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PAGAN ALTAR “Lords of Hypocrisy” Pre-Orders OPEN NOW!!

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Welcome to year 2013, Cruz del Sur Music’s fans!! This year will be an incredible one in terms of our releases, and kicks off with the reissue of PAGAN ALTAR‘s classic 2004 lost album, dragged back out from the quicksands of time and served to you perfectly remastered and with a new booklet design (the band itself commented on their Facebook profile that it is “really pleased with the fine job Cruz del Sur Music has done… well done guys!”) complete with lyrics, original pictures provided by the band and a brief history on the making of the album taken from the band’s own “The End of the Enigma” biography.
The CD will hit the streets on January 18th 2013, and you can pre-order your copy NOW by clicking here:

“Very dark, melodic, catchy and also damn cranky, weird, but extremely whacked out. Weird, rare and absolutely brilliant.” METAL OBSERVER

“There’s still the odd sharper, hungrier NWOBHM-edged riff and shredding solo in here, but the seventies rock influences are more to the fore and merging directly with the doomier components.” DESTRUCTIVE MUSIC

Are you not convinced yet? Listen to a free streaming preview of the full album at our Bandcamp:

NPR Radio loves PHARAOH: Top 10 Heavy Metal Releases of Year 2012

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It is with a clear feeling of accomplishment that we are about to close off this hardworking year 2012 with a great new: PHARAOH’s “Bury the Light” album on Cruz del Sur Music has appeared in the 2012 Top Ten  Heavy Metal albums chart of NPR according to writer Lars Gotrich!! Check it out here.

This is what NPR had to say about Bury the Light:”Chris Black is one of metal’s most tireless musicians, typically working in the denim-shredded realm handed down by Iron Maiden and Jag Panzer. In 2012, the drummer and songwriter appeared on three albums that span the early spirit of metal: Superchrist‘s tallboy-downin’ Holy S—, Dawnbringer‘s heartfelt, but no less hair-raising concept album Into the Lair of the Sun God (Black’s baby, so to speak), and Pharaoh‘s Bury the Light. I loved all three for different reasons, but few records this year felt as epic as Bury the Light. Not “epic” in the way that metal journos typically overuse the word, but in the way that vocalist Tim Aymar might as well be wailing an epic poem handed down generations.” Read more “NPR Radio loves PHARAOH: Top 10 Heavy Metal Releases of Year 2012”

PAGAN ALTAR “The Lords of Hypocrisy” out soon on Cruz del Sur Music

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Cruz del Sur music is proud to present “The  Lords of Hypocrisy”: this is the band’s new studio album after many years of inactivity during which the band seemed destined to be put to sleep. Luckily instead, “The  Lords of Hypocrisy” is the result of the great feedback received by Pagan Altar during this stint in musical limbo, a new chapter in their unique sound.
After the release of the cd “Volume I” in 1998, the band was pushed by a consistent number of enthusiast fans to also release another album, supposed to follow their first work. The impossibility to resurrect the old-recorded tracks only conserved on old tapes spoiled by time forced the band to completely re-record the materials, although it was impossible to reunite the full original line-up for such an important task.
In year 2004, the band entered “Oracle Studios” – the modern heirs of the mighty “Pagan studios” – to lay down tracks for material that the band had written between ’78 and ’83… it really sounds so actual after many years of oblivion!
Delicate passages introduce a riff-driven marriage of vocal harmonies and lead-breaks able to take the listener through more reflective paths than other average musical attempts. Beside the usual dark themes, “The Lords of Hypocrisy” also contains the band’s personal point of view on society and religion, delivered with rich and strong themes abundantly interspersed within the tracks. In the band’s own words:

“Figures of Religion that preach to society, standing upright and tall / Screaming from the pulpit on Sunday morning / To save you from the fall/ Can you hear them? / Can you see them? Don’t believe them;  /don’t believe what they say!”

Pre-orders will be available starting in the first week of January, so come back and check for more information soon.