Reflections

Five years on from their Osmose-released debut, Hanc Aciem Sola Retundit Virtus (The Algolagnia Divine), FIDES INVERSA strike with their second album, Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans. In those five years, the Italian band have been honing their onstage assault all across the stages of Europe, their rituals becoming real celebrations of zealotry. That experience surely shows across the bold, finessed canvas of Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans, where "black metal" is rendered not as a definition but as an alternately life-giving/life-destroying force. Classicist yet paying no lip service to tradition, FIDES INVERSA invested their very souls in the creation of this second opus: exhaustive spiritual research and a total immersion inside the darkest manifestations of what the German theologist Rudolf Otto called "the numinous." The divine, in its most terrifying forms, takes life from chaotic sounds and revealed words whose intent is to represent the mystic terror and the undefeatable fascination of Death, the human nullification, in favor of a complete prostration to the One whose light is spread out of the darkest vacuum. Ascend and descend with FIDES INVERSA's Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans...


Blaze of Perdition "Przez rany" from the album "Upharsin"

Upharsin

Blaze of Perdition "Przez rany"

Utterly all Alone

Always the vanguard of purist-yet-boundless black metal, W.T.C. PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the debut album of SHRINE OF INSANABILIS, Disciples of the Void. Although literally emerging from nothingness earlier this year, SHRINE OF INSANABILIS are no mere acolytes, instead evincing a master's knowledge across their debut album. Never more aptly titled, Disciples of the Void comprises six testimonies to the fiery aspiration for enlightenment through inconceivable nothingness. These testimonies are also manifested into this world by their corresponding sigils. SHRINE OF INSANABILIS vividly portray these visions through a heaving mass of obsidian black metal, forever rising and falling, surging and merging, offering glimpses of glory and valleys of despair in equal measure. Like most W.T.C. PRODUCTIONS, Disciples of the Void is impeccably recorded - bold, full-bodied, even Technicolor - with mixing & mastering done by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony, and finished off with David Glomba (Teitanarts) cover art truly deserving of its malefic contents. Blinding darkness, unbearable silence, and incureable madness, all displayed for everyone to experience: this is a raging beginning on a path through the Void.

Format: CD, LP (at a later point in 2015, in co-operation with Fallen Empire), Digital
Genre: black metal
Catalogue Nr.: W.T.C.136

Tracklist
1.End All
2.Ruina
3.Acausal Paths
4.(...........)
5.Invocation
6.Still Of This Earth
7.Cycles And Circles
8.Acerbus
9.Omega

Credits
All songs summoned from the void by Shrine of Insanabilis.
All artwork by David Glomba. Mixed and Mastered by Patrick W. Engel
at Temple of Disharmony in February 2015.

Shrine of Insanabilis - Acerbus

DUNG SHITTER

Sludge

taken from the "Night of Consecration" 12"LP

Pyriphlegethon - An Ancient Spell

W.T.C. PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ACRIMONIOUS' highly anticipated third album, Eleven Dragons. A work of unimaginable might, of enduring and unyielding spiritual will, Eleven Dragons is the sound of serious and thoroughly occult BLACK/DEATH metal given shape and successive flight. It is the many-splendored brilliance of eternal (and eternally damning) illumination, spread across 11 hymns in an engrossing 'n' engaging 67 minutes. It is the promise - and subsequent sonic manifestation, at their respective times of study - of ACRIMONIOUS' celebrated first two albums taken yet further into the hungry, ever-beckoning void. It is METAL, hailing the mysteries of death and draped in the blackest of shadows, unfurled full fathom across the ecstasy of sin and Satan. It is verily Eleven Dragons, at the threshold of The Beyond.

The volcanic eruption that churned ACRIMONIOUS out of the depths commenced in 2002. It was during a period that the underground was receiving an injection of creativity again after a long period of stagnation and aimless exploration, which had led to the dilution of the adversarial Light with elements hostile to the eyes of the Destroyer, within the extreme metal scene, which was hungry for madness and danger again.

Beginning the journey as a homage to the ancient and morbid ways of the '80s and '90s Satanic metal, the many-tentacled abomination of ACRIMONIOUS was nourished by the prana of old Samael, Sarcofago, old Mayhem, Tormentor, Nifelheim, and Dissection amongst others, while simultaneously sharpening the blades and perfecting the skills of the craft. It would later on manifest the Perdition Gospel mini-album, its first concrete attempt to glorify at the temple of Satan. Then the Broken Bonds of Balance 7" EP followed the next year. By that time, a change in members was necessary and inevitable a step, as Funus and Nuctemeron left the band, leaving only Cain Letifer as the sole member to contemplate upon the monuments of the trinity of Lucifer, Lilith, and Cain, thus giving birth to the first full-length album, Purulence.

Even though the band had deliberately kept a very low profile during the years, the Beast was fanning the flames constantly in the shadows, aiming at a reconstruction of identity which would lead further into the Abyss of formlessness, darkness, and uncertainty through majestic Art. So it happened that, in the year 2011, Semjaza of THY DARKENED SHADE entered the ranks of ACRIMONIOUS as a second guitar-player and bassist, and also the addition of C.Docre on drums. Thus, the band proceeded to record the second full-length album, which was released at the end of 2012 under the name of Sunyata.

Many moons passed and many sparks illumined the midnight sky, by the striking of the hammer of will on the anvil of tribulation. Much blood watered the fertile soil that led to the crucifixion of matter with Spirit, and so it came to pass that the third sonic invocation was conceived, namely Eleven Dragons, glorifying the forces that bring All back into the primordial nothingness. ACRIMONIOUS is honored to announce its collaboration with WORLD TERROR COMMITTEE for the release of the third horror of nameless Void on CD and LP. This is the pinnacle of Glory and Thunderous Power, the crowning achievement, an echo of ecstatic laughter in a backward dance of malicious Fury that venerates the Eleven Flames of the One without Names. BEHOLD!

Lineup

Cain Letifer - guitars, vocals
Semjaza - guitars, bass
C.Docre - drums

Credits

Recorded in Sitra Ahra Studios
Mixed and mastered by Stamos Koliousis
Album artwork, design and layout by Vamperess Imperium
Additional lead guitars by Semjaza
Additional vocals on “Stirring the Ancient Waters” by J.S. and CTN 358
Whisper on “Elder of the Nashiym” by Dymadiel

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Acrimonious - 04 - Satariel's Grail

As some of you may have already gathered, we began recording our long overdue debut full length a while back. As a prelude, we are unleashing a 12" maxi single featuring an extended version of "FIREBIRDS" , the centerpiece of the album, as well as "PROWESS" - an altogether exclusive track not to be featured on the album. It will be released on regular black vinyl and limited silver vinyl through Terratur Possessions on August 24th, coinciding with the mighty Beyond the Gates festival in Bergen, Norway.

"Firebirds b/w Prowess" was recorded in Nordstern, Trondheim, 2017. Engineered, mixed and mastered by Pål S. Gaupseth. Produced by P. S. G. and One Tail, One Head. Music and lyrics by Jan Even, arrangements by One Tail, One Head. Cover illustration by Izzy.

ONE TAIL, ONE HEAD - Firebirds

I’m a tattoo artist………a painter……….and play guitar………..

Utterly all Alone

Justin Heath

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