At the end of the project\u2019s 20th anniversary celebrations, ROME tolls in the next era of the band with two fresh and visionary albums: \u2018The Tower\u2019 and \u2018The Hierophant\u2019.<\/p>\n
Whatever the great poets have affirmed in their finest moments is the nearest we can come to an authoritative religion or truth. It is in this spirit that ROME welcomes the listener into the temple of \u2018The Hierophant\u2019, ROME\u2019s final album of its second decade of existence.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Hierophant\u2019 represents the enigmatic accompanying piece to the more introspective and seclusive recent work (of \u2018The Tower\u2019). Starting its journey during these \u2018Days of Assembly\u2019, from the opening \u2018Secret Harbour\u2019 along \u2018On Sorrow’s Embankment\u2019 to its logical finale in the mythical North with \u2018Apollo of Hyperborea\u2019; \u2018The Hierophant\u2019 is a spiritual travelogue seeking out the word and world of this \u2018My Frail Ambassador\u2019, the proclaimer of the sacred truce, interpreter of the ancestral laws and our guiding light through these darkened times. Through a magical web looped from atmospheric guitar work, Reuter looks beyond the world’s grim realities as \u2018The Harvest Is Not Here\u2019. The songs are both enigmatic and touching, a strange sacrament, elusive and half-hidden, like the gospel of a soft cult.<\/p>\n
Musically, the radically reduced folk of earlier work is still very much present, though different in calibre. \u2018The Hierophant\u2019 proclaims its truths not from a place of solitude and remote resistance, but from the threshold of the beyond. Sprinkled with sparse percussion and dream-like string sections, the album invites the listener to participate in an aural rite of passage, invoking echoes of forgotten rituals and the tremors of inner transformation. Reuter\u2019s guitar work and lyrical strength is particularly strong on this release. Each track unfolds like a veiled scripture, it is a collection of layered sonic devotion adorned with symbols and spells, demanding attentive and repeated listening.<\/p>\n
ROME\u2019s dual release of \u2018The Tower\u2019 and \u2018The Hierophant\u2019 is a twin engine of magical splendour. Not to be missed.<\/p>\n
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