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Lotus Thief
Formed in 2012, Lotus Thief's music is a multiple-genre approach to doom, post-rock, black metal and ambient sound. Their releases use historic texts as lyrical material, with each full length themed on either a historical concept or a singular historic text.

​The first single, "Nymphaea Carulea" - based on Homer's "The Odyssey" - was released on Botanist's "Doom in Bloom". The band then recorded critically‐acclaimed “Rervm”, based on the 55 BCE philosophical piece “De Rerum Natura”, at The Atomic Garden Studios. "Rervm" was released on Svart Records in 2014.

​In 2016, Lotus Thief released its second full‐length, “Gramarye” via on Prophecy Productions. The album spans sorcery, witchcraft, and pagan-themed texts including "The Book of the Dead", excerpts from the Salem witch trials, Aliester Crowley's "The Book of Lies", the story of Circe from "The Odyssey" and one of the few surviving German pagan incantations "The Merseberg Incantations".

​Lotus Thief formed a live 5-player live lineup to tour US West and East Coasts, with a debut European performance at Prophecy Fest in Balve, Germany. In 2017, the group expanded to a 6-player recording lineup to record several future releases, beginning with its next release, Oresteia, released alongside the Rervm re-issue in January, 2020 via Prophecy Productions. "Oresteia" was mixed & mastered by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves in New York City. It retells Aeschylus' tragedy, "The House of Atreus" / "Oresteia Trilogy", 5th century BCC, a tragic epic tale that rails into human violence, heroism and betrayal.