{"product_id":"the-hierophant","title":"The Hierophant","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the project’s 20th anniversary celebrations, Rome tolls in the next era of the band with two fresh and visionary albums: \u003cem\u003eThe Hierophant\u003c\/em\u003e and ‘The Tower’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhatever the great poets have affirmed in their finest moments is the nearest we can come to an authoritative religion or truth. It is in this spirit that Rome welcomes the listener into the temple of \u003cem\u003eThe Hierophant\u003c\/em\u003e, Rome’s final album of its second decade of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hierophant\u003c\/em\u003e represents the enigmatic accompanying piece to the more introspective and seclusive recent work (of \u003cem\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/em\u003e). Starting its journey during ‘Days of Assembly’, from the opening ‘Secret Harbour’ along ‘On Sorrow's Embankment’ to its logical finale in the mythical North with ‘Apollo of Hyperborea’, \u003cem\u003eThe Hierophant\u003c\/em\u003e is a spiritual travelogue seeking out the word and world of this ‘My Frail Ambassador’, the proclaimer of the sacred truce, interpreter of the ancestral laws and our guiding light through these darkened times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a magical web looped from atmospheric guitar work, Rome founder Jérôme Reuter looks beyond the world’s grim realities as ‘The Harvest Is Not Here’. The songs are both enigmatic and touching, a strange sacrament, elusive and half-hidden, like the gospel of a soft cult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusically, the radically reduced folk of earlier work is still very much present, though different in calibre. \u003cem\u003eThe Hierophant\u003c\/em\u003e proclaims its truths not from a place of solitude and remote resistance, but from the threshold of the beyond. Sprinkled with sparse percussion and dream-like string sections, the album invites the listener to participate in an aural rite of passage, invoking echoes of forgotten rituals and the tremors of inner transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReuter’s guitar work and lyrical strength is particularly strong on this release. Each track unfolds like a veiled scripture, it is a collection of layered sonic devotion adorned with symbols and spells, demanding attentive and repeated listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRome's dual release of \u003cem\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hierophant\u003c\/em\u003e is a twin engine of magical splendour. Not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLP presented on black high quality, super-audiophile 180g vinyl in reverse board printed cover with printed inner sleeve made from special untreated paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trisol Music Group","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":55953290199371,"sku":"R7220-3845","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":55953290232139,"sku":"R7220-9310","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_21ea7487-c7c2-4d6c-930f-fa7acaeee459.jpg?v=1763746015","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/the-hierophant","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}