Codex Serafini to Release The Imprecation of Anima June 23
Look, usually in this part of the post I like to try to give some impression of what the album holds or what’s going on with the band generally, but Codex Serafini are too weird for the usual rules to apply. I don’t know what’s gonna happen with The Imprecation of Anima, their debut album to be issued June 23 through Riot Season Records, but if you caught wind of their EPs or any of their live stuff or the videos that have been premiered here (one and two to-date) you probably already have some sense of the oddball take on kosmiche heavy that they offer. Does that mean The Imprecation of Anima will follow the same makes-jazz-of-everything ethic as their work to this point? Hell if I know. That’s why it’s fun!
In February, the red-robed English troupe released God’s Spit, a live record that took tracks from their two EPs, 2021’s Invisible Landscape (review here) and 2020’s Serpents of Enceladus. I don’t know if maybe the full-length will repurpose some of those songs as well or not, but the PR wire heralds below a song that’s either longer than anything on the EPs or longer than the EPs themselves, I’m not entirely sure which. The more the merrier, in any case. Mischief will abound.
Dig:
CODEX SERAFINI – The Imprecation Of Anima
Out on Riot Season Records Ltd Edition Vinyl on June 23rd
Their journey started a long time ago, some say on Saturn, some say in the subconscious of the human psyche, coming out in different manners through the ages, channeled by mystics, witch doctors, shamans, free thinkers, free spirits. But we do know that what has become Codex Serafini travelled here from their home world on Enceladus in 2019 and crash landed into the music scene of Sussex. Invoking many styles of psychedelic rock from the recent human musical history to open the minds of their human audience to the other world, and higher plane.
After releasing two EPs Serpents of Enceladus in 2020 and Invisible Landscape in 2021 Codex Serafini embarked on their most immersive journey so far creating what would become ‘The Imprecation Of Anima’ an exploration of the self, the duality of the human existence. The album is heavy, much heavier than their previous output and the longest song Animus in Decay is longer than either of the bands previous EPs. It snakes and weaves an epic motif through the wilderness of the sometimes barren lands of the unconsciousness, focusing the mind with it’s almost heavy metal mantra and using this to open up the third eye to the realisation of our mortal existence. The whole album is a pilgrimage into ones inner self and it’s relationship with it’s own shadow in it’s truest form, two parts coming together as a whole.
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Just to let you know, the embedded photo comment made me
laugh a ton. Tears and everything.
Toesies!!!!
Then you read it in exactly the right voice. I’m glad.