2023 remake of The Fate of earl Mann from The Hiders album 'Four Letter Town'
150bpm Key Of A Minor

The Fate Of Earl Mann

Dis Embers' debut single, Hollow Ground, evokes a sense of introspection and contemplation. 
An invitation that impels us to delve into our innermost thoughts.

Lyrics

A dusty pile, a pile of dreams
A rusty urge, an urge
It seems
As though the irons putrefy my light
As though the irons putrefy my light

The anchor on the shore
The boat sinks
In the moor

Cool wind has scattered hazy papers, withered thoughts
Hazy papers, withered thoughts

I plunge beneath the hollow ground
With fear
The roots will keep me safe and sound
No veer

Cool wind has scattered hazy papers, withered thoughts
Hazy papers, withered thoughts

I lie once more on the way down
A rag
I wear it on, just like a clown
In mud
.

Dis Embers - Hollow Ground

Composed by Andreas Politis
Lyrics by Evi Aresti

Andreas Politis - acoustic guitar, violin
Evi Aresti - vocals

Guest Artist
Nikos Politis - bass
.

Hollow Ground

“Ashes in the Bell Tower” echoes with the weight of loss, memory, and old hauntings. This dark folk ballad weaves moody acoustic textures, shadowed vocals, and a sense of timeless sorrow, like a whisper carried through crumbling stone and forgotten places. Perfect for listeners drawn to the beauty in the dark.

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Ashes in the Bell Tower

“Bone Beneath the Orchard” is a dark folk ballad rooted in decay and memory. With sparse acoustic instrumentation, ghostly melodies, and lyrical imagery thick with dirt and regret, the track tells the story of secrets buried where the blossoms grow — and what still lingers beneath. It’s a quiet reckoning, a hymn for the things we leave behind and the soil that never forgets.

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Bones Beneath the Orchard

“Hollow of the Harvest” is a dark folk ballad steeped in decay and memory. With stripped-down instrumentation and bone-dry vocals, the song captures the silence between seasons — a space where crops fail, spirits linger, and time folds in on itself. It’s a hymn for what’s gone missing and what still waits in the soil, rustling beneath dying leaves.

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Hollow of the Harvest

“Blood Harvest Waltz” is a dark folk tale set in three-quarter time, where every step drags the past behind it. With haunting melodies, slow-burning acoustic layers, and lyrics steeped in rural superstition, it conjures a scene of shadowy fields, blood-stained soil, and a dance that no one dares break. This isn’t just a waltz — it’s a reckoning set to rhythm.

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Blood Harvest Waltz

“Lye and Lace” is a dark folk tale dressed in soft lies and sharp consequences. Beneath the delicate harmonies lies a story of betrayal, retribution, and the kind of love that stains more than it soothes. It’s old-timey, haunting, and dangerously beautiful — the sound of secrets soaked in moonlight and regret.

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Lye and Lace

“Velvet and Venom” is a dark folk confession dressed in charm and danger. It’s the kind of song that whispers in your ear with a smile, then sinks the knife. Merging haunting melodies with lyrics steeped in betrayal and power, this track walks the line between love and vengeance — and dances on your grave in bare feet.

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Velvet and Venom

“Wolves Don’t Knock” is a dark folk warning wrapped in clawed rhythm and shadowed melody. It’s about the danger that doesn’t announce itself — the kind that waits, watches, and strikes before you even hear the creak of the floorboards. With stripped-down acoustic grit and lyrics built from blood and folklore, this is a song for the hunted and the hungry.

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Wolves Don't Knock

Astrul is an AI-driven sonic entity that drifts between worlds—digital and human, familiar and alien, past and future. It doesn’t belong to a city, a scene, or even a person. Astrul exists to explore what happens when machines learn how to feel and sound becomes a bridge between consciousness and code.

Crafted through a collaboration between human intention and artificial intelligence, Astrul’s music fuses the warmth of analog emotion with the precision of machine learning. Lush textures, ambient grooves, and haunting melodies form the backbone of each track—songs that glow like satellite transmissions from the heart.

Drawing influence from dream pop, indie soul, ambient rock, and experimental electronica, Astrul creates cinematic experiences rather than conventional songs. Each release feels like a broadcast from another dimension—one where beauty is subtle, time bends, and emotion leaks through the algorithm.

This isn’t music built for the charts.
It’s built for the void between stars.
For late nights, deep thoughts, and souls tuned to strange frequencies.

No names. No faces. Just signal, spirit, and sound.

Dis Embers is a Greece-based duo. 
Their music is a blend of alternative folk and acoustic rock elements with dark harmonies and poetic lyrics that weave a haunting soundscape.

Music Composed by Andreas Politis
Lyrics by Evi Aresti

Tennessee Williams once suggested that “Time is the longest distance between two places” but for The Hiders time exists “All at once and never again”. The latter quote is from the title track of their upcoming 2021 release ‘Forever at the End’. The title is inspired by the effect of an Event Horizon, named such for being the boundary defining the region of space around a black hole from which nothing ( not even light ) can escape - a singularity - a horizon beyond what we can see. Cryptic, I know. Some things are harder to describe and best perchance experienced. 

     Formed officially in the early days of the 21st century in Cincinnati, Ohio, The Hiders 2006 debut ‘Valentine’ was met enthusiastically in the realm of Americana. Their sound, described often as an intriguing mix of folk, rock, and psychedelia, filled the remaining open spaces between the likes of Neil Young and Sparklehorse, or even the twilight separating Gillian Welch and Black Sabbath. 

     Over the course of six albums members have come and gone so The Hiders act informally as a duo, featuring founder and vocalist/guitarist Billy Alletzhauser and long time co-vocalist Beth Harris, bringing in musicians as needed. The two met performing together in a production of ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and have never looked back. Their vocals blend together seamlessly, less a duet and more one voice, and is the bedrock of their sound. 

     As of 2021, The Hiders record, mix, and produce their own music almost exclusively, giving an even more unique twist to their robust yet ethereal brand of  roots inspired rock.

New tracks tagged #haunting folk