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In a world that continuously feels louder, faster, and harder to survive, Society of the Silver Cross creates a space where you can finally catch your breath. Their new album, Festival of Invocations, opens a portal to another reality. It is a dark, spellbinding antidote to the chaos outside, created for anyone ready to surrender to the unknown.
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A Cathedral for the Damaged and Dreamers
Recorded inside Temple of the Trees, a studio the band built from the ground up to resemble a gothic cathedral, Festival of Invocations feels like stepping inside a fever dream. There is no cheap spectacle here. Every sound—the haunted thrum of a 12-string acoustic, the ghostly wheeze of a harmonium, the eerie, metallic shimmer of the shahi baaja—was meticulously woven together to create an immersive sonic experience. Each track feels like a step along a pilgrimage, where the destination is as mysterious as the journey itself. Joe Reineke and Karyn Gold-Reineke guide you into a space where shadows stretch long and light flickers at the edges.
A Sound Forged from Survival
The heart of Festival of Invocations rises from raw survival. Written during the isolating years of the pandemic, the album carries the weight of Joe’s personal battles with addiction and cancer. Yet instead of drowning in darkness, Society of the Silver Cross twists pain into something fierce and defiantly alive.
This music captures a spirit of resilience. It pulls itself through the wreckage and finds beauty waiting on the other side.
Where East Meets West, and Time Fades Out
Society of the Silver Cross rejects easy categorization. They fuse ancient Eastern instruments, such as the harmonium and shahi baaja, with heavy, doom-soaked Americana. The resulting sound feels untethered from both geography and time itself.
The band weaves a hypnotic, low-lit swirl of neofolk, funeral home rock, and what some critics have called “yogic metal.” It is eerie, lush, and impossible to ignore. It exists in a world entirely of its own.
Music That Refuses to Rush
In a digital culture obsessed with instant gratification, Festival of Invocations asks for something rare: your undivided attention. It invites you to stop scrolling, stop rushing, and surrender fully. Let the chant-like vocals, textured synths, and bombastic rhythms take hold.
When you give yourself to it, the album delivers something most modern music barely dares to attempt: true transcendence.
A Pulse That Will Not Let Go
Even beneath the album’s slowest, most meditative moments, a primal heartbeat continues to pulse. Society of the Silver Cross understands that darkness is not stillness. It is motion, change, and rebirth, even at its most shadowed. Festival of Invocations hums with the electricity of transformation.
It shapes your midnight moods into something more profound.
Time to Step Inside
While the rest of the world competes for your attention, Society of the Silver Cross offers something more seductive. Step out of the noise and into the invocation.
Festival of Invocations is streaming now. Follow Society of the Silver Cross on Instagram, listen to the album on Spotify, and explore their hypnotic world on TikTok.
