HDK 190 † SACRED ARMAMENTS “Powerstryke” CASSETTE

I Sacred Armaments play Powerwave, an obscure genre of electronic music that lies somewhere between Dungeon Synth, Synthwave and the soundtracks of Sword and Sorcery films. Conceived by Rexor Runestone as an outlet for uniting fantasy with reality, Sacred Armaments draws inspiration from Sword and Sorcery fiction by authors such as Robert E. Howard and Karl Edward Wagner, from 1980s cult films such as Conquest and Barbarian Queen, from historical works of Norse sagas and Celtic mythology, and from the search for hypertrophy and physical strength in the real world.

POWERSTRYKE: The Barbaric-Synth Debut of Sacred Armaments

POWERSTRYKE is the debut mini-album by Sacred Armaments, unleashing a sonic maelstrom of heroic power and mysticism in the synth underground. For all those who have raised their fists to the sky and appealed to the gods for more blood and thunder in their synth music, Sacred Armaments has taken up your plea and will champion your call – armored, blood-red and ready to fight! The path ahead may be dark and full of danger, but we ride under the banner of Valor and Glory, wielding the Bloodhammer, the sacred armament of old heroes, ready to strike with fury and wrath! Great deeds and great misfortunes await us; will you join the Sacred Armaments in this dark and glorious campaign?”

The HDK Edition of Powerstryke: Strength, Cult Cinema and Barbaric Synth.

HDK has curated the cassette edition of this magnificent and innovative e.p. of immensely vigorous muscular barbaric-synth music that reminds us of childhoods spent watching ugly but equally muscular films such as Ruggero Deodato’s “The Barbarians,” Joe D’Amato’s “Ator the Invincible,” and Cannon’s epic film production “Masters of the Universe.”

The “Powerstryke” cassette contains a booklet with a muscular tale by barbaric-synth writer Sergio Poli inspired by the album’s atmosphere and certainly by the aforementioned cult-movie “The Barbarians” (1987).