The Great Star Above Provides

by SOLAR TEMPLE

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Capt.Feeney So glad this is out for the summer. It is a glorious summer jam.

pinkytheent Seeing this set at Roadburn, as the hot sun shone through my window, was an unforgettable experience. An absolutely one-of-a-kind, luminous set. Almost a ritualistic experience, like that Slift show in the laboratory. Truly unique. Always hoped I would be able to buy it, and here it is! Praise the sun!

Ippocalyptica There are not many bands out there who can craft 17-minute songs that not only hold listeners' attention, but transport them to landscapes beyond the terrestrial and the tangible. Solar Temple can no longer be called black metal, but its evolution into psychedelic rock is something to behold! I eagerly await the full release to listen to the other three tracks.

Lukas Kaufmann Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Ever since watching the performance at Roadburn redux I've been craving to hear this again. It is finally happening! Amazing work Solar Temple! Favorite track: III.

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	1.	I 21:00
	2.	II 17:06
	3.	III 12:41
	4.	IV 09:14

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"We tried to push ourselves to musical horizons that we have touched or hinted at before, but now try to fully embrace and indeed give ourselves over to a deeper instinctual urge." - Solar Temple

It takes a vision of some distinction to stand out amid an unerringly over-populated black metal scene. Gelderland (NL) iconoclasts Solar Temple made it look easy with their 2018 debut album, Fertile Descent: a kaleidoscopic, deep-dive grimoire with atmosphere, melody, and a chewable sense of spectral dread, it defied extreme metal’s in-built conservatism and conjured a sonic world with no boundaries beyond an intuitive devotion to the dark. Consisting of the duo M. Koops (Fluisteraars, Nusquama) and O. (Turia, Iskandr, Dool) its musical adventurism should come as no surprise to those with a keen eye for the Dutch heavy music scene. The new album "The Great Star Above Provides" was written live in their rehearsal space during long improvisations between 2020 and 2021 and dives headfirst into the psychedelic spacerock undertones that have been a defining quality of Solar Temple since the beginning, while shedding the black metal confines of before.

"The Great Star Above Provides" was entirely live-recorded by the duo at the prestigious Roadburn Festival and aired for the first time at the festival's REDUX edition during the pandemic. With video and audio professionally recorded/mixed/mastered, Solar Temple`s unique interstellar performance is now released for the public.

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released April 28, 2023

Performed live by Solar Temple at Roadburn Redux 2021 at 013 • Tilburg • NL • live recordings courtesy of Roadburn Festival

Crew at 013
Light: Mark Tober
Studio: Ken Kuipers & Erik-Jan Dodd
Stage sound: René van Rijen

Video Staff
Regie: Jim Fokke
Grading: Bas Vermeeren
Camera: Robin van Belzen, Tim van der Voort, Remco Radstaat, Bas Visser, Fjodor de Lange, Martijn van de Wouw, Sander Mulkens
Jib: Merlijn Dielemans, Rinco Ederveen
Faciliteiten: VideoBrix

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Mixed by Sebastiaan van Bijlevelt and
Solar Temple at Galloway Recording Studio

Mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios,
Sutton Coldfield, UK

SOLAR TEMPLE is:
Omar Iskandr: Guitar, Effects, Floor Tom, Vocals
Mink Koops: Guitar, Effects, Drums

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