
Artist: Garden Gnome
Album: Phegnomenology of Spirit
Release Date: October 20th, 2023
Genres: Blackened Dungeon Synth
Formats: Digital, Cassette
Label: Voices Of The Ainur
Location: Denton, Texas, USA
Length: 10:49
Price: NYP Digital, $10 CAD Cassette
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Gnome Lore
Hegelgnome delved deeper into the Herz and Gemüter of the Gnomewegians than any philosopher who came before him. He konfrontierte them with the harsh Realitäten of their Daseins, and he challenged their glaubensinhalte, causing a rupture in the once harmonisch Gnomeway. The Gnomewegians, unaccustomed to such philosophical upheaval, became severely geteilt over the profound Fragen posed by Hegelgnome. Passionate Debatten often escalated into bitter Streitfragen, and factions emerged, each interpreting Hegelgnome’s Lehre in their own way. The once-united Gnomeway now stood fractured in the Dialektik, and animosity seethed among its inhabitants.
– Garden Gnome
Fueled by their fervor for Verständnis, some Gnomewegians took extreme actions to prove the validity of their interpretations. They formed zealous Gruppen that clashed with one another, their disagreements on capitalism escalating into violence. The fog of confusion that Hegelgnome had invoked seemed to suffocate all, leaving only destruction and sorrow in the wake of the intellektuellen Krieges.
Hegelgnome saw the Konsequenzen of his actions unfold before him. He was warned by Gnomenhauer that his pursuits to illuminate the World-Geist would only activate malevolent realisms. The defeat weighed heavily on Hegelgnome’s Schultern. He questioned the morality of his actions and the limits of philosophischen Erkundung. The ethical principles he had espoused seemed to crumble under the harsh reality of the devastation he had inadvertently wrought. He had failed to consider the fragility of the Gnomewegian social fabrik. And he banished himself, hoping that one day Gnomeway would cleanse itself of any record of his verbose prose.
Album Credits
Jason Kiss – Everything
Guest vocals on Die Stunde ihrer Geburt by David Burke
Track List:
- Die Stunde ihrer Geburt (01:52)
- Phegnomenology of Spirit (03:17)
- Das Ding an Sich (Am Ende wird Gnomenhauer als der wahre Erbe des Gnomewegian Idealismus gefeiert werden) (02:10)
- Getötet von der Dialektik (03:29)
More About the Album:
A hauntingly atmospheric release that captures the best of black metal and dungeon synth while seamlessly blending both.
A release that draws on a depth of fantasy based gnome lore, while tying in very real concepts of philosophy, politics, ideological conflict and faction based purges.
A project of Jason Kiss (a. k. a. Lonegoat) of Goatcraft.