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The Osiris Club Releasing The Green Chapel; “Moscow” Video Posted

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Odd duck, this one. But no question that’s every bit on purpose. The impending third album from London-based heavy prog absconders The Osiris Club is called The Green Chapel and it’s set to release in varying formats between Aug. 20 (yes that already happened) and Nov. 12. Or at least it was listed as Aug. 20 on Bandcamp? I won’t claim to know. In any case, the band brings together drummer Andrew Prestidge (ex-The Oath, Lucifer, Angel Witch, etc.) with guitarists Roland Scriver (Serpent Venom, End of Level Boss) and Chris Fullard (also ex-Angel Witch), as well as two lead singers alternating, crazy diverse arrangements, flowing songwriting, wonderfully British themes and a general sense of making as well as inhabiting its own reality. I won’t claim to understand it, but hell’s bells it’s interesting.

Previously streaming was opener “Phantasm,” and there’s a new video for “Moscow” that you can see below. Info on the release came courtesy of the PR wire and Bandcamp and YouTube and wherever else I found it.

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The Osiris Club – The Green Chapel releases in November

No Profit Recordings and Bad Elephant Music are delighted to announce the dual label release of The Green Chapel, the long-awaited new album from UK-based Watership Doom psych-proggers The Osiris Club.

The album will be released on vinyl via No Profit Recordings on the 27th of September 2021. This will be followed by the release on CD and Digital via Bad Elephant Music on the 12th of November 2021.

The third album by the Osiris Club is a journey into the furthest reaches of psychedelia, prog, doom-folk and genres yet to be named. With the addition of acoustic guitars and Mellotron, the band’s trademark riffage has expanded to encompass influences from British folk horror, classic rock and progressive sounds from the 1960s to the present day.

Unsurprisingly, the ghosts of history lie heavy over this music. Inspired in part by medieval tales of headless knights, blind hares, wild hunts by moonlight and snow-choked English landscapes, the lyrics conjure a world of mysterious powers spilling into reality and ancient forces waiting to be unleashed. Invoking authors such as Arthur Machen and M.R. James, the musical content faithfully mirrors this magical summoning of energies both benign and infernal.

Decide which path you wish to take!

Originally conceived as an instrumental project fusing horror movie soundtracks with avant-metal, The Osiris Club has now morphed into a forbidding unit of musicians. Taking the best parts of 1970s progressive, 1980s post-punk and 1990s extreme rock, they have created a genuinely new sound, radical and uncompromising yet still melodic and accessible.

Watch the official music video for Moscow by The Osiris Club from the album The Green Chapel.

Inspired by Grigori Rusputin who passes on his supernatural abilities to Varvara Rasputina, ‘Moscow’ ties in with the themes of Myths, folklore and legends and Ghost stories and just like the bands name The Osiris Club it ties in with the whole Mike Mignola universe of comic books.

Tracklisting:
1. Phantasm
2. Moscow
3. The Inmost Light part 1
4. The Inmost Light part 2
5. Diamonds In The Wishing Well
6. Count Magnus
7. The Green Chapel I: The Green Chapel
8. The Green Chapel II: Blind Hare & The Pale Lady
9. The Green Chapel III: Winter’s End
10. The Green Chapel IV: My Lord The Sun
11. The Crow

Recorded at Holy Mountain Studios, Bethnal Green, in January 2020.
Engineered and mixed by Misha Hering.
Assistant Engineer – Stanley Collins Gravett.
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering.

Art direction and concept by Roland Scriver and Andrew Prestidge.
Sleeve designs by Roland Scriver at Familiar Ink.
Illustrations by Roland Scriver at Familiar Ink and Andrew Prestidge at Morlock Art.

The Osiris Club:
Sean Cooper – lead vocals (1, 2, 5, 6, 11), bass, synthesizers
Simon Oakes – lead vocals (3, 4, 7, 8 ,9, 10), cornet, synthesizers
Chris Fullard – guitars, FX
Roland Scriver – guitars, acoustic guitars
Andrew Prestidge – drums, percussion, guitar, synthesizers
Hanna Petterson – saxophone
Misha Hering – Oberheim 4 Voice

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The Osiris Club, “Moscow” official video

The Osiris Club, The Green Chapel (2021)

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