Prophet Ilja
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Five years after the release of their critically acclaimed album, Hospodi (2019), Polish black metal icons PATRIARKH (former Batushka) return with new concept album ?????? ???? (Engl. PROPHET ILJA). On eight completely new compositions, ?????? ???? details a true story that happened in the band?s home area of Podlasie, in the village of Grzybowszczyzna, in the 1930s and 40s. The album takes the listener into the world of Eliasz Klimowicz, the titular Prophet Ilja, an illiterate peasant who was the leader of the Orthodox Grzybowska Sect, active until the 1960s, cultivating and transmitting the history of the self-proclaimed prophet. PATRIARKH are spreading their gospel by using an arsenal of folk instruments, such as tagelharpa, mandolin, mandocello, hurdy gurdy and stringed dulcimer, and worked with a symphony orchestra and choirs to give their new creations the most organic and vivid feeling possible. As is trademark with PATRIARKH?s music, Orthodox sacredness is mixed with black and doom metal, now largely enriched with folk music, neo dark folk, and even film music. The band uses the entire palette of Orthodox music, venturing into the areas of Byzantine monody, liturgical chant and Russian polyphony, neatly adapting folk and liturgical melodies to their own style.The lyrical side of ?????? ???? is an interesting mix of theater and pastoralism. PATRIARKH uses fragments of texts from the theater play 'Prorok Ilja' and draws from the messages contained in the works of Wlodzi
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Catalogue Number: NPR1225DPFormat: CD
Artist: Patriarkh
Release Date: 03 January 2025
Genre: Metal
Label: NAPALM RECORDS
Distributor: Rocket Group
