6 April 2026

Project: THE SANCTITY OF CROWS
Who: An award-winning solo indie music project by Ian A Napier, who lives
in Scotland. He creates mostly instrumental, often cinematic music. Distinctive
genre-agnostic flights high above the confluence of the two great rivers Prog
and Post-rock.

Album: TIME
3rd one.

Press info: “Mostly dark, sometimes menacing – even when the music is upbeat,
there is still often a mysterious undercurrent. Genre-agnostic as always, but hovering somewhere around Progressive Rock / Post-Rock territory.

It seemed like a good idea to have all the song titles on the album reference the concept of time in some way, and to call the album “Time”. When the nine titles were chronologically sequenced, they were found to manifest the endless cycle of birth, life, death and reincarnation.”

Album artwork

TUTV: Looking for a matching soundtrack that reflects the apocalyptic times we have to endure, because of the monstrous egos of narcissistic world leaders? This staggering opus is the one. It resonates like a metal Darkside Of The Moon odyssey. Otherworldly, ominous, and bone-chilling.

The overall colossal, bloodcurdling, and bombastic sonorousness evokes imagery from the Doomsday movie War Of The Worlds (2005), exploring Victorian-era fears of imperialism and technological destruction.

The album’s 14-minute centrepiece Living For Tomorrow seems to suggest that
there’s a weak light at the end of the survival tunnel. We can’t stop being hopeful.

Time is a titanic, instrumental work dominated by doom and gloom intertextures,
layers of gruesome guitars, theatrical synth waves, and at times industrial-rock shocks. This traumatic record accentuates the foreboding signs of the present times. The clock
is ticking. Armageddon is just around the corner.

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