Temple of Khronos

by Spire

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Christopher Reality-bending? More like reality- extinguishing, this is a masterpiece and by far one of the most intriguing and original releases I've heard this year... or ever. I honestly believe no other album can compare to Spires' Temple of Khronos... Seriously. Highly recommended! Favorite track: Hymn IV - Puissant.

Dmitry Nevozhay Other-dimensional hypnotic masterpiece of psychedelic blackened death. Seriously... AOTY

Jeff Vicario Spire. I discovered them a year ago and have been waiting for this album ever since. Everything about Temple of Khronos is pretty much perfect but the what makes this album extra special are the vocals. They are insanely good. Awe inspiring in fact. Favorite track: Hymn II - Tormentor.

Kadotuksen Varjo I'll be damned, Spire has really outdone their spectacular 2016 debut album. The madness and atmosphere contained in these tracks washes over the listener like a ravenous shadow that leaves nothing standing behind in its wrath. Bloody good album and my new favourite album of 2021 so far. Favorite track: Hymn III - Harbinger.

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	1.	Chronometer 01:23
	2.	Hymn I - Tyrant 06:03
	3.	Hymn II - Tormentor 10:12
	4.	Hymn III - Harbinger 05:21
	5.	Interlude - Antithesis 02:58
	6.	Hymn IV - Puissant 08:07
	7.	Hymn V - Khronos 05:52

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Obscure Australian dark metal futurists Spire return with their immense sophomore full-length album "Temple of Khronos", a reality-bending psychedelic/progressive extreme metal masterpiece of the highest order that will disassociate the listener and teleport them outside their own consciousness, reality, and self. Continuing their cryptic inner war against metal traditionalism and musical conventions in general, this time the Australian atmospheric black metal shapeshifters have fearlessly peeled back the hazy outer layer of their primordial black metal sound to reveal a previously unseen, massive, and glistening, architecture of cinematic sonic dark matter that elevates their imaginative and visionary power to unseen heights, opening worlds inside the listener into which be drawn, trapped and dissolved within one's own consciousness and self. Immensely evocative, and shrouded in a profound and majestic mysticism, "Temple of Khronos" is a foreboding sonic gateway that will push your imagination to its limits as it explores the concepts of time as a deity, tyrant, and as ultimate engineer and destroyer of reality to connect the listener with an obscure and distant future civilization that in facing its own inevitable demise stares back into time facing us with our own nothingness, powerlessness and finality. The album's immense atmospheres and its seemingly boundless imaginative force stem primarily from its crisp but layered and dense production quality that works as a catalyst to channel an unseen and massive sensorial overload of sound in which cinematic and multilayered vocal arrangements (the temple's "choir"), lysergic atmospheres and winding, epic instrumental constructs cyclically collapse to surround the listener and submerge them in an otherworldly ritual of consciousness-altering and space-time distorting aural immensity.

LP/CD/Tape/Merch orders through Sentient Ruin Laboratories (Worldwide) & Brilliant Emperor Records (AUS/NZ)

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released February 19, 2021

Written, recorded and mixed by Spire
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork art by Łukasz Koniuszy

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Spire Melbourne, Australia

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Temple of Khronos

Feb 2021
Entropy

Aug 2016
Scientia 7"

Jan 2015
Metamorph EP

Nov 2011
Spire EP

Feb 2010

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