Label: House of Inkantation Format: CD, LP, tape Country: Germany Released: April 25, 2025 Genre: Rock, Acoustic Style: Dark folk, Pagan, Neofolk
Tracklist
1. Ashes Scatter & the Blood Pours (1:36) 2. From Chalice to Chalice (3:57) 3. Kneel at the Throne (4:14) 4. Built to Fall (5:27) 5. The Gift of Your Light (4:24) 6. Sublunar Echoes (5:23) 7. Splendor Solis (3:37) 8. A Judgement Swift (5:04) 9. The Key (1:00) 10. The Fool’s Toll (5:15) 11. At the Mystery’s End (2:09)
Re-emerging from one’s own spiritual abyss with a jewel of truth for the world is the final stage of a long initiatory journey. It is with “At the Mystery’s End”, that TITHING (neé Tithe) steps forth into a new beginning, not solely as a new entity, but at the end of a grandiose evolution towards something greater. Eleven songs traverse the arcana of the soul and explore the deeply poignant process of reawakening after a long and stagnant nigredo. Wandering melodies and powerful orchestration ebb and flow between S.P Haché’s complex finger-picking, while his character baritone is joined by a myriad of voices to spin occult tales with arcane allegory and surreptitious symbolism.
Each autobiographical song was conceived with a specific symbol set in mind, informing the words, tonality, and even the instrumentation chosen to sympathetically enhance the magic at work. What emerged is a haunting dark folk balancing sumptuous bombast and subtle beauty, extracting inspiration from World Serpent's glory days and the lush largesse of 2000s post-industrial luminaries. Walking the path of the Fool’s journey, Tithing has traversed the Abyss to transmute the ashes of the past into a fresh vision of Spiritual gold.
Tithing is: S.P Haché Guitar, Voice, Mandolin, Percussion, Keys
In collaboration with:
Sebastian Montesi: Keys Soren Mourne: Cello Amanda Aalto: Voice, Piano Mike Adams: Violin Egan Budd: Accordion, Voice Ian Campbell: Percussion, Voice Paulus: Percussion, Keys, Voice Nicholas Yanchuk: Mandolin Alex Badger: Voice D.: Voice Anne K. O’Neill: Voice
At the Mystery‘s End was recorded between 2022 and 2023 at Small Offerings Studios
Collaborators presented their offerings from across the aethyr “The Key” captured at Seville Cathedral in 2024 Edited and mixed by S.P Haché Mastered by Nathaniel Ritter Artwork by Mystic Barbarism Layout design by House of Inkantation
„It contains within itself the fire by which it must be dissolved“
