Phlegethon, by CULTRO

Phlegethon

by CULTRO

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The new album comes in a digisleeve format ,2 panels , holding a 6 pages booklet with lyrics and credits and a cardboard sleeve for the CD. It contains the full 5 tracks album.

Includes unlimited streaming of Phlegethon via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Golem 12:16	lyrics	buy track
Bleeding off clay The aleph's set away Laid is the veil weaved from dull flesh over the seed of this fruitless tree Sealing your heavens burying you inside bury all but your eye forced to the sight of the towers of your pride burning in the distance
2.	Medusa 08:36	lyrics	buy track
Petrified all your scorn darkly awaits pledge of stone in my eyes you're stillborn
3.	Phlegethon 02:32	info	buy track
4.	Atlas (ft. Lycia) 07:12	lyrics	buy track
Carry along your burden of stone As a throne the world sits on your bones
5.	Banished 08:58	lyrics	buy track
Let the ground Drink its blood That's the gift You longed for

about

"PHLEGETHON" sums up all the band's previous experiences in a 5 track concept album based on the theme of "sentence/condemnation" and "punishment", from which every one track gets its title.

First is "Golem" , where the creature spawned from human vanity escapes the control of its master, and upon which is inflicted a sentence of death that, in turn, is transformed into the master's own death. The condemned is transfigured into the condamnation, the doomed into the impending doom.

Second is "Medusa", the ever representing Evil and Ugliness figure.
But if "the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder", maybe the evilness and ugliness too.
Is the petrifying power lying in the eyes of the Medusa, or in the reflection they are sending back of theone who's staring?

The title track, the third one, is "Phlegethon", an acoustic interlude depicting the view of the last river in the deepest of Dante's hell. A calm stream of forever boiling fire.

The fourth track is "Atlas", where we find the quintessential figure of the "doomed one": condemned to bring on his shoulders the whole celestial sphere, that is the weight of its own existence. His liberation can only happen through the negation of himself, making of him either a slave or inexistent.
The track sees the featuring of Mike Van Portfleet e Tara Vanflower from the band LYCIA on vocals.

The fifth and last track is titled "Banished", referring to the idea of "sacrifice": not the Abel's one, but the one of Cain, dominated by the will of satisfying a bloodthirsty and hypocrite god. The earth creates the man, the man creates the god, god creates the man: the man IS god.

credits

released December 13, 2021

Cultro are:
Alessandro Nanna - Bass, Vocals
Marco Riccardi - Guitar, Synth, Saz, Drum programming

All music written & performed by Cultro
Except for "Atlas" performed by Cultro & Mike Vanportfleet and Tara Vanflower on vocals.
Recorded, Mixed @ JupiterGiant Studio in Rome (March/June 2021) by Marco Riccardi

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CULTRO Rome, Italy

CULTRO is a post metal band, based in Rome (Italy), formed during winter of 2014.

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discography

Nerthus

Mar 2023
Phlegethon

Dec 2021
Horizon

Oct 2017
CULTRO EP 2015

Nov 2015

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