IV: Mandragora

by Botanist

IV: Mandragora cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 February 2013
  • Label: The Flenser
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:54
  • Community rating: 3.14/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Otrebor continues his incredibly unique crusade against conventional black metal instrumentation on this fourth conceptual chapter. Rejecting the electric guitar entirely, the mysterious American musician relies exclusively on heavily distorted hammered dulcimers and blast-beat drumming to craft a frantic, deeply ecological, and misanthropic tribute to the natural world.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, Conceptual, Nature, nature, melodic, avant-garde, lo-fi, experimental, extreme, atmospheric, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Arboreal Gallows (Mandragora I) (02:40)
  2. Nightshade (Mandragora II) (05:03)
  3. To Amass an Army (Mandragora III) (04:29)
  4. Nourishing the Fetus (Mandragora IV) (03:32)
  5. Mandrake Legion (Mandragora V) (02:59)
  6. Sophora Tetraptera (04:31)
  7. Rhyncholaelia Glauca (09:40)

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