Hvile I Kaos - Lower Order Manifestations
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HVILE I KAOS – LOWER ORDER MANIFESTATIONS LABEL: INVIMA RELEASE DATE: JULY 12th 2024
You have spoken to me in whispers through the watches of the night and your sibilant suggestions have accompanied me through the hours of daylight’s toil and turgid interactions with those imagine themselves to be of my kind. You have brought me visions of greater, darker, colder worlds and shown me the path to an existence weighty with meaning and portent. You have confirmed my beliefs in the insignificant vacuity of mankind’s stumbling, infantile civilisation and revealed the majesty of the void. I have given of myself; my blood, my spirit, my words and my devotion and now I am ready. I will step from the vaunted circle of life onto a path without ending, into a darkness ineffable, to follow as you lead, from here unto the end of forever.
“This collection of recorded workings is a series of invocations to eight Lower Order Spirits, as steps leading to the sacrificial altar of Moloch, the King of Fire. This is done in accordance with the practice of Sinister Magick known as Vedantic Nihilism, as outlined in the grimoire Codex Aversum by Caine Del Sol. The forces presented by these workings are those of collapse, madness, death, and decay. They have served and will continue to serve those ends to devastating effect, in real life, in real time. You have been warned.”
- KakophonixIt is 13 years since cellist, composer and explorer of secrets Kakophonix began his work of musical revelation under the banner of Hvile I Kaos…and now that journey is complete, the final votive offering rendered unto the lords of misrule. Lower Order Manifestations is a work that transcends the commonly understood barriers of genre, transposing the riffs and rhythms, atmosphere and intent of black metal into a new sonic sphere. With cello and acoustic guitar, bass, frame drums and vocal punctuations, Kakophonix has created a progressive path of rituals that lead from an awakening of passion and spirited revolution to an attainment of knowledge, a state of perfection. Through the celebratory ‘Psalmody For The Child Offering’, rife with tension, with its unnerving undercurrents that run jagged nails across the skin of human convictions and assumed proprieties, onward through the ungraspable, unknowable ‘Shadowscast’ – a darkness of substance that slips through your fingers like serpents of sand, as it blends the beautiful liquid of dreams with the fevered sweat of nightmares. From the torment and terror of ‘Panic Sun’ that undermines all you believed to be true, bringing about the collapse of certainties and understanding, to the fierce intensity of seething, dissonant aggression that is ‘Smite’…the road is long and hard, but it all leads to the breathtaking grace of ‘Verity Thy Path’, the brightness of guitars laced with the sombre reflection of the cello, an elevated state only to be found at the conclusion of the trials preceding. The final notes of Hvile I Kaos’ passage through this world could not be more perfect.
Over the years Kakophonix has contributed to the work of Abigail Williams and Imperialist, released split collections with Angmar and Northsong, performed with Whoredom Rife and Ashbringer, but nothing upon his musical odyssey can compare to the visionary unfolding that is Lower Order Manifestations. Available now on InViMa, do not allow this exposition of beauty and wisdom to slip past you in the silence that lies beneath the noise and fool’s gold of the mundane world.
Genre: Black Ritual Chamber Music
For fans of: Jo Quail | Musk Ox | Elend | Arcana Line-up:
Kakophonix - Composition, cello, guitar, bass, frame drum, vocals.
*additional vocal exhortations from Elizabeth Gore, Ø, S, Joseph Spiller, Layla Legard, Sarah Jayde, Dan Niederkorn, Ben Yehdigo, Thanatos, Nicole Day, Seth Scantlen, Cassidy Scantlen, Zola Scantlen, Iggy Scantlen, Aaron Sidell, Mauro Bernazzali.
*death whistle on ‘Panic Sun’ by Nero Atrum.
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