Song Premiere: Ekove Efrits - Public Theatre [From upcoming album: Nowhere]

The first track from the upcoming Ekove Efrits album "Nowhere" is now online and available for free streaming and download! The track, entitled "Public Theatre" is the opening track on the new album and also features guest female vocals from Megan Tassaker of the gothic doom metal band, Lycanthia.

Bandcamp link: http://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/nowhere

Ekove Efrits is an atmospheric black metal project from the musician and graphic designer Saman Nu from Tehran, Iran. The last Ekove Efrits album "Conceptual Horizon" was released on Hypnotic Dirge Records in the summer of 2011 and previous to that the digital album "Hypermnesia" was released digitally in 2010, following the debut full-length album "Suicidal Rebirth" on Possesion Records in 2008. The History of Ekove Efrits dates back to 2005.

With “Nowhere”, the fourth full-length album from Ekove Efrits, Saman shows a continual evolution in his songwriting and recording abilities, not deviating far from the sound and identity of previous Ekove Efrits albums but offering fifty-one minutes of twisted, dark, somber, and atmospheric music intertwined with harsh black metal stylistics, female vocals, and electronic/trip-hop elements, with an added cinematic and film-score like quality which has not been present to this degree in any previous Ekove Efrits album. Certainly a tour de force for this unique project, “Nowhere” will deliver a total trip for the mind and with its cinematic qualities promises to be a visual experience in addition to a sonic one!

"Nowhere" is slated for a release on Hypnotic Dirge Records in November 2013.

The full tracklisting for the new album "Nowhere" is:



01 - Intro
02 - Public Theatre
03 - Parallel Presence
04 - Blessed by Nature
05 - One Truth, One Confession
06 - Infinitesimal
07 - Metamorphosis
08 - Sword and Wound
09 - At the Gates of Oblivion
10 - Belong to Nowhere

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Song Premiere: Epitimia - Delusion I - Escapism [From upcoming album: (Un)reality 2CD]

A new track from the atmospheric black metal/post-rock band Epitimia from Saint-Petersburg, Russia is now available for free streaming and download! The track, entitled "Delusion I - Escapism" is from the forthcoming double album (Un)reality which will be released in January 2014 on Hypnotic Dirge Records in a luxurious 6 Panel digipack accompanied by a 12 page booklet.

Bandcamp link: http://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/un-reality


Band members had the following to say specifically about this track:

"Delusion I - Escapism represents an illusory world of the main lyrical hero, where he tries to live the rest of his days with his own fantasies and hopes. But this world is fragile, and the objective reality that surrounds him starts to destroy it."

The new album "(Un)reality" is a culmination of over a year's hard work for the band which has been working on an expansive and ambitious follow-up to their last album "Faces of Insanity" which was released in the summer of 2012.

This new album, which has been the subject of lots of careful deliberation and attention to detail is now recorded and the design of the artwork is in its last stage. "(Un)reality" includes lots of new innovations and interesting ideas by this eclectic post-rock, atmospheric black metal band. Tortured black metal screams alongside a progressive and experimental cacophony of sounds, even including guest saxaphone across the album from D'arcy Molan. (Guest sax player of the Subterranean Disposition album as well, released on HDR in October 2012) Epitimia continues to show tremendous growth and maturity through their years and "(Un)reality" is certainly a plateau for them so far and their most accomplished effort yet!

Artwork on this release was created by Mayhem Design from Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Mayhem Design has previously designed artwork for bands such as Paganland, The Sullen Route, Munruthel, Frozen Ocean, Aborted Fetus, and Atmosfear Magazine among many others.
You can also find them on VK.

The tracklist for (Un)reality is:



Delusion:
01 – Birth
02 - Delusion I – Escapism
03 - Delusion II – Ataraxia
04 - Delusion III – Frustration
05 - Delusion IV – Contemplation
06 - Delusion V - Post scriptum
07 - Delusion VI - Mors putativa
08 - Delusion VII – Elysium
09 – Metanoia

Illusion:
01 - A Flash Before Death
02 - Illusion I – Muse
03 - Illusion II – Oath
04 - Illusion III – Foretime
05 - Illusion IV – Reflection
06 - Illusion V – Far Away
07 - Illusion VI – Fracture
08 - Illusion VII – Catharsis
09 - Rebirth