The Power Cosmic

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The Power Cosmic

Studio album by Bal-Sagoth

Released

1999

Genre

Symphonic black metal

Length

40:30

Label

Nuclear Blast

Bal-Sagoth chronology

Battle Magic
(1998)

The Power Cosmic
(1999)

Atlantis Ascendant
(2001)

The Power Cosmic is Bal-Sagoth's fourth album, released in 1999. The album was Bal-Sagoth's first with Nuclear Blast. This was the first Bal-Sagoth album to not contain a full lyric booklet (on their earlier releases, they would include a lyric booklet that contained not only song lyrics but an accompanying story). The full version of the lyrics were later released on the band's website and in the Russian sub-licensed edition of the album. ^[1]

The primary story within the album is that of of Zurra, a rogue demigod who is released from his imprisonment beneath the Mare Imbrium and searches space to reassemble the powerful Empyreal Lexicon. The song "Of Carnage and a Gathering of the Wolves" takes place in Darkenhold forest, a location last referenced in track 9 of the album Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule.

"The Scourge of the Fourth Celestial Host" references Marvel Comics hero The Silver Surfer battling the Fourth Celestial Host. Within the lyrics, The Silver Surfer is referred to by the name Norrin-Radd, Thor is referenced by mention of his "uru hammer", and Galactus is referred to by the name Galan of Taa. The celestials Arishem and Exitar, the watcher Uatu, and Shalla-Bal are also referenced within the song and lyrics. The album title itself, The Power Cosmic, is a reference to the superpowers possessed by The Silver Surfer.