No Holier Temple
Label | Svart Records – SVR150 |
Format | 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Repress |
Barcode | 6430050660833 |
Country | Finland |
Released | 2013 |
Genre | Rock, Folk, World, & Country |
Style | Psychedelic Rock, Folk |
Repress of 2012 album on yellow vinyl. Psychedelic forest folk band Hexvessel, from Finland, return with their second full-length album! 'No Holier Temple' is the highly anticipated follow up to 2011's critically acclaimed debut album, Dawnbearer, that Roadburn Festival dubbed as "a passionate, urgent and gorgeously strange musical spell. 'No Holier Temple' fuses the acoustic '70s folk vibe of its predecessor into a more psychedelic, electric, doom-folk sound with Manzarek-like keys, screeching rhythmic Velvet Underground violins, Miles Davis trumpets and hypnotic freakouts. Inspired by the progressive, spaced-out haze of bands like Amon D��l II, Van Der Graaf Generator and Ultimate Spinach, whose song 'Your Head Is Reeling' they cover with religious abandon. Their sound now expands outward from their eerie, signature, ritual-esque intros into a genre-twisting cauldron of otherworldly rock and the late-night, dreamy spoken-word of artists such as Jim Morrison ('An American Prayer') and Ken Nordine.
Side Ash | |||
A1 | Heaven And Earth Magic | ||
A2 | Woods To Conjure | ||
A3 | Wilderness Is! | ||
A4 | A Letter In Birch Bark | ||
Side Birch | |||
B1 | Elegy To Goyahkla | ||
B2 | His Portal Tomb | ||
B3 | Are You Coniferous? | ||
Side Cedar | |||
C1 | Sacred Marriage | ||
C2 | Dues To The Dolmen | ||
Side Douglas Fir | |||
D1 | Unseen Sun | ||
D2 | Your Head Is Reeling |
Art Direction – Marja
Art Direction – Mat
Artwork [Booklet Cover Shaman Drawing By] – David D'Andrea
Cover, Layout – Jari Nieminen
Engineer – Kimmo Nyssonen
Engineer [Vocal And Extra Instrumentation Sessions Engineered By] – Oskar Skaag
Mixed By, Mastered By – Jaime Gomez Arellano
Music By, Songwriter [Songs By] – Mat McNerney
Performer [Hexvessel Is, Death Magicians] – Jukka
Performer [Hexvessel Is, Death Magicians] – Jussi
Performer [Hexvessel Is, Death Magicians] – Kimmo
Performer [Hexvessel Is, Death Magicians] – Marja
Performer [Hexvessel Is, Death Magicians] – Niini
Performer [Hexvessel Is, Death Magicians] – Simo
Performer [Hexvessel Is, Death Magicians] – Vesa
Performer [Hexvessel Is] – Mat McNerney
Photography By [Band Photos] – Samu Salovaara
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Bastian Kalous
Photography By [Live Photos] – Maija Lahtinen
Producer – Mat McNerney
Recorded By [Skeletons Of Various Tracks Recorded By] – Mat
Written-By – Carolyn Hillyer (C1)
Written-By – Ultimate Spinach (D2)
- 300 copies on rosewood brown vinyl
- 700 copies on black vinyl (this)
Included is a 7.5"x 7.5"- 16 page booklet.
Mixed and mastered at Orgone Studios.
Engineered and doctored in a wonderful live room at Space Junk.
Vocal and extra instrumentation sessions engineered at Stereotype.
Skeletons of various tracks recorded at Kalmistonkatu Studio.
Art direction by Mat and Marja for Brutal Gardener.
Copyright 2013 Svart Records.
Matrix / Runout (side A) – BC 82884-01 A1 MK
Matrix / Runout (side B) – BC 82884-01 B1 MK
Matrix / Runout (side C) – BC 82884-02 C1 MK
Matrix / Runout (side D) – BC 82884-02 D1 MK