Description
Solar Temple was started in 2016 and started as a psychedelic black metal project,and has since evolved to cover genres such as psychedelic rock, krautrock, drone, ambient and now electronic soundtrack music. Consisting of core duo O. Iskandr (Dool, Iskandr, Turia and Galg among others) and M. Koops (Fluisteraars, Nusquama and Galg among others) the project has always had the aim to create original and experimental pieces of music. Solar Temple's new album "A Gift That Should Have Been Reserved for the Great Lights" forms the soundtrack to an imaginary film following the story ancient cosmonauts: Planet Earth once hosted a great civilization that has since vanished, leaving only subtle traces for those able to see. The people of this ancient world were keen observers of the cosmos and able to manipulate space-time to propel psychic rafts and travel through the solar system collecting raw materials. Eventually an awareness developed of the massive black hole in the middle of our galaxy, whose circling clockwork that slowly draws in all matter became a fixture of a great societal religious cult. The high priests of primordial earth commissioned an expedition to travel to the inner sanctum of this gaping maw of antilight. A huge ceremony celebrated the launch of this expeditionary raft. After passing the multiple gravitational orbits of the earth and the planets, the vessel drifted through outer space to eventually get pulled into thehole. The collective consciousness of the travellers deconstructed and reconstituted as gods in a higher plane, whose deep historical memory was passed down unto ancient man in the form of the great religions of this world.
