The Old King of Witches

by Old Tower

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000 this record embodies adventure, unknown inquiry, and hardship-enjoyment from realms beyond and within... words do little justice. dive in stillness.

hallowedhalls OT, master of ambient feels. A strange kind of peace may be found in Night's Spell and Winter Embers. While some tracks feel more developed than others, as a whole the narrative of the stranger's journey works well. Favorite track: Winter Embers.

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- The Old King of Witches LP
- The Old King of Witches A5 CD
- Plague Harvest / Ruination, a New Dawn Cometh LP + 10”
- Grim Alchemy LP
- Tales of the Mad Moon 2xCD digipack
- Triton Reef Spires bonus cassette (bundle exclusive)
- Old Tower 'Mad Moon’ silkscreen black felt with silver print slipmat (bundle exclusive)
- xeroxed poster
- Beaten Face of the Oak Tree no. 01 - zine with interview, flyers, behind the scenes and unreleased photos

All audio releases include digital download code, including CDs.

Triton Reef Spires

Exclusively available to this bundle is a new cassette containing brand-new and obscure material. The trumpets sound far in the distance over the cerulean seas, invoking the surges that flow eternally through the sunken coral temples. 'Triton Reef Spires' is the heat burning the limestone structures, the flickering on the ultramarine surface, allowing riddles to wash ashore and ponder within the spirit of man.

Bonus cassette with xerox cover and digital download code.

Note: limited to a total of 333 bundles across 3 variants:

• all black vinyl
• all color vinyl
• all picture discs
• the bonus cassette, poster, and zine are the same for each variant and are included with all bundles!

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limited bundle of 333 includes:

- The Old King of Witches LP
- The Old King of Witches A5 CD
- Plague Harvest / Ruination, a New Dawn Cometh LP + 10”
- Grim Alchemy LP
- Tales of the Mad Moon 2xCD digipack
- Triton Reef Spires bonus cassette (bundle exclusive)
- Old Tower 'Mad Moon’ silkscreen black felt with silver print slipmat (bundle exclusive)
- xeroxed poster
- Beaten Face of the Oak Tree no. 01 - zine with interview, flyers, behind the scenes and unreleased photos

All audio releases include digital download code, including CDs.

Triton Reef Spires

Exclusively available to this bundle is a new cassette containing brand-new and obscure material. The trumpets sound far in the distance over the cerulean seas, invoking the surges that flow eternally through the sunken coral temples. 'Triton Reef Spires' is the heat burning the limestone structures, the flickering on the ultramarine surface, allowing riddles to wash ashore and ponder within the spirit of man.

Bonus cassette with xerox cover and digital download code.

Note: limited to a total of 333 bundles across 3 variants:

• all black vinyl
• all color vinyl
• all picture discs
• the bonus cassette, poster, and zine are the same for each variant and are included with all bundles!

Includes unlimited streaming of The Old King of Witches via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more

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	1.	Wych Totem 02:41
	2.	Night's Spell 05:46
	3.	The Dwelling 04:45
	4.	Woods of Algor 03:01
	5.	Red Dragon Bones 03:45
	6.	Winter Embers 03:56
	7.	Thorngrove 03:05
	8.	The Drifter of Duskmire 05:52
	9.	Homunculus 03:06
	10.	Temple of the Blue Sun 03:45

about

the masterful new album from oId tower. Traditional and yet alien, the deconstruction of regression as transformation from man to beast, which conceptually was felt throughout the project's wanderings but steps forth fully from the shadows on 'the old king of witches.' Shaving down to the bone and trimming the fat of the carcass to incant without rest and without resolution, oId tower resurrects the dying breed of dark ambient with '90s deep electronics to conceive of a new form of DARK MUSIC.

the most pure form of oId tower always reaches for fictional reality and time stasis.

conceptually on 'the old king of witches' we follow ‘a stranger’ who enters a derelict domain, full of old and rotten pine trees, scattered rocks overgrown with dark green moss and strange reclusive inhabitants. some of these inhabitants are witches who worship the ancient evil that roams this place. through the use of forbidden magic, they slowly pull the ‘stranger’ deeper into their forest world and we follow him on this journey through the woods, caverns, fields, and groves of this mysterious land. the old king is the ruler of this land. not a physical manifestation, but a symbol for the attraction of the mysterious and the dark.

a place where the new comes to die, and the old tends to thrive.

ff you are lost, fall back on what is old and familiar, to find that new energy in places you have not visited in a while or never visited at all.

DARK MUSIC.

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released October 31, 2021

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