After releasing their first two cassette productions, The Soil Bleeds Black

The Soil Bleeds Black

The Soil Bleeds Black is a pagan Neo-Medieval band from Ashburn, Virginia.-History:The Soil Bleeds Black was conceived in the year 1992 as a project that focused on the experimental visions of twin brothers, Mark and Michael Riddick...

 published their debut album, The Kingdom & Its Fey. The album contains the band's first two cassettes, originally released through Dark Age Productions, along with several other tracks. A declaration of the band's past is evidenced in the heavy use of synthetic instrumentation while the atmosphere of bygone eras remains expressed. The LP edition of this album features five bonus tracks and is presented in a gatefold sleeve with additional separate sleeves that meet together to form a pictorial diorama

Diorama

The word diorama can either refer to a nineteenth century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum...

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Track listing

1. "Odde Feormie"
2. "Bite Irena, Wide Feran"
3. "The Village Courtyard"
4. "Annwyfn"
5. "At that Fiery Pond"
6. "Burh Stede Beat"
7. "Behold thou My Crest"
8. "To thy Queen"
9. "Atop Mount Snowdon"
10. "Fig & Jig in the Miller's Tavern"
11. "The Charm of Making"
12. "Ecce, Victoria"
13. "Redivivus 'Ole Norwich, the Triumph of Horamane"
14. "Dragone Arte"
15. "Dance O' Lord & Lady"
16. "He Shall be King"
17. "A Hymn to Dechtire"
18. "Because the World is so Untrue, I go my way so Full of Rue"
19. "Adieu, and Off to Battle"
20. "The Stolen Princess Sleeps"
21. "Summoning the Dragons of Wyth"
22. "The Greenest Hilltop"
23. "Distillation of Lady Luna in the Vessel"
24. "Homonuculus"
25. "They Take their Own Path Home"

    Bonus tracks

26. "Under the Willow"
27. "The Goblin Grove"
28. "I Am an Ancient Emerald Forest"
29. "Bloeddwydd"
30. "BattleRam!"

Guest musicians

• Ann Mahoney - Vocals on "Under the Willow"