Description

2018 reissue. Double album on brown vinyls with gatefold cover.

In 2008 Melechesh took another step and signed with Nuclear Blast Records. Shortly before the new album went to the planning stages, Ashmedi was asked to write a monthly column about his life and thoughts. Still going these interesting autobiographical stories are being published worldwide by several big print and online publications which gained the band even more interest from all over the world and pushed the name already in advance of the album. This multidimensional aspect is characteristic for a band that constantly seeks to explore the many facets of the sub genre it forged within the extreme metal scene. Preferring quality to quantity, musical honesty over trend, Melechesh is answering a call. And so, with newly recruited Rahm on bass, in April 2010 the band was set to record their fifth album ‘The Epigenesis’. Against all trends the band went eastwards rather than going for any Scandinavian or US studio. ‘The Epigenesis’ was recorded in Istanbuls newly built first class Babajim Studio. Amongst other surprises, the album incorporates more organic elements, subtly integrating traditional instruments (such as yayli tanbur, Azeri Tar, baglama saz, Indian sitar and Persian santur), 12-string guitars and leaving room for jam-like improvisations that channel the inspiring aura of Istanbul, a city that has always been a melting point for cultures, for east an west. The end result is nothing more than sonic magick.

Track list:
1. Ghouls Of Nineveh
2. Grand Gathas Of Baal Sin
3. Sacred Geometry
4. The Magickan And The Drones
5. Mystics Of The Pillar
6. When Halos Of Candles Collide
7. Defeating The Giants
8. Illumination – The Face Of Shamash
9. Negative Theology
10. The Greater Chain Of Being
11. The Epigenesis