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This showcase contains track excerpts from a selection of albums by raison d'être.

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The new raison d'être studio album Daemonum will be released by Cyclic Law on September 17,  2021. Standard version on CD / 2LP / Digital and Special edition including a bonus album on 2CD / 3LP / Digital. Pre-sales available from raison d'être Bandcamp store and Cyclic Law Bandcamp store and website. Artwork by Nihil. Music and video by raison d'être.

https://raisondetre.bandcamp.com/album/daemonum
https://raisondetre.bandcamp.com/album/daemonum-daemoniacum

Full press release information:
raison d'être "Daemonum" CD/2LP/Digital (178th Cycle)
Daemonum marks the 30-years anniversary of raison d'être. With Daemonum raison d'être scrutinizes the secrets of the Shadow; the Anima/Animus archetypes and the manifestation of them as a Soul image. By learning to listen for the voice of our subconscious self, we can call that voice our Daemon, our internal genius that provide guidance, we can find hidden potential within ourselves. Daemonum is the album of the daemons.

Hunting in the shadows, for the hidden and the opposite, Daemonum is another crossing, deep down to the shaded domains of the inner world. Struggling in blindness and oblivion, guidance and protectors are needed to unfold the obscure matters of our unconsciousness. 

Track list:
01) The Implacable Portal
02) Awaking The Primordial Image 
03) The Roots Of Our Weaknesses
04) Inside The Enantiodromia
05) Retrieving The Maternal Cathexis
06) Daemonium

Sounds, structures and K-14 level mastering by Peter Andersson 2020.
Artwork by Nihil.

Standard edition CD of 500 copies in 6-panel digisleeve, matt lamination. 6 Tracks. Running time: 74.56.
Standard edition 2LP of 300 copies in Gatefold sleeve, matt lamination. 6 Tracks. Running time: 73.30.


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raison d'être "Daemonum” + "Daemoniacum" 2CD/3LP/Digital (178th Cycle)
Daemonum marks the 30-years anniversary of raison d'être. With Daemonum raison d'être scrutinizes the secrets of the Shadow; the Anima/Animus archetypes and the manifestation of them as a Soul image. By learning to listen for the voice of our subconscious self, we can call that voice our Daemon, our internal genius that provide guidance, we can find hidden potential within ourselves. Daemonum is the album of the daemons.

Hunting in the shadows, for the hidden and the opposite, Daemonum is another crossing, deep down to the shaded domains of the inner world. Struggling in blindness and oblivion, guidance and protectors are needed to unfold the obscure matters of our unconsciousness. 

And to mark this 30th anniversary release, we’re offering an exclusive and limited special edition of Daemonum, a double CD or triple LP which includes a bonus album, "Daemoniacum". Think of Daemoniacum as some sort of anti-polarized version of Daemonum, as if Daemonum was haunted and possessed by a demon. As if the daemon inside is turned into a demonic creature because the host becomes obsessed by the demon. As if the Anima/Animus was intruded and molested or rejected and deformed, infecting the host, causing a different and repressed output. Daemoniacum is the album manifested by the demons. 

Track list:
Daemonum:
01) The Implacable Portal
02) Awaking The Primordial Image 
03) The Roots Of Our Weaknesses
04) Inside The Enantiodromia
05) Retrieving The Maternal Cathexis
06) Daemonium

Daemoniacum:
07) The Reclining Gate
08) Extrication From The Eternal Certitude
09) The Convergence Of Our Strengths
10) External Transmogrification
11) Wasting The Paternal Energy
12) Binding By Oath

Sounds, structures and K-14 level mastering by Peter Andersson 2020.
Artwork by Nihil.

Special edition 2CD of 500 copies in 6-panel digisleeve, matt lamination. 12 Tracks. Running time: CD1 74.56, CD2 40.58.
Special edition 3LP of 300 copies in Trifold sleeve, matt lamination. 12 Tracks. Running time: LP 1&2 73.30 minutes, LP3 39.30.

raison d'être - Daemonum - Official Album Teaser 2021

Black Feathers

Mictian - Sa-c - 2013.
Dark Ambient / Experimental From Osorno. Chile.

Mictian - Sa -c

Our irish recipe- Baileys demo. 
This track was released on 22/1/14:-) 
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Upgrade- Baileys

Halgraths second album on Cryo Chamber is a very personal one, where the artists shares her inner struggles of transformation after dramatic events in her life. This dark ambient journey carries not only deep drones, but serene voices and emotional soundscapes as well. 

Available and recommended in 24 bit FLAC.
credits
released 07 January 2014 
Production, Sounds, Mastering - Agratha 
Artwork - Agratha and Simon Heath

Halgrath - Cold Breath of Mountains

Teaser for the new raison d'être studio album 'Mise en Abyme', out on Transgredient Records 2014. 

'Mise en Abyme' (placed into the abyss) is an inner katabasis journey to the most hidden and darkest parts of the Self. Conceptually the album contains ingredients from 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante or any similar stories/myths around the katabasis theme. Instead of being linked to religion, history or morality, 'Mise en Abyme' is purely a psychological and therapeutic trip to the underworld. But even in the most dark and chaotic places in the depths there are small shades of light, hope and understanding; one can be enlightened and purified in the return from an inferno. 

Video teaser available here:
http://youtu.be/pmnvden-DBo

raison d'être - 'Mise en Abyme' album teaser

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Yahel - Waves Of Sound(Upgrade Rmx) Demo

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Upgrade- Irish Are Here demo

Suuri Shamaani, Deaf Center, Phelios, Sephiroth, Raison D'être, Lustmord, Desiderii Marginis

Dark Ambient [Compilation I]

Altered State, Tribes of Medusa , Phelios, Coph Nia, Herbst9, Lustmord, In Slaughter Natives

Dark Ambient [Compilation II]

Necro Stellar, North Hive, X-Evier,  Necrophorus, Deeper in Zen, xuNx

Dark Ambient [Compilation III]

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0.00 Upgrade- Intro tribute Shiva Shidapu- Power of celtic
3.10 Upgrade- Irish are here
7.09 Yahel- Waves of sound (Upgrade Rmx)
10.44 Upgrade- Come closer to the speakers 2014
13.27 Upgrade - Baileys
17.29 Upgrade& Azax Syndrome- Chakra flow
24.50 Upgrade- 7 Skies
28.30 Upgrade - The world
30.16 Upgrade- Ax
33.51 Upgrade- March & Drum
39.10 Upgrade- Tranceperent
42.07 Upgrade- One sunrise
45.32 Upgrade- IP2
49.42 Yahel - Going Up(Upgrade Rmx)
52.54 Upgrade -Intense (Tribute for Armin van burren-Intense) 
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Yahel- For the people- Upgrade Rmx (Demo from the E.P)

Remixes Teaser from Deathcamp Project "No Cure" MCD

No cure single mix

Depeche Mode Mixed - Volume XV (Teaser 3)

Excerpt from the CD album 'In Sadness, Silence and Solitude' (original 1997/ remastered 2006).

Reflecting in Shadows

The Well of Sadness

A nonstop, live mixed collection of West Coast Gothic and Deathrock bands that have played live at RELEASE THE BATS!
15 artists out of more than 50 that have played the famous "Bat Stage", 1998 thru 2011.
This is volume one! Turn it up! Enjoy~
Compiled &amp; mixed live by DJ Dave Bats


This is Release The Bats Vol. I

A quick and dirty remix of a track by Kingston Air Force... Very up tempo and danceable.

Grace Surrender

The new album will be released by Cyclic Law on CD / 2LP / Download on the 31st of January 2018. Pre-sales will be available from early January directly from raison d'être Bandcamp store and Cyclic Law Bandcamp store and website.

Alchymeia

raison d'être - Alchymeia - official album teaser 2017

Sound clip from the CD 'When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes' which gathers 75 minutes unique live only material performed at different locations during 2010 and 2011: Zürich, Wuppertal, Rotterdam, Cologne, Leipzig (WGT), Cherkassy and more. The starting point for these live tracks is mainly the sounds used for 'In sadness, Silence and Solitude', 'Metamorphyses' and 'The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice' looped and mixed live together with on spot improvised sounds, thus shaped into new never before heard sonically expressions.

The Water of Cleansing

Spira Mirabilis

Shadow Weaver

Sound clip taken from the forthcoming (spring 2012) CD re-release of  'Aprés nous le Dèluge'  from 1992, restored and remixed for superior quality and added with bonus tracks. The dark, atmospheric and energetic mix of choirs, strings, various Fx sounds, heavy drums and tribal sections makes this the seed for the raison d’être sound trademark that begun with the album 'Prospectus I' from 1993. 

Moribund

Death Brightens With Sorrow

A previously unheard early/rough mix of the first track from the Lustmord album Heresy.

Heresy was released 20 years ago this month (September 1990) and recorded in 1989.


Heretic 1 v3

from the album Phrenitis
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com

Atrium Carceri -  Faces of war

Stratvm Terror - 'Aged Fractures and Dead Ends' 2CD Old Europa Café 2012
Available in October!

Press-release:
Is it really dead? : yes, this release marks the end of Stratvm Terror.
But what an end!
Massive sounds of drowning liquids, mechanized background noises, brain mangler soundscapes and harsh abrasive amplifications.
Playing this loud will probably make you deaf, but what else is there to listen to after experiencing this.
'Aged Fractures and Dead Ends' is a vast collection of various archive material produced by the Stratvm Terror constellation Peter Andersson (raison d'être) and Tobias Larsson (Ocean Chief).
Lost pieces, sketches, live material, cassette and compilation tracks between 1993 and 1999. 150 minutes in total and most of it has previously never been released.
Comes in a 6-panel digipak with photos by Henrik Stolt.

Aged Fractures and Dead Ends (preview/extracts from)

'Phrenitis' takes the listener to a twisted place where the walls between worlds are razed. The ruinous cities of wars long past, where time itself is but a prisoner and the warlords roaming their purgatorial halls are free to destroy the very foundations of the natural order. 

'Phrenitis' is the 6th album of Atrium Carceri and is yet another step of the ever increasing Atrium Carceri wake up call. Simon Heath shows himself and the world, yet again, that no man is ever truly the master of their art unless they strive to evolve with it. The soundscapes he has created bypass the conscious mind, taking the listener deep into his pristine nightmare. The evolution of sound is spot-on and sets Atrium Carceri apart from other lazy dark ambient acts by being a truly diverse piece, replete with details upon details to make the illusion complete, and haunting compositions to make the mind yearn.
credits
released 02 December 2009 
www.atriumcarceri.com 

Produced, Composed and Mastered - Simon Heath

Atrium Carceri - Sub Surface

From the forthcoming album "The Word As Power".

Featuring the voice of Soriah.

Grigori (Extract)

My diamond in the rough (extended version)

An extract from the forthcoming Lustmord album "The Word As Power".
Featuring the voice of Maynard James Keenan.

Abaddon (Extract)

Sephiroth - The Call of the Serpent

https://www.youtube.com/user/niceggg
Dark Ambient The Inner Devil - Black Sunset

Dark Ambient The Inner Devil - Black Sunset

Raison d'être formed in 1991 as a tool of expression with the goal of self-realization. Behind the project is the highly respected and multitalented sound artist Peter Andersson. For almost two decades now, and with a vast number of CD releases on the Cold Meat Industry label, raison d'être have been supplying listeners with overwhelming dark ambient industrial landscapes of beauty and sorrow. Listening to raison d'être is like a lucid journey into the dark hidden domains of your inner self. But this is not all. Peter Andersson host not only one but up to nine other projects representing different sides and sounds of the Andersson character. The most well known except for raison d'être are Stratvm Terror, Necrophorus, Bocksholm and Atomine Elektrine.