*Artist: The Archon Rift
*Album: The Harrowing Path Between Loathing And Love
*Year: 2025
*Genre: Instrumental Technical/Symphonic Death Metal
*Country: Australia
*Format: flac
*Size: 389MB
Tracklist:
1. Nonagesimus 05:27
2. Prerogative of Palamedes 03:26
3. Adrift 01:28
4. The Cavalier's Conundrum 04:29
5. King Undying 05:20
6. The Harrowing Path I: Undone Without You 01:20
7. The Harrowing Path II: Aught But Death 04:33
8. The Harrowing Path III: An Incandescent Soul 06:01
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Total playing time: 32:04
Extended info
The Harrowing Path Between Loathing and Love is an instrumental symphonic technical death metal tribute to the incredible The Locked Tomb book series by Tamsyn Muir. It features meticulously crafted music to match plot points, character arcs, and lore from the books, made real by the diversity and dynamism of a full orchestral arrangement and a plethora of incendiary guitar-driven theatrics. Everything down to the usage of specific keys and chords that relate to characters and time signatures that relate to the plot was crafted with storytelling in mind. The album represents The Archon Rift on a truly ambitious scale.
Each song bestows a unique feeling and intensity, culminating in a twelve-minute closing track that journeys from the character Harrowhark Nonagesimus’s self-loathing to suffering to mourning to the acceptance of her love for Gideon.
For music of this level of technicality, The Harrowing Path Between Loathing and Love is an incredibly diverse and engaging album. Influences from film and video game scores to the blackest reaches of metal to electronica to 80s hair metal feature in abundance. Fans of a vast number of genres are sure to find something within the album that calls to them.
Each song bestows a unique feeling and intensity, culminating in a twelve-minute closing track that journeys from the character Harrowhark Nonagesimus’s self-loathing to suffering to mourning to the acceptance of her love for Gideon.
For music of this level of technicality, The Harrowing Path Between Loathing and Love is an incredibly diverse and engaging album. Influences from film and video game scores to the blackest reaches of metal to electronica to 80s hair metal feature in abundance. Fans of a vast number of genres are sure to find something within the album that calls to them.
Technical info
Input File: 5. King Undying.flac
Channels : 2
Sample Rate : 44100
Precision : 24-bit
Duration : 00:05:20.97 = 14154813 samples = 24072.8 CDDA sectors
File Size : 67.5M
Bit Rate : 1.68M
Sample Encoding: 24-bit FLAC
Comments :
Album=The Harrowing Path Between Loathing and Love
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Lyricist=Trent
Lyricist=Henderson
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Date=2025-06-13
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Genre=Instrumental Technical Symphonic Death Metal
Copyright=Returnal Recordings
Composer=Henderson
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