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Danu's Decline
Danu's Decline is a Single released by Ankoth that is available on BandCamp and SoundCloud, and will be made available on Streaming later on. The single consists of
two tracks - Incoming Doom, a slow, heavy instrumental track, and Danu's Decline, a fast thrash metal song with atmospheric and choral elements, as well as mellotron textures under the guitar, provided by the EHX Mel9 guitar pedal.
Multiple versions exist of this single - a demo version, on BandCamp and SoundCloud, which contains both tracks, raw straight from the Fostex 160 cassette multitrack recorder they were recorded on, with just some analogue EQ.
There is also Shadow's own mix of these songs, which mixed and mastered the demos into full productions, available on BandCamp, SoundCloud, and potentially on Streaming, as well as another mix, created by Lochlan - a producer Shadow worked with, to digitise and produce the songs, in Cilcularity Hub Studios in Woodville, which will be available on a later date.
Shadow intends to compare both mixes and release the best sounding one on Streaming Services.
Danu's Decline Artwork - by Daisy Banks
Both songs were recorded onto four track cassette tape on a Fostex 160 multitrack recorder, for the ultimate dirty sound quality, with Shadow utilising the Digitech Trio+ pedal for drums and bass, and Shadow's mix containing a dirty horror ambiance made by a tape loop of pitched down mellotron soundscapes. Both songs also contain samples of news broadcasts describing the premise of the songs, regarding climate change and the climate crisis.The premise of Danu's Decline is about the destruction of Danu - the primordial mother goddess of Earth in Celtic Mythology, also known as Gaia in Greece and Terra in Rome (homage to Shadow's Pagan Beliefs). Shadow intended to write a song that will serve as a warning of the destruction and evil ways of mankind and how their actions are literally killing the planet - personified as Danu. in the song Shadow expresses disdainfor mankind and their greedy, reckless and harmful ways as well as war, destruction and corporate greed, conveying elements of nihilism, misanthrophy, anti corporationism, anti authoritarianism and general cynicism and and anger towards oligarchy, the political elite and urbanisation and society. These lyrics are expressed by very differently to the low, mannish grunt they employed in Upon A Bloodied Earth, instead using harsh, whisper-shrieks in the style of Vektor, Nervosa or Slave to Sirens, done by screaming into an overdriven, distorted microphone, and further saturated using the Fostex 160's tape saturation.
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