Resurrection of Dry Bones Dark Ambient LP

 

    Resurrection of Dry Bones is technically the first full length album for this project, but it's not black metal. You could call it dark ambient or dungeon synth, whatever your preferred language is in that regard. Much like the demos before it, each track is based around the idea of a specific Bible passage. What separates this from the demo material is that it's more mature and has better production, at least I see it that way. I took a lot more time to write the tracks and work on the concepts. The demos were primarily me searching to find the direction I wanted to go in for the project, both for the ambient and the metal parts of it. There are alternate versions of every track on this album, but I have no current plans to release any of those alternates.

    In short, this is what happens when I find the pocket where I want to create music, and throw myself into it full force for several months. 

    I started working on this very soon after I finished the, "Though The Righteous Fall Seven Times," demo, which introduced working with noises and sounds that weren't totally based around sounds created with synths like the first demo. Longer tracks, better effects, and a wealth of creative distortion helped guide me to make this, as well as a heavy dose of very deep prayer to guide me in the right direction.  

    The cover art is by Gustave Dore. All of his work is in the public domain, and it is of course a portion of his work, "The Vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones." The inserts for the physical edition will have more of that piece throughout, and I will likely limit it to a specific number of copies, as is tradition for this genre.

    The titles are intended to be evocative of the Bible passages that accompany them, as are the sonic contents. Each one of these could be a blog post in and of themselves and very well might end up that way if I decide to stop being so lazy about it. To make it nice and pretentious from the standpoint of the inspired artist, I need to meditate upon those passages to explain my point of view on them. This is in stark contrast to my belief in simple salvation and enjoying plain language explanations of Biblical concepts. Funny how that works, but I'm not willing to lie about my proclivities. Thank you God for inspiring each and every one of these tracks and guiding me to give them the names they have. Without that inspiration, it would be empty tape hiss and the sound of me breathing for 43 minutes.

    Thank you all, anyone who listens, anyone who reaches out, and anyone who opens their Bible to read and consider the passages as they listen. As dark as some things may sound, this is all intended to glorify God. 

    Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning, our song shall rise to these.