Welcome to Hekaloth Records of Canada

Unlike Anything You've Ever Heard Before

Hekaloth Records is a new recording label located in Vancouver BC. Canada. Our specialty is orchestral metal that employs epic themes. We are partial to music that puts a strong emphasis on the instrumental side of things. We want to expand the boundaries of metal by attempting fuse it with classical orchestral music, jazz or even world music. We are intrigued by the idea of combining elements of metal with the sounds of instruments not traditionally heard in that genre. especially when this is accomplished by the use of a single instrument, the guitar synthesizer. We believe that the guitar synthesizer represents a new frontier in music. While guitar synthesizers have been since the late 1970's, they've never guite been harnessed in the way that artists on our label have.
For more information about guitar synthesizers
to listen to or download mp3's of a four movement symphony created on a guitar synthesizer

At present, we have released albums by these artists:

Xynfonica

Xynfonica's "A Feast for Famished Ravens" features sinister growled vocals accompanied by the sound or classical symphony. Six part contrapuctual harmonies juxtaposing strings horns and woodwind sections provide a background for three very long songs based on legends of the Viking age. All in all there is over 70 minutes of music on the CD.

For more information about Xynfonica and the album "A Feast For Famished Ravens:
"A Feast for Famished Ravens" can be ordered through:

www.scratchrecords.com
"A Feast for Famished Ravens" is also available from:
www.cdbaby.com.com

Shevalreq

Shevalreq's "Tournament at Constantinople" features growled vocals accompanied by the sounds of World Music instruments such as Indian tablas and sitars, Chinese erhu violins and zheng zithers, Indonesian gamelon as well as western orchestral instruments. Fourteen songs based on the 15th Century medieval poem "Orlando Inamorato" by Matteo Boiardo{1434-94}, a tale of chivalry about valiant knights who become enchanted by a beautiful damsel.

For more information about Shevalreq and the album "Tournament at Constantinople":

"A Tournament at Constantinople" can also be ordered through:

www.scratchrecords.com
"A Tournament at Constantinople" is also available from

www.cdbaby.com
Select tracks from "Tournament at Constantinople" are available on
iTunes

The follow up to "Tournament at Constantinople", "The Siege of Albraca " contines the medieval epic based of Matteo Boiardo's 15th Century poem "Orlando Inamorato" . Once again all the Asian and European orchestral instruments are created via guitar synthesizer

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"The Seige of Albraca" can also be ordered through:

www.scratchrecords.com
"The Siege of Albraca" is also available from

www.cdbaby.com

Gluttony

Gluttony's: Collapse of the Roman Republic{Liber Primus} features sinister death vox accompanied by jazz instrumentation. saxophones, clarinets, trumpets, trombones, vibraphones, fretless basses and tabla drums flesh out the orchestration. Plus several tracks feature real sitars and tabla drums. Lyrics are based on an account of the events in Roman History between 107 and 70 BC.

For more information about Gluttony and the album "Collapse of the Roman Republic":
"Collapse of the Roman Republic: Liber Primus" can be ordered through:

www.scratchrecords.com
"Collapse of the Roman Republic: Liber Primus" is also available from

www.cdbaby.com
Select tracks from "Collapse of the Roman Republic: Liber Primus" are available on
iTunes

Thursar

Sinister growled vocals accompanied by guitar synthesizers and real Asian world music instruments, like pipas{Chinese lute} gu zheng{Chinese zither}, Indian sitars, Veenas, tabla drums and dholok drums, as well as innovative new inmstruments like electric sitars and electric veenas.
For more information about Thursar and the album "Journey to Jotunheim,:
"Journey to Jotunheim" can be ordered through:

www.scratchrecords.com
"Journey to Jotunheim" is also available through:
www.cdbaby.com
Select tracks from "Journey to Jotunheim" are available on
iTunes

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Note:This website probably won't win any awards for webdesign. When we designed it, we wanted to keep things simple so that even people with older model computers could access it. While we could have included a few more bells and whistles, we decided against that, as it is our belief that people shouldn't have to upgrade their computer systems to learn about us. At Hekaloth Records, we are open for business to anyone who is interested in our products. We hope you've found this site helpful and will take the time to check out the artists we are featuring.