“Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities towards the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.” H.P. LOVECRAFT YOGSOTHERY GATE I: CHAOSMOGONIC RITUALS OF FEAR _____________________________________________________________________ FORMAT: CD CATALOG N. IVR004 I. JÄÄPORTIT – Kuihtuman Henkivi (25:31) II. UMBRA NIHIL – Suur-Nikkurin Virsi (10:46) III. AARNI – Lovecraft Knew (11:34) IV. CAPUT LVIIIm – Resurgent Atavism (29:57) Total time 77:48 CD in a cardboard slipcase. 20-page booklet with liner notes and lyrics Booklet illustrations by Philippe Druillet, taken from his masterpieces ‘Yragael’ (1973-74) and ‘Les 6 Voyages de Lone Sloane’ (1972) © Editions Glénat Released November 15th, 2010 “Chaosmogonic Rituals Of Fear” is the first volume in the YOGSOTHERY trilogy of metal tributes to the genius of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and his literary creations. 120 years after his birth, 4 underground bands passed the Gates of Unknown to distill their Lovecraftian cosmic visions of horror and madness in 4 monumental tracks, exclusive to this release. Secretly assembled during the years, the album is a 78-minute opus of obscure avant-garde prog metal, abysmal dark soundscapes and frightening blackened space-doom courtesy of the Finnish avant-masters AARNI and UMBRA NIHIL, the cosmic-ambient psychonauts JÄÄPORTIT (FIN) and the mysterious space-doom project CAPUT LVIIIm (ITA). EMBRACING NOTHINGNESS by Len Van Der Wolf (project originator and album compiler) Six years ago I asked his tentacular majesty .M. of the mysterious Yuggothian cult called Aarni, how he...
Australian one-man band MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY combines depressive black metal with doomy and ambient music. Apparently based on primitive structures and melodies, Firmament builds itself on layers upon layers of monumental guitars, enchanting keys, hypnotic rhythms, and burzumish vocals. Epic and symphonic without being self-indulgent, MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY enshrouds the listener in a mystic and mesmerizing sonic fog, involving him in an exalting ritual of night-adoration. This is the majesty of the nightsky renewed, a dark observation on the mystery of existence while searching for a higher truth. MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY FIRMAMENT _______________________________ FORMAT: CD CATALOG N. IVR-003 1. From Forest To Firmament (9:27) 2. Nocturnal Prey (7:24) 3. Departing Flesh And Bone (5:14) 4. A Host For Ghosts (5:16) 5. As Dark And Ominous As Stormclouds (9:39) 6. Salvation Denied (8:16) 7. Storms Of Fire And Ice (5:10) 8. From Firmament To Forest (9:14) 9. Beyond The Eighth Sphere (8:33) Total time 69:33 Jewelcase CD 12-page full color booklet with lyrics Released April 16th, 2010 DIS PATER all instruments and vocals Midnight Odyssey’s debut album Firmament is a monument of ambient/doomy black metal built on visionary sounds. A pagan ritual of night adoration, a scanner darkly with new eyes. For fans of Burzum, Manes, Summoning, Lustre and...
UMBAH is Cal Scott’s creature, born in 1990 from the ashes of UK’s death/grind act Necrosanct. Syringing the mechanical, alienating coldness of industrial metal into a deformed death/grind hulk, Scott gives life to a Frankenstein’s metal monster that speaks a unique musical language, as progressive and breathtaking as the ones by Cynic, Meshuggah, Fear Factory, Skinny Puppy, late Ulver, Voivod, and Gorguts. Now, after many years of underground militancy, UMBAH comes out of the shadows with its most ambitious and annihilating work to date. Thanks to complex arrangements, creative song-structures, weird industrial sounds, schizophrenic vocals, dark and disturbing melodies, jazz contaminations and symphonic interludes, “Trilobeth” raises the avant-garde extreme metal flag to new heights. UMBAH TRILOBETH __________________________ FORMAT: CD CATALOG N. IVR-002 1. The Fall Of Modern Thought (5:18) 2. Horon Vakel (5:31) 3. BeeHive (4:15) 4. Beryllium Crisis (5:55) 5. Sheep Of Sad Fate (4:53) 6. A Happy Story (4:38) 7. A Little Uneasy (4:48) 8. Mesoria A Larkara (4:37) 9. A Zen Horizon (4:17) 10. To A Somber Place (1:58) 11. Trilobeth (4:06) 12. Girl From Mars (5:08) 13. Torn (2:24) Total time 57:48 Jewelcase CD with 12-page full color booklet Released April 16th, 2010 ____________________________________ Conceived and recorded in 2007, “Trilobeth” is UMBAH’s highest achievement in the industrial death/grind metal field. A titanic monument to metal madness, an intimidating weapon projected to erase and re-write the extreme metal vocabulary, opening new vistas on uncharted territories. UMBAH is Cal Scott: vocals, guitars,...
