Artist: HEGEMON
Album: THE HIERARCH LTD. EDIT. (DIGI)

Release date: 2016
EAN/UPS: 822603186628
Media type: CD

Symphonic, classic, elegant and yet fierce, harsh and imbued with cold darkness: seven years after 'Contemptus Mundi' heaped scorn upon the world, HEGEMON finally strike again with 'The Hierarch'. The roots are showing. There are traces of EMPEROR's complex and epic arrangements as well as a hint of the orchestral might championed by DIMMU BORGIR to be found in the compositions of this enigmatic French quintet. With an added dose of early ENSLAVED and BORKNAGAR the Norwegian inspiration becomes all transparent and still the French manage to infuse their own musical shape and will into their sinister compositions. The country’s touch is undeniably present.

Recommended if you like: DIMMU BORGIR, EMPEROR, early BORKNAGAR, early ENSLAVED, THYRFING ...

TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

01. Hatred From The Core: Tempus Incognito
02. Interpreting Signs For War: Aruspicine
03. Elysean Expectations, Earthly Deceptions
04. Rays Of Lie: There Will Be A Time You Will Give Anything For A Piece Of Salvation
05. Atomos: Seed Of The Quantic Gods
06. Renovatio Imperii
07. Credo Quia Absurdum
08. Hierarch: The Empire Of Zero