Moon Lore – The Spheres Beneath The Heavens (1997)

Country: Norway

Tracklist

1. There Again... 04:00
2. Lady Grief' Silver Mirror 03:07
3. Mephesti (A Perfect Picture Of Her Beauty) 03:55
4. Murder 01:22
5. The Spheres Beneath The Heavens 03:52
6. Vampire 04:43
7. The Silkenmasked Highpriest Of Dreamland 05:10
8. I? 04:09
9. Bitterness Engraved In A Heart Of Stone 02:18
10. Thou I Laugh, I Weep In My Heart 03:30
11. Outro 03:15

Moon Lore was formed in 1992 by Peter Pendragon.
He recorded the first two track demo using a brand new Fostex 4-track, a guitar,

a Boss drum machine, a cheap microphone and a borrowed delay pedal.
The demo was released into the tape trading underground in 1993.
After the release of the demo he started elaborating on the more gothic influenced track on the cassette, “There Again...”.
This resulted in a rehearsal tape and a demo created in 1994.
After receiving a lot of positive feedback on his releases he signed a deal with Avantgarde in 1995,

and went to studio to record his first album entitled "The Spheres Beneath The Heavens".
He found the recording studio, Frogner Lydstudio, through the yellow pages and started recording in the summer of 1995.
When "The Spheres Beneath The Heavens" was completed

Avantgarde licensed the rights of the album to the German label Malicious Records.
This caused the album to stay unreleased until 1997

and also was the last release for Malicious Records before they went defunct.
After the recording of the album Pendragon started to work with new material,

drawing even more on the gothic influence, with bands such as Christian Death, and The Sisters Of Mercy.
This led to the 1996 demo, "Sleeping With The Dead".
From 1997 and onwards Moon Lore became mostly an electronic band,

using a variety of synthesizers, drum machines and samplers.
In 2000 he used for the first time a PC for recording and made "Demo 2000", limited to 20 copies.
In the period between 2000-2003, now with some proper recording software in his hands,

Pendragon started re-vitalizing the metal part of Moon Lore.
In 2002 he also wrote the music for Maria Vennerød's play "Meir", performed at Det Norske Teatret.
In 2003 after a period of six month recording process

he released the two track demo "Two Evil Eyes", as a CD-r with a professionally printed cover.
After this release Pendragon focused on other band projects (Råte, Mök)

but he still kept on working on Moon Lore from time to time.

In 2007 he released the track "Her Essence" for the Norsk Urskog compilation CD.

In this period he also tried to revitalize Moon Lore as a full line-up live band,

but the band took had already took its own course and morphed into something quite different.

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