IDES OF GEMINI: Streaming New Track "The Chalice & The Blade"

In celebration of Old World New Wave, the impending new release from ethereal sound serpents, […]

August 7, 2014

In celebration of Old World New Wave, the impending new release from ethereal sound serpents, Ides Of Gemini, the band has offered up the first official sampling of the record with "The Chalice & The Blade".

Relays singer/bassist Sera Timms of the tune, "The main riff (guitarist) J (Bennett) brought in for '...Chalice...' marches in as a transcendent assault with (drummer) Kelly (Johnston-Gibson)'s oppressive, jagged beat moving it forward like some re-animated corpse. A mechanized shamanic trance that sent me straight into the underworld lyrically."

Comments Timms of the offering, "For Old World New Wave we all really coalesced as a band, and were able to work off one another's strengths. J came up with the basic concept and musical framework of the album, and Kelly and I gave it form and identity. For me, my own personal musical identity, taste, preferences etc. were eclipsed by the power of the music which worked as an animate force unto itself - so much so that I cannot listen to any of it objectively, or tell you if it's good or bad, but I can tell you that it's distinctively Ides Of Gemini."

Adds Johnston-Gibson of the images surrounding the record, "The artwork is an interpretation of Sera's lyrical narrative, which carries over themes from Constantinople, as well as symbolic of transformations experienced by us as individuals and inevitably as a band. The minimalist, direct style of the cover and accompanying illustrations is indicative of our energies combined to create one clear, singular force, as experienced through the music, while the visual content has more to do with the story: essentially a conflict between opposing energies leading to destruction, therefore allowing a clean slate for integration of opposites into a resurrected whole."

Old World New Wave tracklisting:

"Black Door"
"The Chalice & The Blade"
"Seer Of Circassia"
"White Hart"
"May 22, 1453"
"The Adversary"
"Fememorde"
"Valediction"
"Scimitar"

Album trailer: