"The Lone Furrow" is the logical culmination of all of ROME's previous endeavours; a brilliant and patient demolition of the despiritualised modern age, timeless in its critique of man's greed and the deliberate desecration of beautiful things. ROME is back to fearlessly settle accounts of the spirit, with that grave trademark voice, whose tone can be likened to a wise-man's oracle, deepened by countless cigars and pools of stout, or, at times, a Stuka bomber nose-diving into dry gravel. ROME's art always stays slightly beyond the pale and Reuter certainly is what the mainstream would call a joyous outsider. "The Lone Furrow" is a journey through the ravaged landscapes of history; a spiritual quest weaving a unique poetry of withdrawal from the troubling world into distant retreats. And yet, at the same time, this collection of remarkable compositions is a generous invitation to a great European Tradition of literary thought from Hesse to Nietzsche, from Tacitus to Orwell, from Ovid to the Edda, from Yeats to Baudelaire. Jerome is joined by Alan Averill (PRIMORDIAL), Adam Nergal Darski (BEHEMOTH), Joseph D. Rowland (PALLBEARER), J.J. (HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY), and Laure Le Prunenec (IGORRR). On "The Lone Furrow" ROME weaves a fantastical tale in which gods and men alike ache and tremble, and which reminds us that the world is much larger than our ideas of it, our traditions much deeper than we imagine. Most importantly, ROME refuses the easy answer. File under Neofolk / Chanson. Presented in a beautiful 6-panel textured digipak with hefty booklet.