Into The Witch's Lair

by CROM

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1.	Gollum in the Mist 03:04	buy track
2.	Clouded Journey Through Frozen Marshes 06:05	buy track
3.	Hymn for the Fallen Gondorians 02:09	buy track
4.	Flight of the Nazgul 05:17
5.	Lothlorien's Betrayal 06:31	buy track
6.	The Romance of Angmar 07:12	buy track

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A long-tilted valley, a deep gulf of shadow, ran back far into the mountains. Upon the further side, some way within the valley's arms, high on a rocky seat upon Ephel Dúath, stood the walls and towers of Minas Morgul. All was dark about it, earth and sky, but it was lit with light. Not the light welling through the marble walls of Minas Ithil long ago, fair and radiant in the hollow of the hills. Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing.

Belgian multi-instrumentalist Stanley Christiaensen, also active in The Immortal Samsara Travelers and Polymelia delves into Tolkienian Dungeon synth infusing 70's German kosmische muzik with pastoral, anachronistic melodies and haunting samples on his debut Into The Witch's Lair, cassettes coming soon via Petrol Candy records.

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released June 10, 2022

Stanley Christiaensen:

keyboards
synthesizers
samplers
drum machines
vocals
visions
nightmares
hatred for mankind

polymelia1.bandcamp.com/album/saturn-neptune

theimmortalsamsaratravelers.bandcamp.com/album/hanging-gardens-in-glacial-apocha

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CROM Antwerp, Belgium

Visions of decay
thawing dreams
endless night
failing starlight
distant cries

HUMANS ARE VILE

Stanley Christiaensen=CROM

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