THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH 2XCD - UPDATE

THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH approaches realisation.
The layout has been submitted and the final audio masters should be in Jason's hands by next week, which means the album will be getting pressed fairly soon.
The boxed edition will follow sometime later for logistical reasons. I've received several inquiries regarding preorders, but please direct all questions about this release to Jason, as it is being released by MALIGNANT and not me.
As far as I know, there are no plans at present for preorders.

I have to finish assembling copies of [NTT.FINAL PHASE] and I'm too bogged down with old unfulfilled orders to take anyone else's money for new orders.
I hope/plan to have all this shit out of the way by the end of February and then I'll be able to forge ahead with new releases and - maybe - start taking individual orders again.

NTT. THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH 2XCD
The final and definitive double CD release from NTT, THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH chronicles one man's journey into a world devoid of light or hope. This is a place where the air is alive with the stink of pain and the beating of great black wings. The two discs compile material from a slew of limited releases from 2005-2007, as well as newer tracks recorded specifically for this release. THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH includes collaborations with various stalwart members of the NTT priesthood and more recent recruits, from AUTOCLAV 1.1 to CENOTYPE, COVET, FRAGMENT KING, and M SLAGLE.
Packaged in a two-tray DVDigipak with layout and artwork by Leech and Jorden Haley (www.karbine.com), this release is a fitting funerary rite for NTT.

A LIFE OF CONSTANT STRUGGLE

Another release from THEOLOGIAN is being conceived.
Echoing from the deepest shafts within a doomed soul comes A LIFE OF CONSTANT STRUGGLE, the forthcoming cassette release from THEOLOGIAN on DANVERS STATE RECORDINGS. Four tracks of insolently simplistic industrial agony from the lightless world beyond the schism.



http://danversstaterecordings.blogspot.com

I SAT BEAUTY DOWN IN MY LAP, AND I FOUND HER GALLING

The first tracks by THEOLOGIAN for the forthcoming split release with APHELION are taking shape.
Chris from APHELION told me today that he also has material in the works. I'm actually pretty excited about this.
The title will be I SAT BEAUTY DOWN IN MY LAP, AND I FOUND HER GALLING, which is adapted from a passage from Rimbaud's A SEASON IN HELL. I found this fitting, since I have been experiencing my very own season in hell of late.
Each project will contribute four tracks, with a ninth piece driving the point home by way of an extended collaboration track bearing the album's name.
I've been working on the layout, and wanted to share a preview:



It seems that MALIGNANT RECORDS will in fact be releasing CHARTING THE SCHISM, the debut 5 track ep from THEOLOGIAN, but no release date has been set. At the moment there are other priorities, and we're making a big push to prepare NTT's THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH double cd, and the accompanying boxed edition and assorted items to be contained therein, to have it out in time for the first live appearance of THEOLOGIAN at DIGITAL FERRET in Philadelphia on February 27.

I will make a short run of limited THEOLOGIAN cdrs specifically for sale at this show, entitled PERSONA/INJURY.



This will consist of two very minimal tracks, espousing abysmal misery.

TWO HEARTS BOUND FOR HELL

FEBRUARY 27, 2009
DIGITAL FERRET PRESENTS
TWO HEARTS BOUND FOR HELL

C E N O T Y P E
http://www.cenotype.com
T H E O L O G I A N
http://www.annihilvs.org/GASH_THEOLOGIAN

DIGITAL FERRET
732 S. 4TH STREET • PHILADELPHIA, PA
http://www.myspace.com/digital_ferret

FREE ADMISSION • 6-10PM • ALL AGES
THEOLOGIAN @ 7.45
CENOTYPE @ 8.45

MALIGNANT RECORDS ON NEUROBEAT RADIO

Tonight: Dark Ambient / Industrial from Malignant Records only @ Neurobeat Radio 07.00 pm EST

Tonight at the Tenebrae Vision, pure Dark Ambient / Industrial Sound, fom the Kult- Label Malignant Records...

with Bands like Iron Halo Device, Jarl, Navicon Torture Technologies, Ex.Order, Stratvm Terror, Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester, Megaptera, Caul & Kirchenkampf, Yen Pox etc ...

07.00 pm EST

http://www.neurobeat.org/RadioLinks/listen.pls

IN THE FOLDS OF THE FLESH

During the past several weeks, I have been working on remixes and collaboration tracks for YOUR SUFFERING WILL BE LEGENDARY, and now have 13 tracks in various degrees of completion. One track in particular has held my attention over the last few days, and while it is not finished by any means, something about the way it sounds at this moment is having a particular impact on me. In its simplicity, the profound sadness contained within is resonating in some very deep corner of my self.
Maybe it's because it seems to so perfectly capture the way I have been feeling during the past month. I do have to say that the impact of this track is due in large part to the efforts of my collaborator, Kristoffer Oustad, of KRISTOFFER NYSTRÖMS ORKESTER and V:28, and I anxiously await his next contribution to the track.
More information on his endeavours can be obtained here:
http://www.myspace.com/knoprojekt
http://www.myspace.com/v28band

What little memory I have of the film IMMORTAL BELOVED is confined to a single conversation where Beethoven is quoted as having said something to the effect that music is the only artform in which the artist can place the audience in the exact frame of mind in which he finds himself. I've always liked that notion.

Therefore, I feel compelled to share this unfinished piece with you, my captive audience...

YOUR SUFFERING WILL BE LEGENDARY

YOUR SUFFERING WILL BE LEGENDARY is a 2 CD companion to THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH, the final double album from NTT, coming soon from MALIGNANT RECORDS. Consisting of 16 collaboration tracks and remixes, these two discs boast a tracklist featuring phenomenal artists both obscure and infamous, who have joined forces with NTT to construct an epic of undulating drones and visceral screams.
Once again, NTT blurs the lines between the brutish intensity of power electronics and introspective dark ambient contemplations.
A harrowing journey across a bleak internal landscape of broken emotions and romantic tragedy, this release will only be available as part of THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH limited boxed edition.

Featuring:

AUN
www.myspace.com/martindumais
AUTOCLAV 1.1
www.myspace.com/autoclav
THE BIRD CAGE THEATER
www.myspace.com/thebirdcagetheater
BLACK SUN
www.myspace.com/legionofblacksun
CENOTYPE
www.myspace.com/cenotype
COVET
www.myspace.com/daemontia
DEUTSCH NEPAL
www.myspace.com/deutschnepal
EIDULON
www.myspace.com/eidulon
FRAGMENT KING
www.myspace.com/fragmentking
HECATE
www.myspace.com/hecate
INSWARM
www.myspace.com/inswarm
JARBOE
www.myspace.com/thelivingjarboe
KNO
www.myspace.com/knoprojekt
THE [law-rah] COLLECTIVE
www.myspace.com/darkambient
STEVE MOORE
www.myspace.com/stevemoore2600
PROMETHEUS BURNING
www.myspace.com/pr0metheusburning


THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH - LIMITED BOXED EDITION

100 COPIES INCLUDING:

NTT. THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH 2XCD
NTT. YOUR SUFFERING WILL BE LEGENDARY 2XCD
2 (TWO) 1-inch PINS
2 (TWO) STICKERS
2 (TWO) POSTCARDS
1 (ONE) 8x10 MINIPOSTER
1 (ONE) TSHIRT

ALL HOUSED IN A 9" x 12" METAL TIN WITH ETCHED ARTWORK

Heathen Harvest review of Koerperwelten release

http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20090108230342643

Körperwelten - Avatars Of Rape And Rage
Thursday, January 15 2009 @ 12:00 AM PST
Contributed by: Perceptron

Avatars Of Rape And Rage

Artist: Körperwelten Other

Title: Avatars Of Rape And Rage

Label: Malignant Records United States

Genre: Experimental / Dark Ambient / Noise

Track Listing:

Part I - Rape

01 The Sun Destroyers
02 The Forces of Chastity are Massing once Again
03 Oestrus

Part II - Rage

04 My Heart pumps Piss for You
05 Kidney Stone of Wisdom
06 Breed for Me


The awaited collaboration between Henrik Björkk and Navicon Torture Technologies / Leech has been issued on Malignant Records under the name Körperwelten. evolves between sick ambient and noisier pattern, filled with the subtleties we could await from two giants of, respectively, dark ambient and noise. The album is a 6 panel digipack with « extreme and controversial artwork » by Jonathan Canady consisting of a bloody SM-porn-snuff-movie-esque cartoon. Let's check what's in the guts of this bloody album...

Till the first track, we can feel an insane atmosphere. « The Sun Destroyers » deals with some mechanical pornographic metaphor, with a low heartbeat rhythmic getting almost ritual, lost in a void of echoed distorted breathing and haunting tones... What could be better to introduce the first part named « Rape »?

As one could expect, all sounds, rhythm and combination are quite surprising, Samples appear as well as metallic shocks, various destructions phrasing the whole... Electronic parasites appear, playing with the nerves of the listener in a crazy stereo effect. Intensity rises with some more and more distorted and abrasive sound layers, adorned with some kind of deep harmonious voices behind. A rhythmic may be identified behind, consisting of low patterns or heavy dirty beats.
An amazing track with excellent sounds...

« The Forces of Chastity » keeps on with the same ambient background, but introduces a clearer rhythmic pattern, delightfully noisy. An aggressive distorted beat begins together with a really repetitive sample phrased by lower industrial metallic sounds. Then, a wonderful transition to a siren driven rhythmic part with a martial regularity, together with a melodic bass sound, and highly dismembered noises: really massive and powerful. Also an excellent track, especially the second part of it... The combination of noise, rhythmic industrial, and ambient.

With « Oestrus », back to some rather ambient atmospheres, phrased with a deep low beat, into a maze of distant metallic gratings... When it comes to atmosphere, the terms « dark » and « anguishing » should be considered with their true meaning and import...

The « Part II - Rage » begins with « My Heart pumps Piss for You », a track following the same path as « Oestrus »: ambient atmosphere and heavy low beat. But, the increasing intensity in the middle of it rather recalls the first track. This finally reaches a noisy plateau from which hardly surfaces an intriguing and obsessing little melody... The fifth track « Kidney Stone Wisdom » takes back some ambient elements from the former tracks and distort 'em till they get unnoticed within an intensity and loudness increase... The ill-driving electronic synth sound is constantly harassed by parasites and aggressive

To close the track, a plaintive sample with a now more relaxed ambient landscape, yet but devoid of a funeral hateful atmosphere... The last track, « Breed for Me », is a short but intense outro It deals with a spasmodic distorted explosive beat surrounded by a deformed voice, the whole with a sound in the same vein as previously... And a merry happy fanfare concludes this insane trip!

« Avatars of Rape and Rage » exudes sick, dark atmosphere and a massive impression of power, even without sound walls or aggressiveness. The originality of sounds, combinations, atmospheres is striking and refreshing. The music integrates cold elements, mechanical, metallic and industrial sounds, but it's not cold, it's alive, haunted, it easily transmits a feeling of deep unease.

The tracks are perfectly liked together, play with thematic repetitions, many evolutions, intensity's changes and perfect transitions. They evolve from relatively calm noisy ambient with repetitive loops or heavy beats, anguishing sick or even melodic, harmonious parts, till slow rhythmic noise part often accompanied with increase in intensity and in sound harshness... The whole is catchy because of the perfect integration of all these contrasted elements.

Artistically achieved, it makes noise and ambient seductive to courageous newbies, without any compromise to the most demanding audience. Finally, the music doesn't reflect the cover, the artwork or the thematic: not because these would be bad or unsuitable. The music simply goes further, deeper, till setting a musical definition of hell.

A great album! Get it and wait till the next!

ANNIHILVS SITE 2009 REVAMP

I've begun a full overhaul of the ANNIHILVS webspace.
The distro section will be updated over the coming weeks.

[NTT.FINAL PHASE]

Yet another short update to announce that I've gotten the printed layouts for the [NTT.FINAL PHASE] 5 cd-r release, and have begun assembling copies.

I've got the first sold-out batch of 25 all ready to go, and have more blanks on their way so i can complete the entire run of 50, and send the other 25 to Jason at MALIGNANT RECORDS.



I apologise that this has taken so long, but it turned out to be a real pain in the ass to realise. At least the wait will end soon, and I will try to get these shipped by the end of this month.

Thanks!

CHARTING THE SCHISM

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
- Anon



Greetings from Imperial Tower, located at the heart of the eternally burning city of Dis.
This is a brief message to announce that CHARTING THE SCHISM, the debut ep by THEOLOGIAN, has been completed. a digital demo has been submitted to Jason at MALIGNANT RECORDS for his consideration. If Jason turns this release down I will be seeking a label for the project.
It will be my goal to release multiple albums on the same label as THEOLOGIAN progresses, but I am also contacting a variety of labels for the purposes of more limited, DIY releases.
At present, there are plans for a split cd or cd-r with the amazing APHELION and the previously mentioned split with BRANDKOMMANDO.

ANNIHILVS SEEKING DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION ARRANGEMENT

ANNIHILVS is seeking a digital distribution arrangement in an attempt to generate actual revenue and improve efficiency beyond the disintegrating corpus-pace at which it has been operating during the past couple of years.
I am looking to make releases from ANNIHILVS, NTT, and peripheral entities available for paid download via online aggregators who are primarily interested in and dealing with industrial/darkambient/power electronics/etc.

The first digital release I would like to make available is the debut 5 track ep CHARTING THE SCHISM from THEOLOGIAN.

If anyone can aid in this agenda, PLEASE ADD THEOLOGIAN ON MYSPACE and contact me via that profile. See screenshot for instructions.



Thank you.
- Lee

THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH-01.01.09

"...Man diminishes in a world that does not nurture him."
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot


Salutations. The new year yawns wide as a gaping maw. So many possibilities lie ahead, yet the wounds of 2008 still shine. Nurtured, open, red and unhealed. Injuries both old and fresh are indistinguishable from each other.
Typically, the turning of a new year brings hope. Certainly, with a new administration preparing to take its place in the states - one which ran on a promise of change - it would seem appropriate to prepare for a return of optimism. But i feel no such optimism. At present, I feel very little of anything, other than misery. What else is fucking new?

This post is the first attempt at re-formatting my regular updates.

NEWS:

1. THEOLOGIAN

THEOLOGIAN is a new industrial project which will take over as my primary musical focus in the absence of NTT. Plans for this project have remained a secret for some time except among a select few. I will continue with the ambient/drone metal experiments of love is nothing. as an ongoing collaborative project, but THEOLOGIAN will likely function entirely as a solo effort.



THEOLOGIAN will chronicle the development of my own personal mythology inspired by concepts introduced into the public consciousness by Clive Barker in his short novel THE HELLBOUND HEART, intertwined with ideas derived from Wayne Douglas Barlowe in his INFERNO series. These concepts have obviously been a part of certain NTT material for some time, but in a peripheral sense.
THEOLOGIAN is a continued aural exploration into the higher reaches of experience. Expressions of love and obsession, the loss of self and the corruption of the soul through addictions to carnality and temporal lusts.
Sonically, I have opted to go for a minimal approach, the first few tracks seem to have been somewhat inspired by early DIVE material.
I will eventually release these first 5 tracks on an ep called CHARTING THE SCHISM, and a split release with Polish power electronics brutarian BRANDKOMMANDO is being discussed.

2. NTT. THE GOSPELS OF THE GASH 2XCD

As previously announced, there will be a limited boxset edition for the final NTT release on MALIGNANT RECORDS. The work continues. Hopefully, this will be out by the end of this month.

3. [NTT.FINAL PHASE]

I will do my best to get this out by the end of February. I never intended it to take this long.

4. NTT. BOTTOMFEEDER

Still no word from NIL BY MOUTH when this will see the light of day, but it's entirely out of my hands now, which is always a good indicator that something will be out sooner than later.

5. UNSOUND NYC

Lots of amazing lineups in the works. The first UNSOUND show of 2009 will take place on Friday March 6. More information to come.

6. ANNIHILVS

I will try to get some of these long-awaited late orders out starting next week. I am always struggling.

Thanks for looking and listening.