Kings Must Die, by Pantheïst

Kings Must Die

by Pantheïst

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Funeral Fog Without hesitation, I am marking this to be the best EP of 2024.

Hannu Kujanen superb release from the kings of doooom!! Favorite track: Kings Must Die (featuring Jake Harding).

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Includes Kostas Panagiotou's solo album 'Tor' in professionally printed, glossy digipak with artwork by Cheryl Panagiotou.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Kings Must Die, Stardust (Bright Version), Live at Reaper 23, Tor, Fthagn-Nagh (Original Quake Map Soundtrack), Closer to God, When the Ashes Devoured the Sun, The Dragon's View, and 31 more. , and , .

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1.	Kings Must Die (featuring Jake Harding) 14:44	buy track
2.	1000 Years (Performed at Organic Doom Vol I) 02:51	buy track
3.	O Solitude (Performed at Organic Doom Vol I) 09:52	buy track
4.	Strange Times (Performed at Organic Doom Vol I) 22:04	buy track
5.	Pantheïst at Organic Doom Vol I (full performance) 34:47	buy track

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“Kings Must Die leans a bit more into classic UK doom with somber yet powerful singing and haunting keyboard and guitar work, and the live set showcases the best of the band’s earliest and most recent writing.”
(MetalTrenches.com)

“If Closer to God was almost the pinnacle of the band’s recorded output to date, then Kings Must Die is surely the dawn of another era for a band whose underground status belies their quality and class.”
(MetalTalk.net)

“Yet here too, the injection of the pipe organ based fragments works magisterially intriguing; almost ceremonial and ethereal in nature, hypnotic and lackadaisical in the innermost spirit…some moments are more intense and powerful, interweaving well with the calmer, sometimes even hypnagogic chapters.”
(concreteweb.be)

“The glorious harmonic sound is fully realised with everything joining in but then it quickly drops out again as the band play with shadows of light and dark. Nothing is rushed and there is plenty of grace here that is guaranteed to get you swaying when played live.”
(AveNoctum.com)

“The new track itself lyrically evokes a mix of the historical shenanigans of royal privilege and a challenge to the hereditary rights of succession, with the cover evoking Elizabeth I, but the use of samples from her funeral keeping it relevant to her more recently passed namesake in 2022.”
(Ever-Metal.com)

THE UNLIKELY MARRIAGE OF A DOOM METAL BAND WITH A LIVE PIPE ORGANIST

Since our ‘1000 years’ demo, pipe organ sounds have been central to the vibe of Pantheïst. I remember how back in 2001, in a letter correspondence with a German fan (yes, we are that old) he suggested that we should continue using ‘church organ sounds like the godfathers of funeral doom, Skepticism’.

This is exactly what we did in the years that followed, and pipe organs remained integral to the band’s sound, inspired by Skepticism as well as baroque composers such as J.S. Bach. 22 years later, we finally got the first opportunity to perform some of these tracks with an actual
pipe organ! It all started with a local drive to promote Huddersfield Town Hall’s pipe organ as a versatile instrument which can give depth and volume to many musical genres, of which doom metal is naturally one due to its slow tempo and emphasis on heaviness. Mark Deeks
from Northumbrian monastic doomsters Arð invited us as support to the event and the rest, as they say, is history.

Preparing for the gig was an interesting experience. To start with, I had to write scores of the pipe organ parts for the organist, something I’m not accustomed to. Then we rehearsed while ‘imagining’ the organ parts, as the organist David Pipe (what’s in a name…) was based
four hours away and naturally couldn’t join us for rehearsals.

The gig took place on a Monday evening- most unusual day for an event in a town not renowned for doom metal performances. We arrived Monday morning at Huddersfield Town Hall and were greeted by a loud buzzing sound of the monitoring system, with Mark Mynett (Professor at Huddersfield Uni, formerly of Kill II This and producer of the last two My Dying Bride albums) trying to tame the different aspects of such a massive enterprise: marrying up the electric sound of two doom metal bands with a pipe organ! Due to all the details that had to be taken care of as part of this monumental task, Pantheïst could only manage a 10-
minute soundcheck, which took place 10 minutes before the opening of the doors to 300 people, among which the legendary Arthur Brown (no pressure there…) We managed to practice half a track by that point, keeping in mind we still hadn’t heard all of the parts due
to be performed by the organist!

Kostas, November 2023
(Excerpt from the CD liner notes).

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released March 8, 2024

Track 1 recorded at various locations during the year 2023. Engineered and mixed by Jeremy Lewis. Mastered by Mark Mynett.
Drums recorded by Timothy Vincent at Longwave.
Atanas Kyurkchiev- guitar
Fanel Lefterache- drums
Jeremy Lewis- guitar
Kostas Panagiotou- brutal vocals, keyboards
Matthew Strangis- bass
Lead vocals performed by Jake Harding
Operatic vocals performed by Linda Dumitru.

Tracks 2-4 recorded at Huddersfield Town Hall in June 2023. Engineered, mixed and mastered by Mark Mynett.
Atanas Kyurkchiev- guitar
Fanel Lefterache- drums
Kostas Panagiotou- vocals, keyboards
Matthew Strangis- bass
Pipe organ performed live by David Pipe

CD Live photo captured by Abbie Jennings Photography

Cover Artwork by Cheryl Panagiotou. CD Visual Design by Francesco Gemelli.

(C) 2023 Melancholic Realm Productions

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