bal Sagoth Worship resides) and cosmic cheese. Naturally, such a gathering injects an array of influences to the mix, so what you end up with is a celestial, multiversal vortex, mixing Bal Sagoth‘s The Power Cosmic (in particular you can hear “The Voyagers Beneath the Mare Imbrium” and “The Scourge of the Fourth Celestial Host” here) and a little of all the other band members other projects. Joined by fellow wizards from Aether Realm (vocalist/bassist Vincent Jones), Gloryhammer (Guitarist Micheal Barber), Forlorn Citadel (guitarist Matthew Bell) and Vale of Pnath/Nekrogoblikon (drummer Eric Brown), all with appropriately wizardly alias’s like ‘Keeper of the 17th Enochian Gate’ and’ Disciple of the 2-Planar Homerian Adjunct”. Now, he developed that influence a little bit in his power metal outfit Gloryhammer, but I’ve been waiting for him to truly flesh out his love for Bal Sagoth, and apparently, he has finally fulfilled his dream, with ‘extreme wizard metal’ supergroup Wizardthrone. And in both interviews, legendary Brit fantasy metal act Bal-Sagoth comes up as a huge influence on Alestorm’s Chris Bowes. I’ve interviewed Alestorm twice over the years, both at this very site.
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