Bal-Sagoth
Bal-Sagoth is an extreme metal band from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, combining elements of black metal, symphonic, and classical music. Vocalist/lyricist Byron Roberts, who came up with the idea for the band around 1989, took the name 'Bal-Sagoth' from a Robert E. Howard short story The Gods of Bal-Sagoth. Their first demo was released in 1993; they have since released three albums on Cacophonous and three on Nuclear Blast. The band incorporates black metal influences and symphonic elements into an overall grandiose canvas, with the elaborate lyrics of Byron Roberts painting a picture of battles in an antediluvian age where Atlantis had not yet been destroyed and the continents were still joined in a Pangaean mass. A predominant feature is the use of epic keyboards played by Jonny Maudling who composes and arranges the music. The guitar, drums and keyboards work together as an integral entity rather like a symphonic work. The vocals of Byron Roberts are a mixture of spoken word and black metal screams making the songs more like stories set to music than anything else. The stories are told like a play, with many characters (or groups of characters, speaking in unison) exchanging dialogue. Byron uses different vocalizations and effects to set them apart. The songs frequently have very long titles. Byron intends to release some short stories and novellas based on his lyrics and also some graphic novels created in collaboration with the artist Martin Hanford. They currently ...
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Callisto rising
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Atlantis ascendant
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Battle Magic
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Draconis albionensis
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The awakening of the stars
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A Tale From the Deep Woods
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Invocations Beyond the Outer-World Night
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The voyagers beneath the mare imbrium
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Shackled to the Trilithon of Kutulu
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The Sixth Adulation of His Chthonic Majesty
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The empyreal lexicon
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The epsilon exordium
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Six Score and Ten Oblations to a Malefic Avatar
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The Obsidian Crown Unbound
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The Fallen Kingdoms Of The Abyssal Plain
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Star-maps of the ancient cosmographers
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The Hammer Of The Emperor
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Of Carnage and a Gathering of the Wolves
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The scourge of the fourth celestial host
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To Storm The Cyclopean Gates Of Byzantium
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The ghosts of angkor wat
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Crystal Shards
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Naked Steel (The Warrior's Saga)
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The dreamer in the catacombs of ur
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Unfettering the Hoary Sentinels of Karnak
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In search of the lost cities of antarctica
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Arcana Antediluvia
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The thirteen cryptical prophecies of mu
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Return To Hatheg-Kla
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Beneath the Crimson Vaults of Cydonia
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The chronicle of shadows
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Six keys to the onyx pyramid
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And Atlantis Falls...
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Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
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When Rides the Scion of the Storms
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Thwarted by the Dark (Blade of the Vampyre Hunter)
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Behold, the armies of war descend screaming from the heavens!
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Summoning the Guardians of the Astral Gate
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Dreaming of Atlantean Spires
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Journey to the Isle of Mists (Over the Moonless Depths of Night-Dark Seas)
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Blood Slakes the Sand at the Circus Maximus
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At the Altar of the Dreaming Gods (Epilogue)
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The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire
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Hatheg Kla
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A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
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Return to the Praesidium of Ys
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To Dethrone the Witch-Queen of Mytos K'unn (The Legend of the Battle of Blackhelm Vale)
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Enthroned in the Temple of the Serpent Kings
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The Ravening
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Witch-Storm
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