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dimanche, janvier 17, 2010 
Posted January 17th, 2010:


BASSIST MARK GREENWELL LEAVES BAND


Longtime BAL-SAGOTH bassist Mark Greenwell has left the band again, for personal reasons.
Alas, Mark's departure this time looks to be a permanent thing, so the name of the replacement bassist will be announced imminently.
We would of course like to thank Mark for the 12 exemplary years he served within the ranks of BAL-SAGOTH, and wish him the best of luck in all his future endeavours.

UPDATE:

Mark's replacement will be Alistair MacLatchy, who previously served with BAL-SAGOTH during the Starfire & Battle Magic era. Alistair will be joining us in Helsinki in March.




Posted January 12th, 2010:


RETURN TO FINLAND


BAL-SAGOTH: Live at the Dante's Highlight venue, Helsinki, Finland: March 20th.
Support comes from Frostbitten Kingdom.




Posted October 8th, 2009:


NEW BAL-SAGOTH T-SHIRTS


Join the sinister and clandestine chthonic cult and "PRAISE KUTULU" today!
http://www.heavymetalonline.co.uk/acatalog/BAL_SAGOTH.html


 


And worship at the "CHURCH OF THE MALEFIC AVATAR"!
http://www.plastichead.com/catalogue.asp?ex=backlist&category=merch&target=BAL+SAGOTH




 






Posted May 25th, 2009:

RETURN FROM PORTUGAL

Thanks to everyone who attended our shows in Lisbon and Porto. It was great to finally play in Portugal, and to meet our dedicated supporters over there. News on further BAL-SAGOTH live shows will be posted soon.



Promoters: To book BAL-SAGOTH for your event, send a message to this MySpace page with details of your proposal.
 
 

 
 
March 31st, 2009:

METAL PORTAL: X COMMANDMENTS

Check out Metal Portal's X Commandments column, now featuring the top ten albums as chosen by Byron Roberts:
http://www.metal-portal.net/x-commandments/189/bal-sagoth/1/
 



 
OFFICIAL WEBSITE REVAMP IMMINENT!

The Official Bal-Sagoth Website will shortly be revamped with a fresh new look and some exciting new features. Keep checking www.bal-sagoth.com and www.bal-sagoth.co.uk for details!
 
 


 
OTHER DESTINATIONS OF INTEREST


Visit the following Official Bal-Sagoth pages on the internet:
Become a fan of Bal-Sagoth on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bal-Sagoth/8681264269 
Watch Bal-Sagoth videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/DarthScourge1138 
Visit the Bal-Sagoth page on Bebo: www.bebo.com/officialbalsagoth
Follow Bal-Sagoth on Twitter: www.twitter.com/bal_sagoth
Listen to Bal-Sagoth on Last FM: http://www.last.fm/music/Bal-Sagoth
Bal-Sagoth Reverbnation page: http://www.reverbnation.com/balsagoth
Bal-Sagoth MySpace page: www.myspace.com/balsagoth
Bal-Sagoth Trig page: http://www.trig.com/bal-sagoth
Bal-Sagoth Purevolume page: http://www.purevolume.com/BalSagoth67785
Bal-Sagoth Buzznet page: www.balsagoth.buzznet.com
Bal-Sagoth iSound page: http://www.isound.com/bal_sagoth_gb
Bal-Sagoth iLike page: http://www.ilike.com/artist/Bal-Sagoth
Bal-Sagoth Dailymotion channel: http://www.dailymotion.com/Bal-Sagoth-Official
Bal-Sagoth Magma page: http://mag.ma/Bal-Sagoth
Bal-Sagoth Mevio page: http://www.bal-sagoth.mevio.com
Official Bal-Sagoth website: www.bal-sagoth.com and www.bal-sagoth.co.uk
Site for news on Byron's forthcoming comics and short stories: www.byron-a-roberts.co.uk and www.bal-sagoth.net

 
 
 

 
 

HIGH PRAISE FOR "THE CHTHONIC CHRONICLES"
Some highlights from the UK metal press reviews of the sixth BAL-SAGOTH album.


"With this release Bal-Sagoth, one of the most original and intriguing, yet also criminally overlooked and often completely misunderstood musical acts around, present the sixth installment of their epic dark fantasy saga... Byron's fanatical dedication and epic novelistic lyrical approach, coupled with the musical genius of the Maudling brothers, means their legacy is one that is extremely unlikely to ever be matched or bettered."

ZERO TOLERANCE UK (5.5 out of 6, RELEASE OF THE ISSUE)


"Bal-Sagoth's ability to create a majestic and ethereal atmosphere is once again impeccable. The perfect example of this is on "Six Score And Ten Oblations To A Malefic Avatar" with its dreamlike riff coupled with vocalist Byron's imaginative occult-driven dialogue that escalates into a euphoric and perfectly balanced mixture of synth-phonic instrumentation and virtuoso-styled riffs... An immensely visual and affective release."

TERRORIZER UK (9.5 out of 10, ALBUM OF THE MONTH)


"The glossy extravagance of songs like "Six Score And Ten Oblations To A Malefic Avatar" (as ever, Bal-Sagoth give great title) perfectly suits the band's grandiloquent conceptual ambitions. This is insanely epic and cinematic stuff, rendered in vivid sonic hues."

KERRANG UK (4 out of 5)

 
"Bal-Sagoth are perhaps the only one of these saga-spinning sword wielding acts who can actually grip you with their narrative. Byron doesn't so much sing as declaim in the manner of the ancient bards of High Atlantis (whose work I'm sure you're all familiar with). They straddle... metal and what sounds like 50's Hollywood epic music- great stirring orchestral swathes that usually accompany a Charlton Heston death scene. Great titles too, like "Shackled To The Trilithon Of Kutulu" and "Unfettering The Hoary Sentinels Of Karnak", make Manowar sound like Green Day."

METAL HAMMER UK (8 out of 10)


"We're talking about Bal-Sagoth here, the UK's premiere battle metallers. I bet they have some great titles then? You bet ya! Check out "Unfettering The Hoary Sentinels Of Karnak", "To Storm The Cyclopean Gates Of Byzantium" and "Six Score And Ten Oblations To A Malefic Avatar". Puts Lord of the Rings to shame!
...Vocalist Byron Roberts narrates through some of the most Lovecraftian sounding stories since, well, the last time you read Lovecraft. This album is consistently challenging, engaging and interesting..."

ROCKSOUND UK

 
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New BAL-SAGOTH T-shirts are available now!



From Plastic Head Merchandising comes the exclusive "CHURCH OF THE MALEFIC AVATAR" shirt, available from http://www.plastichead.com/catalogue.asp?ex=backlist&category=merch&target=BAL+SAGOTH


 





And from Razamataz comes the classic "VIPER'S NEST" design and the exclusive new "PRAISE KUTULU" shirt! Available from http://www.heavymetalonline.co.uk/acatalog/BAL_SAGOTH.html


 


 

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Your questions about BAL-SAGOTH answered. Sometimes, even sensibly.
 (Submit your own questions by simply sending a message to this MySpace page.)
 

1) Where does the name "Bal-Sagoth" come from? What does it mean?

BYRON: I took the name "BAL-SAGOTH" from a story which was written by my favourite author; the incomparable pulp fantasy master Robert E. Howard. The story was called "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" and was first published in the celebrated pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1931. The name "Bal-Sagoth" had always appealed to and fascinated me ever since I first read the story many, many years ago, and I always intended to use that name for this grand metal project, as it seemed to mirror the concept and thematic essence which I envisioned for the band perfectly. That's basically why I called the band BAL-SAGOTH. Anyone wishing to learn more should check out the story, which has been reprinted in many REH anthology editions over the years.

 
2) Will there be any more Bal-Sagoth albums?

BYRON: To be quite honest, the question of subsequent albums is something that has not yet been decided. Obviously all the core members of the band would have to agree to proceed with any further albums, and the reasons for proceeding would have to be right.
Several of the band members at present are leaning towards making another album, but the important thing to point out is that many factors would have to be sorted out and correct before we were to commit ourselves to such a time consuming and gruelling endeavour.
Specifically, there would have to be a really good record deal in place. A licensing deal which was truly beneficial to the band, and made all the hard work worthwhile. A great distribution and publishing agreement would also have to be sorted out. Formal agreements between the various band members would also have to be finalized. In short, everything would have to be done thoroughly and properly. Record sales are currently at an all time low, as the "something for nothing" culture proliferates. To put it bluntly, subsequent albums may well not be financially viable, either for the band or for a record company. We'd never take the self-releasing route, as that would be a retrograde step, and would cheapen the legend of Bal-Sagoth, which of course is something I'm sure the fans would not want.
And of course merely releasing another album simply for the sake of it would clearly not be the right approach. Just because we can, does not necessarily mean we should. The reasons for continuing the legend would have to be right, and compelling, and the material would have to be phenomenal. There would simply be no point releasing another album unless it was by far the best material that the band had ever produced. And that, is a fact.
That's not to say there's any shortage of inspiration. Far from it. I have many ideas for theoretical future releases. But I'm afraid the question of whether or not we'll continue making albums is one which people will have to wait to be answered. Perhaps the legacy is complete, sacrosanct, and should remain untainted.
Having said all that... I'm currently considering the possibility of a cataclysmic seventh chapter to coincide with the momentous Mayan date of December 2012...
 

3) I guess you guys sell lots of albums and make lots of money from Bal-Sagoth, right?

BYRON: Hahahahahahah! What? You were being serious? Oh, sorry. No, we don't sell countless thousands of albums, and we don't make any real money from this. We never have. This is simply too much of a niche market to be truly financially successful. And that's the way it should be. Bal-Sagoth was always intended to be an obscure and underground kind of band anyway, so I've always been happy with our "minority appeal" status. We never really sought to make money from this hobby, but by the same token, we don't want to lose money either. On a day to day basis, I'm in contact with a lot of bands, record companies and promoters. And the message from all is the same. Record sales are down across the board. Gig attendances are dropping. The music industry is in a state of flux, and must adapt to survive. Like I said before, the twenty first century's "something for nothing" culture proliferates. It's a culture where people want their music, their movies and their games for free. And that's something which will cripple the entertainment industry in the long run. If bands don't make any money from their albums, they'll be forced to stop making them. Even legal downloads through valid channels pale into insignificance next to the vast plague of illegal downloading, file sharing, and the like. All this might not affect the big bands in any truly noticable capacity, but when you're a niche band which sells very few albums anyway, the consequences of piracy and buyer apathy can be devastating. Of course, all this isn't really a new thing, but the scale of it is. In the old days, people bought an LP, and then maybe made a cassette copy for their friends, and then swapped it via the old tape trading network. But these days, with the rise of digital technology and the internet, a song and an album can be copied and shared throughout the world in a matter of seconds, and rather than getting a poor quality third generation analogue copy, you can have a pristine digital copy of crystal clarity delivered to your hard drive in the blink of an eye. You can even print out the album cover, burn the album onto a CDR, and at the click of a mouse button, print a label for the disc, too. All instead of buying the album. So no, we never sold multitudes of albums in the old days, and we sure aren't doing so now.

 
4) Why doesn't Bal-Sagoth play many gigs?

BYRON: It is very difficult to recreate this material accurately in the live environment. The music of Bal-Sagoth is so multi-layered, multi-faceted and intricate that there is really no way in which we can genuinely translate the songs live to a truly satisfactory extent. Additionally, I have always felt that when a band plays live, some of the magic and the mystique which is contained on an album is generally lost. No matter how good the show is, the very act of playing live demystifies the band and brings them back down to a mundane and earthly level, such are the limitations of the technology and the very medium itself. To truly do justice to the Bal-Sagoth songs, we would require a gigantic stage presentation, including multiple pyrotechnics, lasers, snow and fog machines, a cast of extras, several keyboard players, and ideally a live orchestra. Perhaps one day the funds would become available to mount such an ambitious presentation, but realistically that is highly unlikely. Every show we do, we basically play for the die hard Bal-Sagoth fans who love the material. We just get up there on stage and try to play the songs as close to the albums as possible, and if the crowd likes it, that's great.
 

5) Are you guys proud of being a sort of legendary "cult" band?

BYRON: Yes indeed, if we can be labeled as such. It has always been very important to me to retain the "underground" essence and mystique of Bal-Sagoth. I never intended this project to be a big, widely known band, and although our second trilogy of albums was released by a pretty big label (Nuclear Blast), I've always strived to maintain a good level of mysterious obscurity about our works! Bal-Sagoth was always intended to be a cult band, known only by a relatively small number of elite hardcore followers worldwide. I honestly don't believe that extreme metal should be embraced by the mainstream. In fact, it really vexes me that the band has become as "well known" as it has. For instance, playing Wacken was a move blatantly against the nature of Bal-Sagoth. That gig was way too big for this entity. Much of the mystery and mystique of the band has been inexorably pared away over the years, much to my chagrin. Thankfully, we're still obscure enough that nobody outside the boundaries of a certain musical sub-culture has really heard of us, and that's certainly how it must and will remain. Bal-Sagoth was never conceived to be a popular band; it was never intended to be embraced by anyone beyond a particular facet of the extreme metal community. If anyone in the band has any notions of becoming a metal star or appearing regularly on stage in front of countless thousands of people, then by all that's unholy, this isn't the band they should be in! Bal-Sagoth shall always remain firmly in the underground. Anything else would betray the principles upon which I built this project.
 

6) Doesn't it bug you guys that people dismiss fantasy or sci-fi metal bands as "cheesy" and "nerdy"?

BYRON: No, it doesn't bug us at all. Such casual dismissal of bands merely because their lyrical subject matter deals to a greater or lesser extent with escapist concepts merely demonstrates a narrow minded outlook and is often a symptom of limited intelligence. And yet these same people are quite happy to watch fantasy films, or play fantasy games for example. By their flawed reckoning, it's perfectly okay for them to indulge in fantasy when it's presented via the medium of film, computer games, or TV shows, but when it's presented via the medium of music it apparently suddenly becomes unacceptable and must be dismissed and derided. Such idiots wouldn't understand the intricacies of our art anyway, and should therefore certainly stick to listening to songs about fast cars, hot chicks, depressed angst-ridden teenagers and serial killers.
 

7) What do you guys call your style of music? Some people call it black metal, some people even call it power metal.

BYRON: Well I think it's certainly closer to black metal than anything else... although even that classification would not be wholly accurate.
I can honestly say that no member of the band is a fan of power metal, so I'm not sure where the idea of likening our style to power metal comes from. Certainly, when I originally came up with the idea for Bal-Sagoth, I always intended it to be a symphonic black/death metal band, pure and simple. The only kinds of metal I listen to are black and death metal. However, the other members of the band have somewhat more diverse and varied musical tastes, particularly Jonny who writes the majority of the music; and yet I think that such a degree of diversity all adds to our unique sound. Certainly we are all big admirers of epic film scores and classical music. If any categorization of our style is ultimately required, just think of us as something like baroque symphonic black/death occult-fantasy metal!
 

8) Are all the Bal-Sagoth lyrics/stories part of one overall saga? What about the graphic novels and short stories I've heard about?

BYRON: Yes, pretty much all the Bal-Sagoth lyrics are part of the same overall grand saga. The universe in which the lyrics take place spans countless millennia, from the beginning of time to the cataclysmic end of all creation. The lyrical world is roughly divided into three different eras; the "antediluvian" fantasy era, the "recorded history" period, and the "sci-fi" future era. All the stories which take place within this world and these periods are linked and all are part of the same overall chronology and canon. To learn more of the "antediluvian" era of the lyrics, check out my map of the Ancient World which is featured at the Official Bal-Sagoth Website (www.bal-sagoth.com, www.bal-sagoth.co.uk), and look out for the expanded and revised A-Z Glossary coming soon. The comic strips are progressing well. Martin Hanford is doing some truly excellent artwork for them, and some previews should be available to unveil before too long. The short stories (which will also be illustrated) will also be unveiled soon. As well as Martin Hanford, Samuel Santos will also be providing some great illustrations. I'm currently exploring publishing options and choices regarding what format in which to make these projects available.

 
9) So how did BAL-SAGOTH actually start?

BYRON: This question has been asked so many times over the years, so here's the definitive version for the archives! Here you will find out about the origin of both the concept and the band itself. I came up with the idea and concept for Bal-Sagoth many years ago (around 1989), and had tried unsuccessfully to start it up with a succession of different musicians. Unfortunately, it was the era of socially aware thrash metal, and nobody was at all interested in commiting to a fantasy oriented black/death metal project. I was determined to start the project however, and continued my attempts to find musicians who might be interested in the idea. Then, a guy I knew called Mac, who had played guitar in a prominent local thrash band called Systematic Insanity, asked me if I wanted to jam with some guys he'd met. They were only playing Metallica and Napalm Death covers in their bedroom (in an old manor house which had once been a lunatic asylum), but they were interested in starting a serious band. So, I went and met the Maudling brothers Jonny and Chris (Jonny Maudling had previously been in a thrash band called Igniter, playing the regional pubs and clubs) and also Jason Porter, and we jammed some stuff. Unfortunately however, I really wasn't interested in playing the kind of material that they were into, so I figured it just wasn't going to work out. Jonny and Chris weren't at all familiar with black metal, and also Mac didn't like the Bal-Sagoth concept. Mac wanted to do a sort of thrash/death metal band with contemporary socio-political lyrical topics. He was also, at that time, somewhat horrified at the suggestion of a metal band with full keyboards. I figured I might as well keep jamming with Mac until I found someone else with which to start Bal-Sagoth, so we called the non-serious bedroom outfit "Dusk" and continued to spend Sunday afternoons making a horrific noise. Well, this went on for a few months, but absolutely nothing came of it. I wasn't happy that I couldn't implement the Bal-Sagoth concept fully, and Jonny and Chris also confided in me that they too weren't happy with the kind of material which we were playing as Dusk. Then, for a variety of reasons, we parted company with Mac (but ironically, Mac would later re-join us on bass). At that point, I explained to Jonny and Chris in detail the kind of music I wanted to do, and gave them a rundown of the Bal-Sagoth concept, saying that keyboards would ideally play a prominent role in such a band. Back then, I kept all the lyrics, logos, and ideas in a large black folder, which I showed them to give them a firm idea of the whole concept behind the band. They thought it was all pretty weird, but Jonny, who was a trained pianist, was very intrigued by the idea of keyboards, and when I showed them material by black metal bands such as Emperor, they were sold. And so, Bal-Sagoth was formally implemented during the summer of 1993. We still had Jason on bass guitar, and for keyboards we recruited Vincent, and we began crafting the music which would ultimately end up on our demo and later on the debut album. And that's how the band started.
 

10) How do the band write the songs? What's the process?

BYRON:  I call the process the "synergy" method, as that's the best way to describe it. The lyrics are always written well in advance of the music being composed. However, the other members don't get to see the actual lyrics until well after the fact. It's always a surprise to them to actually find out what the lyrics are. Instead, I always prepare a general conceptual synopsis concerning the narrative outline of the album which I then give to Jonny as a reference. This synopsis includes information on which stories will be included on the album, what the required themes and moods should be, the general emotional essence a piece should convey, etc. Sometimes the details I give him are very sketchy, which Jonny often prefers so as to not overtly colour his music writing, while other times the synopsis is quite detailed. An example of the synopsis being followed well is the song "The Fallen Kingdoms of the Abyssal Plain", for which I told Jonny that I needed a piece which conveyed the feeling of a journey to the bottom of the ocean, down through the various levels of the marine depths, to the very sea floor where we would see the ruins of ancient non-human underwater cities. I was very pleased with how well that one reflected the synopsis. In the case of epic centrepiece songs such as the second chapter in the Obsidian Crown saga or the Hyperborean Empire cycle, the synopsis will include much greater information, such as a broad outline of the events in the actual story, the key occurrences, what kind of music is required for a certain event, etc. We find this method generally works best. More often, than not, after countless agonizing hours hunched over the keyboard, Jonny will just write something completely unconnected to any outline and present that to me, too. This is often how it works, but it varies. The process of refining and perfecting a composition then proceeds over a period of weeks and months, with any number of different versions of a song exchanged as MP3s, until everything ultimately comes together in the recording studio. And that's the Bal-Sagoth way of writing songs.
 
 
11) What happened with the tracks on the Wacken 2004 live CD & DVD? It seems to be out of synch!

BYRON: I still get asked this occasionally, even four years after the event. Yes, the BAL-SAGOTH track "The Empyreal Lexicon" featured on the "Armageddon Over Wacken 2004" live CD and DVD evidently suffered from a serious audial misalignment during the process of mastering the track for CD. The unaltered source footage of the gig shows that the track was played correctly during the original set, so the error on the final release was presumably perpetrated by the sound technicians during post-production, resulting in the guitar track falling severely out of synchronization after approximately 00:37. I think a similar thing happened with "Atlantis Ascendant" on the DVD, too. Armageddon Music, the company responsible for the release, declined to comment and failed to offer any kind of explanation. BAL-SAGOTH purists will also be appalled to note that the track title on the CD album packaging has been spelled incorrectly, and also that the band name has been spelled without the hyphen. And finally, another serious example of gross negligence and sickening ineptitude is that even the songwriting/credit information relating to one of the tracks in the CD and DVD booklet is entirely and quite inexcusably incorrect! That really just shows the level of staggering fuckwittery involved here. Therefore, for all the above mentioned reasons, BAL-SAGOTH will neither endorse nor recommend this release. The entire affair was perpetrated without the band's knowledge or approval, and Nuclear Blast must also be held partially responsible, as they presumably (evidently carelessly) sanctioned the whole debacle. This is just one example of the kind of nonsensical lunacy that makes me hold the fucking music industry in such utter contempt. Avoid at all costs.
 

12) Why don't the Bal-Sagoth keyboards sound the same live as they do on albums? Would you like to work with a real orchestra?

BYRON: We get asked this a lot. You have to remember that in the studio we have total freedom to take advantage of the full range of digital symphonic wizardry that's available, creating truly orchestral multi-layered keyboards. In the live environment, it's a different story. To accurately recreate the symphonic splendour of the keyboards live would take several keyboard players, perhaps even octopoidal ones at that. We use just one, and although the keyboards we use are very sophisticated, we'll never be able to translate the multi-faceted nature of the synths 100% accurately during gigs. When we play live, we just try to play things as close as we can to the albums (and that goes for ALL the Bal-Sagoth members/instruments), sometimes rather successfully, sometimes less so.
As for the live orchestra, that's something we'd very much like to do. We are uniquely suited to such a venture too, because our keyboards are actually written and "scored" in a truly orchestral way, with each constituent instrument (brass, woodwind, strings, timpani, etc.) prepared and recorded separately. However, money is the big obstacle here, and it's unlikely we'll ever get a chance to realize such a grand ambition.

 
13) What's the situation with Rock Bottom/Raven Black merchandise? They are selling Bal-Sagoth shirts!

BYRON: I haven't heard from the owner of that company for a long time, and they still owe us money. We had a deal with them for a while, but unfortunately nobody from the company is answering emails or telephone calls regarding the matter. I'm not sure if they are still offering BAL-SAGOTH shirts for sale, but if they are we would have to advise that fans DO NOT buy any BAL-SAGOTH merchandise from Raven Black, as it is NOT official or sanctioned by the band in any way. The only official BAL-SAGOTH merchandise is available exclusively from Razamataz.
 

14) What's the story with your old 1993 demo? Did you ever release it?

BYRON: We never officially released the demo because we never really completed work on it. There were a few things that we never finished, but it was a self financed project and unfortunately we ran out of money. Nevertheless, I sent the recordings to a few record labels, and also made them available to anyone who wanted to send me a blank tape and return postage. I added an intro to the demo, which was actually taken from the movie "Masters of the Universe", and also embellished it with some sound effects from an old BBC Radiophonic Workshop "Death & Horror" tape. Luckily, Cacophonous were suitably impressed by the essence of the songs and offered to sign us. Initially they wanted to release the demo as a 7" EP, but rather than spend money to finish it, we decided to just go straight ahead and record a full album, which was of course "A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria". A few years ago, we remastered the demo songs, and one day soon we intend to complete work on them and release the demo as a CD with various extra features.
Additionally, two of the demo songs were included as bonus tracks on the Japanese release of our fifth album "Atlantis Ascendant".

 
15) Are the six Bal-Sagoth albums still available?

BYRON: Yes, all six chapters in the Bal-Sagoth hexalogy are still available. Some people have had difficulty finding certain albums in stores, particularly the earlier albums, but if you ask a shop to order them there's no valid reason why they shouldn't be able to get hold of them for you. There are also sub-licensed editions of the albums available in various countries. The six Bal-Sagoth albums and their catalogue numbers are as follows:
I) A BLACK MOON BROODS OVER LEMURIA
(Released: 1995, Cacophonous, NIHIL 4 CD)
II) STARFIRE BURNING UPON THE ICE-VEILED THRONE OF ULTIMA THULE
(Released: 1996, Cacophonous, NIHIL 18 CD)
III) BATTLE MAGIC
(Released: 1998, Cacophonous, NIHIL 29 CD)
IV) THE POWER COSMIC
(Released: 1999, Nuclear Blast, NB 421-2, IROND CD 03-411)
V) ATLANTIS ASCENDANT
(Released: 2001, Nuclear Blast, NB 584-2)
VI) THE CHTHONIC CHRONICLES
(Released: 2006, Nuclear Blast, NB 1048-2)
 
 
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