The Power Cosmic

The Power Cosmic is the fourth album by the English metal band Bal-Sagoth, released in 1999. The album was their first recording for Nuclear Blast. It was the first Bal-Sagoth album to not contain a full lyric booklet. A lyric booklet was initially featured as downloadable content on the band's website; it was later released with the Russian sub-licensed edition of the album, and subsequently with the album's digipack reissue in November 2011. The album also marks a personnel change, as the trio became a quintet: Mark Greenwell joined on bass, which freed up Chris Maulding to focus on guitars, while Dave Mackintosh would handle drums, thus enabling Johnny Maulding to concentrate on keyboards and synthesizers. The album focuses on Zurra, a rogue demigod released from his imprisonment beneath the Mare Imbrium who searches space to reassemble the powerful artifact known as the Empyreal Lexicon. The song "Of Carnage and a Gathering of the Wolves" takes place in Darkenhold forest, a location last referenced in track 9 of the album Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pow...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)