Catch Me with Jarboe at Stella Natura: The Light of Ancestral Fires II

It has been confirmed that I shall be performing with the mighty Jarboe at Stella Natura: The Light of Ancestral Fires II later this year. I could not be more excited and honoured. I hope to see as many of you as possible. Tickets for this amazing experience are bound to sell out quickly, so don’t wait too long to book them.

Buy Tickets: http://www.ancestralfires.org/get-tickets/

Three days and three evenings of music located in the Sierra Nevada’s Tahoe National Forest Desolation Wilderness: September 20–22 2013

Stella Natura: The Light of Ancestral Fires II will be held at Shinnyboo Creek Resort in the high Sierras, in the heart of Tahoe National Forest. This 160 acres of private property is lush with greenery thriving around every bend, with towering pines shading the trails and paths that lead you to the south fork Yuba River rushing over rock formations into gushing waterfalls and tide pools.

Expect over 30 bands spanning the musical spectrum from folk to doom to experimental. The confirmed lineup includes…

Alderbaran
Amber Asylum
Cauldron Black Ram (AU)
Common Eider, King Eider
Esoteric (UK) (FIRST US PERFORMANCE!)
Fire + Ice (UK)
Ionophore
Jarboe
Kinit Her
Loss
Munly & The Lupercalians
Rose Croix
StarGazer (AU) (FIRST US TOUR!)
Velnias
Wardruna (NO) (FIRST AND EXCLUSIVE US PERFORMANCE!)
Worm Ouroboros

Tickets limited to 500.

There will also be a pre-fest show in Nevada City on the 19th, keep checking back for more information on that…!

Vendors and booths include: Pesanta Urfolk, Hex Magazine, The Ajna Offensive, Eternal Warfare, Asatru Folk Assembly, David V. D’Andrea

Presented by Pesanta Urfolk
In association with Atlas Custom Cabinets, Hex Magazine, and Holy Mountain Printing

CHORONZON – ///CONSUMMATION//\\METANOIA\\\ (2012) PANICMACHINE

CHORONZON – ///Consummation//\\Metanoia\\\ Is Available From PANICMACHINE

With the cancellation of the Nachtmystium/Jarboe tour I did what I do in most situations, I took the great musical energy generated from learning and playing the amazing Jarboe, SWANS, World Of Skin tracks we were to perform and write new music. I recruited my good friend BALEYYG, who directed me through the material of the live set and long time collaborator and valued brother in art Ferenc Teglas to add their creative genius and gave them a week to do it.

This album is the result and it’s one hell of a dense and dark experience to rise from such a spontaneous burst of energy and creativity. I thank my brothers of dark art for blasting open the gateways between worlds on these songs.

The coming year will bring at least two East/West Choronzon releases, the first being Escape From Nullworld and then a Choronzon East/West revisiting of MKCCCXXXIII, an earlier version of which about twenty thousand of you grabbed from Megaupload before they got shut down.

11/05/2012 – As they round out the twenty-sixth year mark in their career, experimental Industrial Blackmetal act CHORONZON continue to build on an ever expanding palette with their most varied, unusual and harrowing release to date.

Just in time for the apocalypse and completed as a major storm makes landfall on the US East Coast comes a new album from the chaotes of Choronzon. The Consummation of metanoia is the pain of the psyche growing into new states of being. The Consummation of metanoia is the overwhelming transcendence even of healing to a transformation beyond the human to the essence of being human. A joyful opening to psychosis as means of preparation for easier adaptation. An embrace of fragility as a way to feel the full force of one’s strength.

With ///Consummation//\\Metanoia\\\ Choronzon completes a creative and narrative arc that began with Ziggurat Of Dead Shibboleths. The code of esoteric insight broken, freedom declared under cover of night and now the mind is transformed and chakreas are open. This album is the Veil of Maya lifting as the inner being is revealed after many lifetime’s of journey through war and illusion.

Choronzon are opening up to yet another set of unexplored worlds on this, featuring electric standup bass, keys and percussion from Ferenc Teglas and the multiversal soundscapes of BALEYYG. “We gathered through astral projection to a pre-determined catacomb to generate the sounds by spectral means.” Says Choronzon chaote P. Emerson Williams on the process of creating ///Consummation//\\Metanoia\\\. “Between the three of us we really tapped into multiple streams.” declares Ferenc Teglas. “I got to experience the 333 current as a whispering voice in the distance. This is a very unique album.” Says BALEYYG.

///Consummation//\\Metanoia\\\ is released by PANICMACHINE and will be available from iTunes and other major digital retailers in December. Look for a book that completes and sums up the trilogy to come later this month along with a DVD version of ///Consummation//\\Metanoia\\\.

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///CONSUMMATION//\\METANOIA\\\ Track List:

1. Transversion Of The Three Worlds
2. System Uncertainty
3. Open Wide The Door
4. The Decay Of Control
5. Procession Of Underworld Multitudes
6. Luminous Apparition
7. Uncovering
8. Cognitive Execution
9. Balances Of Vision
10. Tiphareth

http://digital.panicmachine.com/album/consummation-metanoia

Watch and download the ///CONSUMMATION//\\METANOIA\\\ full length video:

(Contact for password and/or digital promo or log into Promonetics for full promo access to PANICMACHINE releases.)

http://www.panicmachine.com/

http://choronzon.org/

SLEEPCHAMBER WAZ HERE...

Reblogged from MAGICKMUSICK23:

I Started SLEEP CHAMBER in early 1982. Some 30 years later I look at "current" INDUSTRIAL MUSIC sites and do not find us mentioned anywhere. Its like a bad joke...no one iz laughing. I do not do my musick or entertaining for any reason but to follow my WILL. I know the millions ov hours spent on a life time project that involved hundreds ov people.all over the world....From SOUTH AFRICA to ISRAEL...CHINA to SAN FRANCISCO...SWEDEN to DALLAS....BOSTON to LIMA,PERU....The Musickal releases just touch on 20 Vinyl releases, 30 CD/DVD releases...an at least 100 cassettes.

Read more… 537 more words

Some thoughts from the great John Zewizz on the extensive history of SLEEP CHAMBER>

Preparing For US Tour – What I’ve Been Up To

Mulch – Pencil Drawing – P. Emerson Williams – One of the many original pieces of art available on PANICMACHINE.

Over on PANICMACHINE I’ve been selling off original art at absurd prices. At the start of this sale the reason behind this could not be shared, but now enough details have been announced for me to share part of it. I will be on guitar and vocals playing with Jarbor and BALEYYG on the Nachtmystium, Jarboe and Weapon tour criss-crossing the US this coming November.

Now, the music and art has been covering basic living expenses and poast success bought me many years supply of basic art supplies. But there has been no extra. I work to buy myself more time to work. To buy myself the time away from pimping music and other projects so I can rehearse, get enough sets of guitar strings, for people who have seen me play live know I go hard, and get myself to where the tour begins and home from where it ends.

Vomiting Light – Acrylic on canvas by P. Emerson Williams – Available at PANICMACHINE

Supporters, friends and collectors have come forward and have gotten me partway there already and I’ll be posting more art even after the end of September. If you have seen a piece of mine and want it but it hasn’t been posted, get in touch. I’m ready to give better deals than ever, and buying several pieces will get you an even better deal.

Nachtmystium, Jarboe and Weapon tour

From tour sponsor Brooklyn Vegan:

Dates are starting to trickle out for the previously-discussed, in-the-worksNachtmystium/Jarboe/Weapon tour. Though the full tour-sched is forthcoming, a chunk of dates have been released and are viewable in handy list form below. Those dates include the previously-mentioned stop at Saint Vitus on 11/19 (tickets). BrooklynVegan is proud sponsor of the

Nachtmystium/Jarboe/Weapon jaunt. More details are on the way. If you missed it, make sure and check out the interview/new song stream with Weapon. All known dates are listed below along with the tour flyer. Nachtmystium, Jarboe and Weapon are hitting the road for a string of dates this fall surrounding Blake & Co’s appearance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin in early November. The confirmed dates have the bands in Portland, ME on 11/10 and then at Saint Vitus on 11/19. Tickets are on sale. The shows are in celebration of the Chicago band’s new LP Silencing Machine. In semi-related news, Jarboe’s old band Swans recently added some new datesincluding 10/28 at Bowery Ballroom and 10/29 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The band’s new LP The Seer is out now. All known tour dates are listed below along with a Nachtmystium video.

NACHTMYSTIUM, JARBOE, WEAPON – select 2012 DATES and Ticket Links:

11/6 @ Rocky Point Cantina, Tempe, AZ

11/8 @ Slidebar, Fullerton, CA (FREE SHOW!!)

11/9 @ DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA

11/10 @ Hawthorne Theater, Portland, OR

11/11 @ Highline, Seattle, WA

11/12 @ The Venue, Boise, ID

11/14 @ The Marquis Theatre, Denver, CO

11/16 @ Station 4, St. Paul, MN

11/18 @ The Ottobar, Baltimore, MD

11/19 @ St. Vitus, Brooklyn, NY

11/20 @ The Ironworks, Pittsburgh, PA

11/21 @ Ultra Lounge, Chicago, IL

Nachtmystium, Jarboe and Weapon are hitting the road for a string of dates this fall surrounding Blake & Co’s appearance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin in early November. The confirmed dates have the bands in Portland, ME on 11/10 and then at Saint Vitus on 11/19. Tickets are on sale. The shows are in celebration of the Chicago band’s new LP Silencing Machine.

More date TBA and we’ll be sure to keep you updated and keep an eye on Brooklyn Vegan for more details.

Brian Eno lecture

Brian Eno lecture from vedomstvo on Vimeo.

Brian Eno lecture, Moscow 2011

P. Emerson Williams 2012 Writings Goth Edition

As the dates on posts will show, I have neglected this blog for most of 2012 thus far. I have been doing tons of work behind the scenes at Inner-X-Musick and the new label PANICMACHINE and I have been writing. Here’s a quick rundown of what I scribbled for Dominion Magazine in the first half of this year:

The Valley Of The Shadows And Beyond – An Interview With She Wants Revenge

She Wants Revenge

She Wants Revenge made a big impact with their eponymous debut album just a couple short years after their formation. This kicked off years of hard work, both on the road, and in the studio bringing them to audiences far beyond what a post punk/darkwave act can usually expect to reach. In interviews She Wants Revenge‘s core duo of Justin Warfield and Adam Bravin show very eloquently their love of and passion for music and the artists that inspired them. What grows out of this inspiration is an organic bloom that is very much their own.

Valleyheart is a love letter from She Wants Revenge to San Fernando Valley where they grew up. Not everyone could write so lovingly about the place they came from, so I wonder if this love for their roots is something they arrived at over time after travelling far and wide, or if they had this appreciation for where they came from all along. “Everything that contributed to the artists we are today”, says Adam Bravin, “we learned about while growing up in the San Fernando Valley, it help shaped who we are today. All the music, all the movies, the people, the experiences of youth, they all took place in the San Fernando Valley. We have always been in love with where we’re from and decided it would be amazing if we could make an album that would be an homage to that place and pay our respects to the place that influenced us in so many amazing ways.”

Read the rest of this massive interview here:

http://www.terrorizer.com/index.php/dominion/2012/06/07/the-valley-of-the-shadows-and-beyond-an-interview-with-she-wants-revenge

Pop Go The Witches – An Interview With Heretics

Heretics

Armed with brooding sawtooth synth bass and just enough reverb to create an expansive sonic space for their songs to unfold, Heretics bring strong songwriting uncommon in witch house. At the same time they deliver songs with an organic, dark atmosphere that is all their own. As flowers will bloom in the cracks of the most desolate parking lot, so does art in the bleakest of times. The aforementioned flower may not be a deliberate protest against the pavement, but it demonstrates eloquently the unstoppable nature of life and creation. Since their inception in 2010 Heretics have seductuve black blooms in the dark light of post-punk, synth pop and witch house. I got the opportunity to ask Heretics’ David Whiting a few questions.

Heretics have been and will continue to find themselves on the bill with many well established and popular acts including Xymox, Method Cell and the upcoming show with She Wants Revenge. I ask what the reception has been like from the audience of very popular acts. “It’s been surprisingly good actually. There’s something intrinsic to audiences in the Goth scene which you don’t get it a lot of other circles, where people are really open-minded to hearing something new.” A good thing to hear, and an encouraging contradiction to the charge of musical conservatism sometime lobbed at the goth scene. “As Heretics is the first music I’ve been involved with which fits into that scene”, David continues “it’s been really nice to have so many people listening to what you’re doing and judging on its own merit.”

Read the rest here:

http://www.terrorizer.com/index.php/dominion/2012/05/24/pop-go-the-witches-an-interview-with-heretics

Reviews:

Tongue – At the Beginning…

AF-MUSIC/Zorch Factory Records

Opening up a short release with the entire “I’m mad as hell” speach from the movie Network might be a little excessive, but the tone of defiance it sets is backed up by six high energy tracks that match the sentiment. Tongue, being from the Czech Republic, may not have seen the clip as many times as some of us in the States. Not a day goes by without one of my yank friends posting the clip. We’re mad as hell over here, but we’re taking it…

Read the entire review here:

http://www.terrorizer.com/index.php/dominion/2012/04/04/review-tongue-at-the-beginning

A Rainy Day in Bergen – S/T

AF-MUSIC

I grew up in Bergen, Norway and I can attest to their rainy days in Bergen. Many rainy days. It has been said that one day there was a surge of reports of UFO’s over the city. Upon investigation it turned out people had seen the sun showing faintly through the cloud cover. One might not expect that it is an Italian band that goes by this name, but each song would fit very well with the kind of video that has the singer declaiming head up, arms out in pouring rain.

Read the entire review here:

http://www.terrorizer.com/index.php/dominion/2012/04/04/review-a-rainy-day-in-bergen-s-t

Pwin Teaks And The Children Of The New H – Kosmische Puppen LP

Phantasma Disques

Formerly known as Pwin ▲▲ Teaks, a moniker emblematic of Witch House’s Twin Peaks fetish. Twin Peaks references are manifest in sound and image in many a Phantasma Disques endeavour, but have shown a much wider set of interests over the course of past releases. In their best moments their combination of hazy soundscapes, pulsing delays and spoken word cutups can bring to mind early experiments of Nurse With Wound or Seven From Life, though largely simpler, and easier to digest.

Read the entire review here:

http://www.terrorizer.com/index.php/dominion/2012/03/21/review-pwin-teaks-and-the-children-of-the-new-h-kosmische-puppen-lp

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION - Inverted Triangle III LP

Phantasma Disques

You drop the tab and as you feel the first lift the clockwork elves appear, pour you a drink. They chatter playfully and wind up the music box. You hear a soothing voice you can’t quite understand and then the clockwork elves seize you and open up your third eye with a long, narrow dagger. Your surroundings once so familiar that you no longer noticed any part in detail is now populated with figures of haunting and haunted glamour. Mannequins seem to be sentient and eyes of living people betray no conscious thought. There is something terrible lurking beyond vision and sound. This thing that can not be described is not a beast out of Lovecraft, nor is it the usual petty and violent criminal figures of fear. The journey into the world of Inverted Triangle III has begun.

Read the entire review here:

http://www.terrorizer.com/index.php/dominion/2012/02/01/review-mater-suspiria-vision-inverted-triangle-iii

Introducing BALEYYG and the 93A Label

Keep an eye out for a new label that has one of those rare commodities in this business: vision. The first release is from BALEYYG – a tremendous monolith  of avant-garde heaviness that has been in the works since 2010.

Those of you who have last year’s CHORONZON – FIAT NOX may hear a subtle shift in my sonic tapestry on that release. That came about in part from working so closely with Nic Le Ban on BALEYYG material. Having built a bit of a world in my creative sphere through CHORONZON, Veil of Thorns as well as adding elements of this as a spice to projects with SLEEPCHAMBER, MANES and more extensively as half of the kkore of KKAOGULAA it was very enlightening and expansive to my own art to step into someone elses singularly visionary universe.

Says the label statement:

93A is an avant-garde Atlanta record label specializing in obscure, esoteric music and sound-art. We are a small label established primarily in digital releases at this time. Limited edition eco-digi’s and vinyl rule our world…

BALEYYG is an avant-garde creative continuum evoking diverse elements of experimental and underground music projected through the canon of sound art. In it’s earliest days, BALEYYG began as a conceptual creative space of guitar blackened death doom devastations… an awakening unto the ruin and devastation of a modern world that has lost it’s way, and a wandering among the ruins of a lesser reality. Since the inception of this creative idea many years ago, it has expanded into a broader area and continues to evolve upon its own specific creative path. BALEYYG is not a “band” in the typical sense, and neither is the reference uniquely of Norse origin. The imagery and allegorical content are instead a meta-cosmic creative logos that serve as a creative vehicle for the expression of this sound-art.

Beyond this, there is a CHORONZON/BALEYYG split release in the works! You heard it here first. Keep an eye on the PANICMACHINE label for this release, which promises to be an intense sonic magick adventure.

Add and “like” these profiles to keep up with the arcane dark heaviness that is about to ensue:

http://twitter.com/#!/93a93a
http://www.facebook.com/93A93
http://www.reverbnation.com/label/93a

Strange Factories – Trailer HD

Strange Factories – Trailer HD from FoolishPeople on Vimeo.

A writer, haunted by an idea for a new story hunts for four refugee performers of a theatre destroyed in a mysterious fire.

He locates his friends in a remote, pagan settlement founded by Stronheim; owner of a Strange Factory hidden deep in the local countryside that emits an infamous Hum.

Victor enters into a dangerous pact when a vow is made to re-build their theatre if the story is completed in time for it to be performed at the village festival, where bizarre rituals are enacted by the Villagers under the influence of a hallucinogenic effluence siphoned out of the Strange Factory.

Victor’s imagination and the fragmented memories of his friends collide in a violent fiction that not everyone can survive.

Strange Factories’ is an immersive feature film; a uniquely powerful and original project that fuses cinema with a dreamlike environment to create an experience like no other.

Principal photography on Strange Factories was completed in Prague and the UK in October 2011 and is currently in post-production with release scheduled for 2012.

http://www.foolishpeople.org
http://www.facebook.com/strangefactories
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2150487/

Just Published: Apocalyptic Imaginary: 1st Edition!

Aiight, getting back into the swing of things here… there are many things a-brewin’ in the background, some of which you’ll know is a created experience brought to you by me and teams of which I am part. Some things you will not know you are into until you’re deep down the hole…

Instead of a huge, rambling monster of a post, I’ll begin with the latest. One of the many projects coming this year from Modern Mythology is now published. Hot on the trail of The Immanence of Myth, we bring you a companion work gathered and edited from the writings that were posted to ModernMythology.net in the course of 2011. Here you’ll find a distillation and thorough analysis of the stories being told now, as well as insights into and dissection of the methods and nature of how we understand these stories and how we create our own on a personal and cultural basis.

So saith co-author and editor James Curcio:

I’m happy to announce that the 1st print edition of Apocalyptic Imaginary is now available. You can order it direct or on Amazon. ($18) It is also available on Kindle. ($2.99)

I just got my copies of this, and it looks nice. There are a few very minor aesthetic tweaks that I intend to make for the 2nd edition, but none of them are things that would probably even be noticed by most readers.

More about this book:

“This book captures and expands upon the unique commentary and analysis that has helped define the Modern Mythology project in 2011. Through the voices of many contributors, we collectively take a hard look at the blurred lines between narrative and truth, philosophy and literature, personal history and cultural memory. All of this is done with an eye towards the imagined apocalypse that is always just around the corner.“
Authored by James Curcio, Edited by James Curcio, Edited by Michael Tesney, Authored with Peter Emerson Williams, Rowan Tepper, Mr VI, Rusty Shackleford, David Metcalfe, Wes Unruh, Gunther Sonenfeld, Doctor Adventure, and Brian George.

Seriously, check this one out. Whether you’re a writer, artist, musician, or just curious about how your ideas play into the world you live in, this book should give food for thought for years to come.

This book will be featured in the upcoming class at SUNY Binghamton, “The Apocalypse of Love.” Also, if these subjects herein interest you and you’d like a deeper look, check out The Immanence of Myth, published by Weaponized this past September.

[Check out some of the books, albums, and soon movies produced by Mythos Media and our various media partners.]

Update-O-Rama – Counting Down the Days of November 2011

Just a quick note that might end up long on a few things going on, completed and just starting. First off:

Inner-X-Musick Iz Back!!!

We have Choronzon – Ziggurat of Dead Shibboleths, Veil of Thorns – Necrofuturist, Veil of Thorns – Salon Apocalypse available on CD again and more coming. Watch out for Choronzon – FIAT NOX on CD and a brand new releases from the infamous SLEEPCHAMBER, called SCOPOLAMINE, which includes one P. Emerson Williams among performers.

Hie thee hence to innerxmusick.com and check it out.

Veil of Thorns – Vampire Wars Is Now Available On CD

We have the CD of the Vampire Wars album available now for a special price of $5. You can go purchase the CD here. Soon the CD and “pay what you want” digital versions will be made available through Inner-X-Musick.

8,632 Downloads and counting! Veil of Thorns – Vampire Wars

A huge thanks to those of you who have downloaded this album and shared it with fiends & foes. We’re proud to find that as of this week, more than 6,000 of you have downloaded it. (Not counting the music blogs and Russian file sharing sites. They use their own uploads and we have no way of knowing how many downloads, or even how many sites are hosting this release by now.)

Of course, the free download option will continue to be available for as long as the sites and trackers hosting them exist.

Megaupload Link

Torrent Link

And in a related note:

There is a brand new Veilofthorns.com

Nattehimmel Sound & Vision

Will be Distributing several releases, including selections from the Veil of Thorns and Choronzon back catalogues. What is most notable is their incredible selection of out of print and rare Industrial and experimental musick releases on CD, vinyl, cassette and DVD.

Modern Mythology Are in the Midst of a Year-End Fundraiser

Observant readers may have noticed me mentioning this before. Right now I’m in the process of tweeting every one of the 300+ articles that have run on modernmythology.net in 2011. Think of how much work that entails, and then consider that there were three books published already this year, and an anthology on its way. Then there’s the music.

[Check out some of the books, albums, and soon movies produced by Mythos Media and our various media partners.]