SPIRITUAL BATS - ORIGINS AND TRANSMUTATIONS [LIMITED] DIGI4CD BOX

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Deluxe BOX with 4 individual digipak-CDs inside

Limited Edition of 300 copies!

After "The Acqualuce Years" collector edition of Burning Gates and The Elysium Facade "Trichotomy" Box, Swiss Dark Nights presents another remastered box, exploring the history of one of the most fundamental Italian Gothic rock acts – later re-named into THE SPIRITUAL BAT, but remaining band-members.

The 4CD Collector Box includes remastered versions of early band releases, deleted for ages: "Spiritual Bats" vinyl EP, a unreleased tape of band rehearsal, "Confession", a complete remixed and remastered version of "Sacrament" EP and the album "Through the Shadows". A journey across 4 different CDS, spanning from 1993 to 2008, featuring four different line- ups. There is a chronological order, except for the bonus tracks on CD1. When you listen to those tracks, you will be flash-forwarding in time (from 1993 to 1998). These bonus songs are actually from the 1996 “Confession” album, but recorded by the “Sacrament” line-up during a rehearsal at Ultrasound studios in 1998, before a one-off US show, at Alchemy Mondays, CB’s Gallery, on August 3rd 1998. The band and label included these tracks on CD1 with the vinyl ep, because… there was room! And because the make-do sound quality of the cassette-tape, is somewhat more compatible with that of the debut vinyl, than it is with the later, professinally recorded releases! We are told this is a true collectors’ item, reserved for those who can appreciate the music beyond the hiss!

TRACKS CD1 “Spiritual Bats Vinyl EP’ (1993): 01 My Sister Dead 02 Vampires not Dead 03 Funeral Cries Bonus-Tracks [Rehearsal USA 1998]: 04 Confession 05 My Sister Dead 06 Live and die 07 Romantic Decadence 08 Tormented Body 09 Vampires not Dead 10 Crucifixion Remastered by Marco Milanesio, now being released in digital form for the first time.

TRACKS CD2 “Confessions” (1996): 01 Confession 02 My Sister Dead 03 Tormented Body 04 Vampires not Dead 05 Crucifixion 06 Funeral Cries 07 Shadows 08 Live and die 09 Romantic Decadence Remastered by Marco Milanesio (originally recorded and mixed by Claudio Mura, at Pan Pot Studio, Rome)

TRACKS CD3 “Sacrament” (1998): 01 Sacrament 02 Reflections of You 03 Lost Souls 04 Ritual 05 Dazzling Lights Remastered and re-mixed by Valerio Rivieccio (originally on Ampex reel, recorded and mixed by Claudio Mura, at Pan Pot Studio, Rome. Transferred from analog to digital by Forward St.)

TRACKS CD4 “Through the Shadows” (2008): 01 Through the Shadows 02 Wandering on Cobble Hills 03 Silver Lakes 04 Prague 05 Wish Power 06 Watz 07 Twins 08 In the Golden Cage 09 Newdance 10 Trance 11 Primordial Call 12 Sogno Tribale Remastered by Marco Milanesio. Marking the change from the plural to the singular name, this album was originally conceived and recorded by The Spiritual Bat in their home studio as an instrumental album with programmed drums, but later vocals and acoustic drums were recorded and mixed by Claudio Mura, in a garage in Serrone.