Mantras

France's enigmatic Grande Loge present their fist full length offering. Established in 2017 as a ritualised acoustic entity from Black Metal horde Malepeste and Tower of Silence to forge a crafty melange of aerial ambient, martial folk and transcendental chants using ethnic and traditional instruments, violin, buzuki, nafar, shaman drums and tanpura. "Mantras" is a suite of pagan prayers, a spiritual call to initiate an ecstatic inner voyage. Chants are composed of originals mantras, phonemes put together for their aesthetic and sonic value, a vocalised form of Chaos Magick. The track "Mithra Invictus" is a French translation of a prayer to the solar god Mithra while "Hekaten" is an prayer to the goddess Hecate in ancient Greek. Artwork by Quentin Q. Standard Edition LP on Black vinyl in 200 copies. 3mm sleeve and printed inner sleeve, matt lamination. 7 Tracks Running Time 46:00