The Golden Bough

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Album Info

Release Date: 2010

Labels: Iron Kodex Records, Cruz Del Sur Music

Written, performed and produced in 2009 and 2010. Recordings took place under the Guidance of Sankt Markus, Sankt Leo, the Great and Sankt Odo of Cluny at Boar Cult Studios, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Kingdom of Bavaria. Mixed at Boar Cult Studios in July and August 2010. Mastered at Rosenquarz Tonstudio, Lübeck in August 2010.

Cover Painting "Die Toteninsel" (Version 3) used with kind Permission of Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

Second pressing comes with a lyric sheet (no A4 booklet and no poster).

Inside the booklet all titles are listed with the following bracketed subtitles - these however do not appear on neither cover nor label track listings:

I. Fountain of Nepenthe (Journey to the Island of the Blessed)
II. Pilgrim (Through the Ruins of Europa)
III. The White Goddess (A Grammar of Poetic Myth)
IV. Temple of Katholic Magick (Trinity of Steel)
V. Disciples of the Iron Crown (From the Grey Twilight)
VI. Vesperal Hymn (For a long-gone Friend)
VII. The Atlantean Kodex (Commanding the Iron Bataillons)
VIII. A Prophet in the Forest (Through Years of Longing)
IX. The Golden Bough (A Study in Magic and Religion)

The album itself is referred to with the same subtitle as the title track.

Pressing plant identified by the runout etchings.

All songs under copyright of Atlantean Kodex/Cruz Del Sur, 2010.

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