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2CD book edition (hardcover, 18x18cm, 36 pages), enhanced artwork, includes exclusive bonus companion album. Only a very few original metal acts emerge each decade from the mass of bands that are stylistically easy to tag. BOTANIST are both in musical and lyrical aspects one of those unique bands that are obviously different. Now, the act's eleventh full-length, InchVIII SelenotropeInch is announced. On the eighth solo album by the project, and the first since InchVI FloraInch (2014), mastermind Otrebor again sends sprigs into new sonic directions. Although the band's roots in black metal still shimmer through the dense foliage, this sprawling, straggling, blooming creation is an exuberantly growing, varied musical meditation. InchThe title InchVIII SelenotropeInch refers to plants that flower in moonlight. BOTANIST's characteristic sound of the hammered dulcimer combines perfectly with now predominantly clean vocals that are often arranged into multi-layered choirs, resulting in an entangling, highly dynamic album that comes together in a singular piece of music seemingly taking influence from all avant-garde, progressive, experimental, post-metal, and other possible descriptions - the validity of which very much depends on each individual listener. InchVIII SelenotropeInch is not made to fit into just one drawer.Inch All songs of this project are told from the perspective of a protagonist called InchThe BotanistInch. He is characterised as a crazed man of science that lives in self-imposed exile, as far away from Humanity and it's crimes against Nature as possible. In his sanctuary of fantasy and wonder, which he calls InchThe Verdant RealmInch, InchThe BotanistInch surrounds himself with plants and flowers to find solace in the company of the natural world, while he envisions the destruction of mankind. Seated upon his throne of Veltheimia, InchThe BotanistInch
