Pharaoh Overlord

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Smekermann I think this album is wholly overlooked in Circle's discography, probably because it's so weird sounding. But you know what? It's a goddamn masterpiece.

The first song sounds like alternate reality epic soundtrack music, with a single scream denoting danger ahead. The second song tells a story - it may not be a pleasant one, but it's absolutely mesmerizing, much like folk tales of old. Throat-shredding screams give way to a haunting bass groove.

Pharaoh Overlord from beyond. Favorite track: Kävelen luiden päällä.

Matthew Altieri I'm strangely reminded of Les Baxter style 60s lounge/exotica, but if it were written for cathedral services. Real heavy guitars under all the horns! Favorite track: Aldebaran.

Fred Jorissen Circle brings music that cleans the soul. There must be something in that Cold Pori air.

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1.	Koitto 11:33	buy track
2.	Kävelen luiden päällä 10:50	buy track
3.	Aavasaksa 06:47	buy track
4.	Aldebaran 06:37	buy track
5.	Madonna of Viggiano 07:06	buy track

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Circle’s Pharaoh Overlord is bound to contest all speculations you ever heard of these savant ritualists. What’s clear is that Pharaoh Overlord means the intrusion of the namesake of this album into Circle.

It is a forest of fire. Their self-possessed purge from self-referentiality, oddly enough, intensifies the paradox-ridden spree with which Circle have ignited the very building blocks of the band itself into fiction that is ever leaking out into reality-infested horizons surrounding the voluptuous standstill of the vortex of music that is Circle’s Pharaoh Overlord. Horns and vocal chants hover like a hail storm above the stabbed soil of murky beats. This is epic experimental rock that will condense any impulse or mundane logic into pure inevitability.

On Pharaoh Overlord, Circle explore the smouldering terrain of their kindred spirits to find the means of transgressing the border of parallel existence with their idols (that is, Pharaoh Overlord) with the intent of merging into one abstract entity of sonic flesh. There is no sobriety like loss of identity.

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released June 21, 2016

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