| Rift.Canyon.Dreams | ||||
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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
| Studio | Robert Lang Studios | |||
| Genre | Doom metal | |||
| Length | 35:05 | |||
| Label | Merciless Records | |||
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Rift.Canyon.Dreams is the second EP by the U.S. doom metal band Burning Witch. It was originally released in 1998 on Merciless Records, to a limited distribution of 500 copies. It is available on the compilation Crippled Lucifer (Seven Psalms for Our Lord of Light), through Southern Lord Records. [1]
Lucifer is the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet Venus. Due to the unique movements and discontinuous appearances of Venus in the sky, mythology surrounding these figures often involved a fall from the heavens to earth or the underworld. Interpretations of a similar term in the Hebrew Bible, translated in the King James Version as the proper name "Lucifer", led to a Christian tradition of applying the name Lucifer, and its associated stories of a fall from heaven, to Satan, but modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage as "morning star" or "shining one" rather than as a proper name, "Lucifer".
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