Solstice by Realms

Realms Solstice

Released on the darkest night of the year, at the exact moment of the winter solstice, this is the culmination of a musical journey that started in 1989. We fell off the path for a while and never got to make this album back in the day, but better later than never. Play as loud as possible

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"I listened to it and it was ferocious."
- Random Realms Fan

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Realms is:
Michael Kaiser: Guitars
Chris Slaine: Bass
Lisa Tate: Drums

Technical details
This album is in C Minor. Guitar and Bass are tuned to standard C.
All songs are 60bpm or lower.

Recorded with a 2007 Ibanez RG with a Seymour Duncan Nazgûl pickup, Orange amp and cab with 12” V30 speaker, Shure SM57 microphone. Effects by Earthquaker Devices, Black Art Tone Works, Friedman. Most songs use an EQD Plumes Overdrive into my homemade Bazz Fuss pedal with Blue LED (asymmetrical clipping). Black Art Toneworks Pharaoh was used on a few songs and Freidman BE-OD Deluxe was used on the Unison songs. For bass, a 1980’s Fender Precision with stock pickups, a Darkglass Alpha Omega, DI into the board. For drums, a Ludwig kit, Zildjian cymbals, recorded with Shure microphones.

Recorded, mixed and mastered in AUM with Fab-Filter plugins at Honeywood Studio.

Tracklist

1.	All Hallows' Eve	1:59

2.	Unison Part One	2:59

3.	Kingdoms	2:22

4.	Precious Little Goat	2:06

5.	Forever Again	4:08

6.	The Coven	2:47

7.	Dawn of a New Doom	1:51

8.	Unison Part Two	2:14

9.	Lady Bladenight	2:28

10.	Crawling	2:33

11.	Stiff Picks	2:13

12.	Resurrected	4:59

13.	Starcrush	1:55

14.	Pentachronic	2:26

15.	Jupiter	3:06

16.	Void God Ice	3:01

17.	Kingdom Reprise	2:50

Credits

released December 21, 2023

Thanks to my Mom and Dad, James, Autrelle, Chris, Bill, Stephanie, Summer, Rob, and our biggest fan, 2-1/2 yr-old Taylor.

Realms Will Never End

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