#semantron

[escuerzoresucitado]

[dreamsofconsciousnessmetal]

Semantron is the solo project of Yob drummer Dave French, in which he takes his love for slow, crushing music in a more ambient/droning direction. The debut full-length Secrets Of A Krummholz Heart will be self-released on July 10th.

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[dramoor]

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[dreamsofconsciousnessmetal]

[Tour flyer designed by Shelby Allison @_littlebatfacedgirl]

Steve Von Til will be touring the West Coast and Southwest of the US in August. Support on select dates will be provided by Semantron and Six Organs of Admittance. Tickets and info can be found here.

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits was taken in Meteora, in the monastery of the Transfiguration, Great Meteoron; the semantron

[periprince]

#semantron #semantronhotel #semantron_hotel #diakopto #diakofto #diakoftoakhaias #ahaia #aigialia #pelloponisos #pelloponese #greece (at Σημαντρον Traditional Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvoXtOCBvOa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zj8lepoz6d4a

[virtuteetarmis]

(Greek: σήμαντρον), or semanterion (σημαντήριον), also called a xylon (ξύλον) (Romanian: toacă; Russian: било, bilo; Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian: клепало, klepalo; Arabic: ناقوس) is a percussion instrument used in monasteries to summon the monastics to prayer or at the start of a procession.

Their tradition also links the sound of the wood to the wood of the Garden of Eden that caused Adam to fall when he plucked its fruit, and to the nailing to the wood of the cross of Jesus Christ, come to atone for Adam's transgression.

[dramoor]

Romanian Priest practicing 'Toaca'.He is beating the Semantron (a wooden board made of heart of Maple or Beech) with two wooden mallets to summon the monastics to prayer. Where there is a metal Semantron, it is customary to strike it after the wooden one has been played.The semantron is sounded every midnight for night offices (Midnight Office and Matins) this is done by the candle-lighter.The Semantra are usually suspended by chains from a peg in the proaulion (porch of the catholicon) or outside the refectory door, or on a tree in the courtyard.