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.
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.]
Concise Noise Fractionale Has Landed on Soundcloud
Concise Noise Fractionale Ltd. is an independent audio collective of unsigned various artists interested in exposure through numbers.
The genres represented here are eclectic or even difficult to pigeon-hole, ranging from random noise to methodical notation, but usually it’s a combination of both. Ultimately, there are no pretenses of preferred style.
Composed by Scott Gallant & Matt Davis in 1998.
Noise End Rapture is a project best defined as Melodic Soundscape, standard musical instruments were modified. Sound-generating devices included effects pedals, samplers, and delay echoes, all of which were either cheap or cheaply rigged. A wide variety of unorthodox appliances and electronics were also miked whenever its sonancy was appropriate.
Video produced by Scott Gallant
Contributing artists:
Scott Gallant
Matt Davis
Steven Robichaud
Andy Sawyer
Devin Stevens
Allison Lahikanen
Shad Mosher
Nick Dooley
Justin Karoway-Waterhouse.Represented Projects:
Noise End Rapture
Vanish Hall
Eigenstate
This Music Sucks
Mad Shad (5H4D)
Sun Tunnel
LarvaLoon
The Cold
Ugly Things
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CNF on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/concise-noise-fractionale
CNF on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Concise-Noise-Fractionale-Ltd/109891055757673
6,000+ Downloads! Veil of Thorns – Vampire Wars
A huge thanks to those of you who have downloaded this album and sahred 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.)
Update: Grab the album on bittorrent if you prefer.
NOISE COVERED WORSHIP
INCREASINGLY BIZARRE POLITICAL THREAT RITES
PROCESS PRODUCT PROPOSITION
DE LEGE MOTUS
CREATOR-GOVERNMENT-CREATOR
A CRAVEN SLAVE DESIGN
SACRED THOUGHT OBSTACLES
DISSOCIATIVE MODIFICATIONS
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA
GRAVE PECULIARITY RECEIVED
APPARITIONS OF ART
PROGRAMMERS BELOW SIGHTS OF THE OPERATIONAL SECRET
VAMPIRE WARS
A NON-EUCLIDEAN FUTURE
Megaupload Link
Donate and help bring Necrofuturist media production to the next level. Free music and other media will be forthcoming.
Veil of Thorns – Vampire Wars (2011)
NOISE COVERED WORSHIP
INCREASINGLY BIZARRE POLITICAL THREAT RITES
PROCESS PRODUCT PROPOSITION
DE LEGE MOTUS
CREATOR-GOVERNMENT-CREATOR
A CRAVEN SLAVE DESIGN
SACRED THOUGHT OBSTACLES
DISSOCIATIVE MODIFICATIONS
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA
GRAVE PECULIARITY RECEIVED
APPARITIONS OF ART
PROGRAMMERS BELOW SIGHTS OF THE OPERATIONAL SECRET
VAMPIRE WARS
A NON-EUCLIDEAN FUTURE
Megaupload Link
Donate and help bring Necrofuturist media production to the next level. Free music and other media will be forthcoming.
Choronzon on Kicks Radio – Radio Centraal 106.7 FM Antwerp, Belgium
Many thanks to hosts Peggy and Bruno for being the first to spin a track from the forthcoming Choronzon album FIAT NOX which is out now on Amazon.com and is coming in four days to iTunes.
Choronzon - FIAT NOX (2011)
Kicks is a weekly radio show on Radio Centraal in Antwerp, Belgium specialized in various underground cultures from the whole world. On air since 1989! Kicks broadcasts every Wednesday from 20:30CET till 22:30CET.
Playlist Kicks 01/06/2011:
Abstract Spirit: Horror Vacui (Horror Vacui – Solitude Productions)
MRT: The Wait (inTERRiOR – Dark:Scene)
Choronzon: Strange Corridors (Fiat Nox – FSR)
Satanochio: The Endangered Convicted (The Endangered Convicted – Asiluum)
Norbert Krief: How does it feel (Nono – XIII Bis records)
Murw: Geen weg meer terug dus recht door zee (In de mond van het onbekende wacht een oceaan – Heidens Hart)
Pierre Labbé + 12: Lavra (Tremblement de fer – Ambiances Magnétiques)
Heavy Lord: Balls To All (Balls To All – Solitude Productions)
ABSUM: Isrevinu Ilellarap (Enoisnemid Avitagen EP – DarkEyes S-P)
Dark Confessions: Centuries of blood (Century of blood – Dark Confessions)
Matthieu Choux: Nu Descendant Un Escalier (Op. 2) (Deux Pièces – Petcord)
Framferd: Med Blottet Nakke (Satanized/Framferd/Plutonian Shore/Katari – Nocturnal Tyrants – Extreminal Productions)
Magenta Harvest: Spawn Of Neglect (A Familiar Room Demo 2011 – Magenta Harvest)
mACACO mAU: Wired (bLAST tHE cOVER-uP # a – mACACO mAU)
Check out kicksextremeradio.com where you’ll find playlists, news, info and a ton of amazing free streams and music downloads.
Go to www.radiocentraal.be to check out show schedules and stream the radio any time 24/7.
Long Live the New Goth Flesh
The armies of the dark returned last year. Really. The goth aesthetic, dark sounds, grabs tastemakers by their smug throats as silhouettes of hipsters can be seen, dancing among the graves as the world heats up and economies wobble on their precarious perches. The Quietus, Pitchfork and Stereogum are directing a surprisingly unironic gaze at artists waving an undeniably gothic banner. Post-punk is invoked in descriptions of more ‘band to watch’ blogotronic hosannas than one could reasonably keep up with. The thing about this return is that it’s news, to those of us who have stayed with the scene, that it ever went away.
A Smattering of Updates
The news about the Pirate Bay conviction has gone all over the web over the last few days, and I was asked to weigh in over at Computer Shopper magazine after which I felt compelled to expand on my thoughts. I chose to do so at the kkoagulaa blog since some of the surrounding issues are addressed pretty thoroughly in thee kkoagulaa manifestoooo.
On the Veil of Thorns front, we have decided to show our support by releasing the full Veil of Thorns back catalogue as a torrent on the Pirate Bay site. We would appreciate it if everyone reading this would download the torrent, seed it for as long as you can to keep it alive and pass the torrent along. If you have a music blog, it would be lovely if you’d post any of these releases with links back to us, to the statement on kkoagublogg and weigh in with your own thoughts.
I would love to get a conversation going about every aspect of this issue. We’re all in flux, and creativity in all things is needed more than ever.
More Cognitive Dissonance Transmissions coming later.
Torrent info:
There is a thought that occurs to me as I drive past the many gated communities in this ritzy area of Florida. I’m glad the real estate speculators, Disney executives and yuppies are walled in and kept safely from the rest of us. We just need to lock the gates from the outside. I would love to see the major labels and movie studios come up with the perfect impregnable DRM, so they can be left to rot within their walled gardens.
This time is the best possible opportunity for true artists to get creative with ways to make a living. Under the old label system, it was mainly the few, the malleable, the aspirational among artists who benefitted. The RIAA argument that piracy hinders artists from making a living is bollocks. Music has always been a hard gig, it’s just that now the majority are on the treadmill of writing, production, release and touring for themselves instead of a group of suits who lend them cash in return for the artists indenture.
This torrent was created to show dissent with the ruling, and in the spirit of freedom, that creative chaos which hidebound institutions fight with the impulse for stasis and death.
-P. Emerson Williams
Location:
In the Space Between Space
Current Members:
P. Emerson Williams – (Choronzon, Network, Nocturne, Voyager, Lead Reign) – Vocals, Guitar, bass, cello, keyboards, programming
James Curcio – (Babalon, subQtaneous) – Drums
Ruddy Bitch – Drums, Electronic Soundwaves, percussive Manipulations
Former Members:
Catherine Chenoweth – (Smack Tan Blue) – Bass
Jarrett Laitinen – (Twentytwo Fourties) – Guitar
Peter Wagner – Violin
Christopher McClain – (Theatre, Cheryl’s Twitching Limbs, Amateur Bondage, Byzantine Slave Drug, Perma-Grin) – Bass, keys, sequencing, programming
Releases:
Demo 1991 – Cassette – Remastered 2008
Study In Decay Demo – Cassette – 1992
Legemet Og Stemmen Demo – Cassette – 1993
Lust Beyond Flesh 7» ep – 1994
Cafe Flesh CD – 2002
Birthed CD – 2002/2006
Legemet Og Stemmen Demo Remastered CD – 2006
Manifestation Objective CDR/Online Release – 2005 – Remastered Edition + Bonus Tracks 2009
Cognitive Dissonance CD – 2007
The End of the Beginning – First album sessions 1992 – Remastered 2008
The Dead God Sessions CD – Second lineup album sessions 1996 – Remastered 2008
Live WMFO 1991 – Fall 2008
Live Halloween 1992 WMFO – Fall 2008
Bats in the Belfry 1994 Live – Fall 2008
Salon Apocalypse – Winter, 2009
The book will be out in the Summer of this year so if you know there’ll be a release, with title, for late 2008 release please include that.
URL’s:
veilofthorns.com/blog
mythosmedia.net – Label
alterati.com/blog – James Curcio, Managing Editor, P. Emerson Williams, contributor
Initially the intention was to play dark Jazz with electronic/industrial and orchestral elements. This vision has yet to be realized, obviously. The world of Jazz rejoices.
Music For Driving At Night
Nobody asked me to, but I haven’t thrown out a random music podcast in a while, so I thought a little something for this fine evening might be aiight.
This is a collection of some of the music I have composed thus far in 2008. Everything in this podcast was created for the audiobook of Fallen Nation which is being podcast on Alterati.com.
In coming up with soundtrack music, I work in a wide array of styles, which is extremely rewarding, creatively. What the narrative calls for takes me outside my habitual sonic territory and forces me to rethink my approach every time.
I’d like to know what y’all think about this little cross section. It’s a small amount of recent work, but an eight hour file is a lot to ask any one to listen to.
New Veil of Thorns album is well on its way and big plans. More on that later.
http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf
| p_emerson_2008_mix.mp3 | 2008-Jan-27 02:54:53 | 51.3M | audio/mpeg |
| p_emerson_2008_mix.ogg | 2008-Jan-27 03:01:50 | 45.2M | application/ogg |
| p_emerson_2008_mix_64kb.mp3 | 2008-Jan-27 02:58:35 | 25.6M | audio/mpeg |
Veil of Thorns – Veil of Thorns 1991
An exchange with someone writing a book on goth brought up the fact that I had, through odd circumstances and band personnel issues, I no longer had a copy of the debut Veil of Thorns demo, nor was the dat tape with the mixdown in my possession no longer. (“How you musicians can let things like this happen, I don’t understand” said he.) That led me to dig through 4 and 8 track master tapes to see what I still had. No longer having the equipment to play this stuff, I had to do some serious beatmapping and quantizing, but left rehearsal complex ambientia, artifacts and tape quirks.
The debut demo from Veil of thorns, recorded on primitive equipment in a basement rehearsal complex in Boston. Instrumental tracks were recorded all at once on two tracks using two ribbon mikes and a direct line for Ruddy Bitch, leaving the other two for vocals and a couple additional guitars.
the noise of other bands can be heard at quiet moments.
http://www.archive.org/flow/FlowPlayerLight.swf
Lineup:
P. Emerson Williams – Guitar, Vocals
Jarrett Laitinen – Guitar
Catherine Chenoweth – Bass
Ruddy Bitch – Drums
Tracks:
Void
Utopia
Tear the Cities Down
Sanctify (Drowning)
No Claim
Dreamshadow (Falling)
Re-Creating Space-Time
Crimson Smile
Nod
| Whole Item | Format | Size |
| VeilOfThorns-VeilOfThorns1991_64kb.m3u | 64Kbps M3U | Stream |
| VeilOfThorns-VeilOfThorns1991_64kb_mp3.zip | 64Kbps MP3 ZIP | 30 MB |
| VeilOfThorns-VeilOfThorns1991_vbr.m3u | VBR M3U | Stream |
| VeilOfThorns-VeilOfThorns1991_vbr_mp3.zip | VBR ZIP | 149 MB |
| Audio Files | VBR MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_01-Void | 19 MB | 5.4 MB | 3.8 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_02-Utopia | 17 MB | 5.3 MB | 3.4 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_03-Tear_The_Cities_Down | 18 MB | 5.7 MB | 3.5 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_04-Sanctify_[Drowning] | 20 MB | 6.6 MB | 4.0 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_05-No_Claim | 12 MB | 4.1 MB | 2.5 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_06-Dreamshadow_[Falling] | 22 MB | 6.2 MB | 4.4 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_07-Re-Creating_Space-Time | 15 MB | 5.3 MB | 2.9 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_08-Crimson_Smile | 22 MB | 7.3 MB | 4.3 MB |
| Veil_of_Thorns_-_09-Nod | 5.1 MB | 1.7 MB | 1.0 MB |
Veil of Thorns: Back Catalog
Veil of Thorns: Back Catalog
Releases:
Demo 1991 – Cassette – Remastered 2008 (Last.fm, torrent, buy)
Study In Decay Demo – Cassette – 1992
Legemet Og Stemmen Demo – Cassette – 1993
Lust Beyond Flesh 7» ep – 1994
Cafe Flesh CD – 2002 (Last.fm, torrent, buy)
Birthed CD – 2002/2006 (Last.fm, torrent, buy)
Legemet Og Stemmen Demo Remastered CD – 2006 (Last.fm, buy)
Manifestation Objective CDR/Online Release – 2005 – Remastered Edition + Bonus Tracks 2009 (Last.fm, torrent)
Cognitive Dissonance CD – 2007 (Last.fm, direct download, buy)
The End of the Beginning – First album sessions 1992 – Remastered 2008 (Last.fm, torrent, buy)
The Dead God Sessions CD – Second lineup album sessions 1996 – Remastered 2008 (Last.fm, torrent, buy)
Live WMFO 1991 – Fall 2008 (Last.fm, buy)
Live Halloween 1992 WMFO – Fall 2008 (Last.fm, buy)
Bats in the Belfry 1994 Live – Fall 2008 (Last.fm, buy)
Salon Apocalypse – Winter, 2009
CHORONZON
Incunabula Papers – Ong's Hat
PANICMACHINE
Veil Of Thorns
