Shadow by Red Ankh
Purchase physical CD, album one: https://www.createspace.com/2216422
Album two: https://www.createspace.com/2216429
Purchase of complete digital album on Bandcamp includes instrumental versions of songs that otherwise contain lyrics.
Officially released in 2013, this is a dark symphonic metal double album by Red Ankh. Unlike previous releases from recent years, this album is composed of entirely new material written over the past year, except for the two tracks 'Remember Kata' and 'Ugluwiktz' which were pulled from discontinued instrumental albums that decidedly did not belong there. Across the double album there are four instrumental interludes featuring unconventional organic instruments. The first 'disk' ends with a cross breed remix of 'Let's Drag You Down'.
Lyrics shed light on the core story from Shyft's writing, the refrain from 'Down Below' being a poem from the third book of the Shyfted Dreaming Trilogy. Otherwise, the lyrical focus ranges from ethics to self-doubt and madness, to more whimsical, lighthearted themes.
Tracklist
| 1. | Walking Away | 2:38 |
| 2. | Let's Drag You Down | 5:44 |
| 3. | Black Mind | 7:16 |
| 4. | Killer | 7:14 |
| 5. | Cave Pools | 3:04 |
| 6. | Dream with Me | 5:25 |
| 7. | In Between | 3:05 |
| 8. | Intergalactic Island | 8:50 |
| 9. | Layers | 6:43 |
| 10. | Remember Kata | 9:02 |
| 11. | Ugluwiktz | 8:34 |
| 12. | Let's Drag You Down (Shyft Remix) | 5:02 |
| 13. | Infiltrate, Decimate, Confiscate | 7:39 |
| 14. | Broken | 9:46 |
| 15. | Reflections | 3:39 |
| 16. | Burned Passions | 4:21 |
| 17. | Dark Woodland Wonders | 3:14 |
| 18. | Down Below (Chinic) | 5:43 |
| 19. | Firelight | 6:45 |
| 20. | Rhythmus Tempore | 8:15 |
| 21. | Bittersweet | 23:19 |
| 22. | Going Home | 3:08 |
Credits
Drums, Guitars, Viola, Keyboard, Vox, Vox Programming, Programming, Composition, Mastering, Crappy Shop Art, the whole shebang - Shyft Trakia-Vorga VahtiDahl
License
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
Red Ankh is about fantastic emotions and wild ideas, with an industrial folk prog metal core touching on elements of black metal, chiptune, dance, death metal, gothic, hardcore techno, power metal, symphonic metal, groove metal, and trance.
Early works were mostly instrumental. Then Bronze happened. The goal of the project is to break down genre boundaries, keep music inventive, and inspire.