Classic releases by cult San Francisco project Botanist are coming soon via Prophecy Productions. I: The Suicide Tree/II: A Rose From The Dead as a 2LP set, on both black vinyl and as a limited blue and mint set. III: Doom In Bloom has also been pressed as a 2LP set, this time on black vinyl and a limited edition dark purple variant. Meanwhile, those records, plus the Allies compilation of friends covering Botanist, plus a 2013 rehearsal demos have been collated alongside a live DVD for the deluxe Encyclopedia Botanica CD artbook.

Bio;

BOTANIST are different.

When composer, lyricist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Otrebor created the San Francisco based band in 2009, he already had a specific lyrical concept in mind that has persisted to permeate all releases up to today.

Now we’ve collected some of their classics as vinyl reissues, or into a CD art book as an in depth collection celebrating a unique career. Experience it here:

http://lnk.spkr.media/botanist-rise

The songs are told from the perspective of a protagonist called “The Botanist”, who is depicted as a crazed man of science that lives in self-imposed exile, as far away from Humanity and its crimes against Nature as possible. In his sanctuary of fantasy and wonder, which he calls “The Verdant Realm”, “The Botanist” surrounds himself with plants and flowers to find solace in the company of the Natural world, while he envisions the destruction of mankind.

BOTANIST’s lyrics are equally informed by scientific nomenclature as they are inspired by Romantic-era poetry, art, and philosophy. BOTANIST are different also in musical terms. In a striking departure from traditional metal instrumentation, Otrebor uses distorted hammered dulcimers instead of guitars. This also makes BOTANIST the first band to adapt magnetic pickups to hammered dulcimer.

Stylistically, the Americans pay tribute to the mentality of some of the pioneering Scandinavian black metal bands’ connection to nature, before spinning the dark yarn into new sonic and emotional fabrics. To BOTANIST, the black metal trope about misanthropy and of being alone in the forest is in fact about the woods and its floral inhabitants themselves.

With these reissues we’ve repressed I: The Suicide Tree/II: A Rose From The Dead as a 2LP set, on both black vinyl and as a limited blue and mint set. III: Doom In Bloom has also been pressed as a 2LP set, this time on black vinyl and a limited edition dark purple variant. Meanwhile, those records, plus the Allies compilation of friends covering Botanist, plus a 2013 rehearsal demos have been collated alongside a live DVD for the deluxe Encyclopedia Botanica CD artbook.

Indulge in these ‘green metal’ masterpieces here:

http://lnk.spkr.media/botanist-rise