Music video:youtu.be/elezP1YlzwE

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As above, so below.

Round and round do the stars and planets dance in the sky, round and round do the seasons and civilizations dance upon the face of the Earth.

For in cycles does the cosmic wheel turn. The last will be first and the first will be last. And men like the moon will wax and wane by divine decree, as "He has created a thousand-thousand worlds and a thousand-thousand Adams".

Four main stages - or ages - from gold to silver, from silver to bronze and from bronze to iron, for mankind to live and die.

The first men lived as immortal gods, yet hubris led them to rebel and go down the spiral of life and death. Now imprisoned in the material realm, they slowly forgot their divine origin and became blind to the invisible world, violent and immoral, believing they were but flesh and bones and nothing else. As they got closer to the bottom of all possibilities, everything was upside down, time started going faster and faster and space seemed to be contracting more and more. They were petrified. Yet this process of solidification couldn't... go on forever and was eventually bound to lead to complete pulverization and dissolution, so that a new cycle could begin.

The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning.

As above, so below.

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This album was greatly inspired by René Guénon's "The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of Times", as well as by Plato's, Hesiod's and Ovid's writings.

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Re-member: all things are one in God.

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Eternal thanks to ERANG for allowing me to include the cover of one of the most magnificent dungeon synth songs ever made on this album: "The Dark Dungeon". If you haven't listened to the original song, go check it out here:erang.bandcamp.com/album/tome-ii.

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Special hails: Erang, Arsule, Ferin, Verdo, Sven Mor (HUARD PRODUCTIONS), Julien Lacroix (UNGAIKYO PROD), John Lordswood, Nobuo Uematsu, Mortiis, The Dungeon Noise Cavern YT channel, the French and international Dungeon Synth communities, my bandmates from Alloy (my black / death / thrash metal project), Alain (Usquam) and especially YOU.more

released July 3, 2023

All songs recorded by Werna Wolf from May to June 2023 using Logic Pro, a Sega chiptune sound font, a Roland Juno G as midi keyboard and a broken 1983 Casio CT-405 synthesizer.

"Golden Age", "Silver Age", "Bronze Age" and "Iron Age" were composed by Werna Wolf.

"The Dark Dungeon" was originally masterfully composed by Erang(erang.bandcamp.com/album/tome-ii).

Artwork and texts: Werna Wolf

The poem "Iron Age" contains excerpts from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming".