Here's an exclusive announcement from ICE DRAGON about their upcoming 3d album, thanx to Joe and Ron for this amazing write-up !!!
To Whom It May Concern
I recently discovered the manuscript while rambling in the woods with my dog. It was a few weeks shy of the vernal equinox, and the fine ends of the trees had just begun to show green. My hound had left me alone on the trail to go nose about the scrub—and possibly ferret out something living to eat—when suddenly I heard him calling. I found him pawing furiously at the ground in front of a weird tree with a huge trunk and massive branches sprouting low. Its bark was hard as granite and almost blue in color. My dog ceased his digging and looked at me, seemingly imploring me to dig further. I loosened the soil with my knife and continued the excavation until I struck something hard: it was a bound volume bearing the engraving “Tome of the Future Ancients by Ice Dragon." Inside, the leaves were filled with inscrutable symbols, ritualistic diagrams, and illustrations of strange flora and fauna. Even the must that invaded my nose as I turned the pages was alien.
What had I found?
Once home, I began to research and quickly discovered that there was a musical entity named Ice Dragon who worked in a basement not far from where the book had been. I contacted them to see if they had hidden it as some sort of promotional stunt. When I mentioned the engraving on the front, there was a pregnant pause on their end of the line. They assured me they had no knowledge of the book. However, what they revealed next gave me pause:
They had just completed their third album, and it was titled "Tome of the Future Ancients". It was to be released on the day of the equinox. Sure enough, this turned out to be true.
By now, I was almost certain they were simply in the business of creating hype. There was no doubt they were responsible for the creation and burying of the book. Or so I was convinced, until carbon dating proved ineffective, and my academic peers who specialize in cryptography responded to my inquiries with blank looks.
Then, quite simply, the book vanished. One day it was in my study, and the next it was gone. Perhaps one of my colleagues grew jealous of my discovery and stole it; perhaps the woman who cleans my house disposed of it in fear upon opening it. Truthfully? I’m almost relieved it is gone for I hadn’t experienced a restful night since bringing it into my home. My dreams were black, and my dog would bay at the threshold of the room that held the damned book.
For now, the only Tome of the Future Ancients by Ice Dragon available for study is this one. May it always be so.
-Professor Cepheus Hallow-
That's too bad about his dog.
Anyway for this album, we just gathered some guitars and amps, and drums and beers and stuff and kicked out the jams in the basement. Still using the old Tascam 4-track and a computer from 1999 (no joke). It's the Ice Dragon you know- heavy as a mountain, light as a dying breath- but we also expanded our palette as the nerds say, those with sharps ears will hear sitar, Mellotron, bowed bass, more synths and other aural goodies this time out. We made a microphone from a coffee can and a boomobx speaker, sang through oatmeal containers, recorded outside in a gentle rain, twiddled knobs on the fly while mixing, drank whiskey, lit peanuts and french fries on fire and spilled beer on everything. We 're really excited about the album. We think it's our best and most cohesive statement ever.and we hope it hearkens backto time when listening to an album was a journey. It's a double, twelve songs, across four sides .
1 Manuscript 408
2 NATIAIWS
3 Man Sitting in a Field of Green Grass
4 Illuminations Foretold
5 Steal away from Hell
6 Astronomical Union
7 The Black Book of Hours
8 Night
9 Crystal Countdown into Alpha
10 The Bearted MAge
11 Adoration of Ra
12 Infinitre Requiem
That's "Tome of the Future Ancients" - we suggest playing it loud, in the dark, for maixum efect.
That's too bad about his dog.
Anyway for this album, we just gathered some guitars and amps, and drums and beers and stuff and kicked out the jams in the basement. Still using the old Tascam 4-track and a computer from 1999 (no joke). It's the Ice Dragon you know- heavy as a mountain, light as a dying breath- but we also expanded our palette as the nerds say, those with sharps ears will hear sitar, Mellotron, bowed bass, more synths and other aural goodies this time out. We made a microphone from a coffee can and a boomobx speaker, sang through oatmeal containers, recorded outside in a gentle rain, twiddled knobs on the fly while mixing, drank whiskey, lit peanuts and french fries on fire and spilled beer on everything. We 're really excited about the album. We think it's our best and most cohesive statement ever.and we hope it hearkens backto time when listening to an album was a journey. It's a double, twelve songs, across four sides .
1 Manuscript 408
2 NATIAIWS
3 Man Sitting in a Field of Green Grass
4 Illuminations Foretold
5 Steal away from Hell
6 Astronomical Union
7 The Black Book of Hours
8 Night
9 Crystal Countdown into Alpha
10 The Bearted MAge
11 Adoration of Ra
12 Infinitre Requiem
That's "Tome of the Future Ancients" - we suggest playing it loud, in the dark, for maixum efect.
Ron adds : " We are planning to release the album on the Spring Equinox, March 20th, 2012. It will be released on our Bandcamp first, and is being later being put out on vinyl by Yersinia Pestis Records. The bandcamp download will be "pay-what-you-want" again, like our other albums. We don't have the cover art yet, but will for the release on the 20th."
(if you haven't got both first albums of I.D., you should be blamed !!! but now they kindly offer you the possibility to repair your mistake with "name your price" downloads... hurry up before the killer new album ;) Ron has sent me a song named "Manuscript 408" which is simply awesome, judge by yourselves, enjoy and be ready for THE highlight of the Spring...
i'm extremely excited about this!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this, I just got into them and love their stuff.
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