SkyThala for Tech/Extreme

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   Appearing suddenly in late 2022, SkyThala are an American avant-garde black metal trio from Tennessee and part of the genre-blurring Moonlight Cypress Archetypes collective. The studio project consists of collective head Ryan Clackner (guitars, bass, vocals), Edward Longo (keyboards) and the New Jersey-based Sean Meyers (drums).
The concept of SkyThala began as something between a joke and a personal challenge between Clackner and Longo, whose shared love of classical music lead them to attempt to score and orchestrate a hypothetical progressive black metal band based on a particular admiration for Igor Stravinsky. When SkyThala surpassed their expectations and quickly took shape, Clackner recruiting Meyers to complete their vision with his remotely-tracked drumwork. Forgoing the North American folk and country techniques which characterise Clackner's satellite projects Crestfallen Dusk, Vile Haint and Primeval Well, SkyThala instead draw and expand on the symphonic black metal pioneered by Emperor while adding flourishes borrowed from dissonant death metal and Stravinsky's harsh oeuvre, earning them comparisons to Thantifaxath, Krallice, Dordeduh, Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant and Aquilus.
SkyThala's debut LP, Boreal Despair, was released via I, Voidhanger in 2022. The band claim the lyrics (which remain unprinted) address "Czarism/Russian Revolution, the tundra, Siberian prisons, and Rasputin, among other things." A sophomore album is currently in the works, replacing Stravinsky with a focus on György Ligeti.

"Boreal Despair" (2022)
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/boreal-despair

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Gordy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Folk/Eclectic/PSIKE/Metal/Post/Math Team Joined: January 25 2007 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 4666	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gordy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: SkyThala for Tech/Extreme Posted: February 11 2023 at 02:02
	Appearing suddenly in late 2022, SkyThala are an American avant-garde black metal trio from Tennessee and part of the genre-blurring Moonlight Cypress Archetypes collective. The studio project consists of collective head Ryan Clackner (guitars, bass, vocals), Edward Longo (keyboards) and the New Jersey-based Sean Meyers (drums). The concept of SkyThala began as something between a joke and a personal challenge between Clackner and Longo, whose shared love of classical music lead them to attempt to score and orchestrate a hypothetical progressive black metal band based on a particular admiration for Igor Stravinsky. When SkyThala surpassed their expectations and quickly took shape, Clackner recruiting Meyers to complete their vision with his remotely-tracked drumwork. Forgoing the North American folk and country techniques which characterise Clackner's satellite projects Crestfallen Dusk, Vile Haint and Primeval Well, SkyThala instead draw and expand on the symphonic black metal pioneered by Emperor while adding flourishes borrowed from dissonant death metal and Stravinsky's harsh oeuvre, earning them comparisons to Thantifaxath, Krallice, Dordeduh, Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant and Aquilus. SkyThala's debut LP, Boreal Despair, was released via I, Voidhanger in 2022. The band claim the lyrics (which remain unprinted) address "Czarism/Russian Revolution, the tundra, Siberian prisons, and Rasputin, among other things." A sophomore album is currently in the works, replacing Stravinsky with a focus on György Ligeti. "Boreal Despair" (2022) https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/boreal-despair
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Gordy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Folk/Eclectic/PSIKE/Metal/Post/Math Team Joined: January 25 2007 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 4666	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gordy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 11 2023 at 02:06
	If this clears quickly I'm hoping to add their album to my AOTY list. There aren't any available band photos, so I'm going with their logo. I'm a bit suspicious of this project, enjoyable as it may be, as the combination of vague references to the Russian Revolution along with arch-reactionary Stravinsky is a bit of a red flag, but perhaps nothing more so than the project's name and logo. The only existing interview with Clackner doesn't even touch upon the album's themes or politics of any stripe; I don't know what "SkyThala" is meant to mean, but the Othala rune - against which the stylised band name appears - is extremely popular among Nazis of the old and new school.
	"Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full."

Cristi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Offline Points: 46851	Post Options Post Reply Quote Cristi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 25 2023 at 03:49
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