Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Death Party UK Black Train.




Our good friend Trev Bamford (Nightbreed Recordings, Nightbreed Radio, Every New Dead Ghost, Midnight Configuration) has a new side project. Turn this up!

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Crowdsourcing the Mythosphere - Modern Mythology - let's Each MAke Our Own Damn Kvlt!


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

Modern Mythology grew out of Mythos Media, which released the Veil of Thorns - Cognitive Dissonance album back in 2007. Well, the scope of what we do has grown and so has the cost of operating and expanding.

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 writing that many articles entails, and then consider that there were three books published already this year, and an anthology on its way. Then there’s the music, the web video series, the podcasts and much more.

Now, put yourselves under the influence of our Mind Kontrol with this video mixtape:





Here is what some of those who have contributed to our fundraiser campaign have said about this project:
“Modern Mythology’s work is way too important to not support. We need this discourse. Rock on guys!” 
“You’re doing good work; I’m proud to support that.” 
“Myth is something that even our technological, interdependent and global society cannot escape. Myth can illuminate and unveil aspects about ourselves and where we are going, where we have come from. Myth, in short, is self-knowing. As an essential dimension of human experience, it would behoove us to try to contextualize myth—or more appropriately see how myth contextualizes—the modern age.” 
“You rock so hard, rocks are jello in your very presence. Neutron stars are tied neck and neck in the races. Your stuph is dense, and heavy. Keep it up. Way up.”

9 days left! We are presently running an ongoing tweet-a-thon under #myth on twitter. Listen in or join the discussion.

Even a donation of $1 gets you a free eBook and helps to keep us going.

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



Sunday, November 27, 2011

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.

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





Donate and help bring Necrofuturist media production to the next level. Free music and other media will be forthcoming.

Veil of Thorns - Faith





Video for the song "Faith", from the album "Birthed".

The album marked a transformation that formed a creative arc that completed with the release of "Necrofuturist". This release marked a new approach for Veil of Thorns, laying a foundation that we are building on to this day.

Within the tracks on "Birthed", a CD by Veil Of Thorns, you can hear parallels to industrial bands such as Pig, Razed in Black and Nine Inch Nails and, more often than not, you can hear the pure creativity of P. Emerson Williams. Anything created by this man, the brain behind Choronzon (black metal tinged with experimental, ambient and industrial edges) , you would expect to be eclectic and creative. It's his trademark. Herein you'll encounter thick, pummeling, distorted spears of electro/guitar industrial, D&B, goth, dirgey slow industrial moodiness, etc., etc., etc., etc., in fact, etcetera ad infinitum. What's persistent in Williams' smooth, creative and original fusion of various elements is the sustained tone and mood, like that of a soul resigned to nihilistic fate. None of Emerson's creations are quite like anything else, even when you're hearing touches of something else in there. His fierce originality score another point for the underground.
Review by: Kristofer Upjohn, www.chaindlk.com

Tracklist:
1 Starry Skies 4:33
2 Falling To Earth 4:01
3 Raining Down 4:35
4 bleedingacidcasualty 5:44
5 Enshroud 5:03
6 sanctify 3:39
7 Faith 3:32
8 Souls 3:54
9 In Your Goodness 6:32
10 Birthed 4:41
11 We Are 4:29



Making Music is Easier Without Musicians Being Involved... - Myke Hideous Interview




We haven't done the live thing in a while, so there have been fewer issues with musicians for years. Veil of Thorns have had many collaborators and co-conspirators over the years and we love them all.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

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 - Salon Apocalypse - Mick Mercer Review


VEIL OF THORNS
SALON APOCALYPSE
Inner-X-Musick

This where acid rock and Industrial-triphop fuse, where you try and make easy sense of it all and you lose. Worryingly, it does begin to make more sense the more you listen. The walls close in during ‘Still Bloody Action’ as the rhythm clashes with a set of vocals that make you think someone has woken Merlin. If that’s your sort of thing, read on…

Their collective lungs breathe out metal splinters in a confusing ‘Sleep, Cut And Run’ and I’m assuming that’s none other than Aidan McGoran on guitar, although it may not be, but he’s on here somewhere, and Pandora wheels away like an acid casualty cutting her safety chord on a space walk. There’s a different mood for ‘Intellectual Institutional Object’ as P. Emerson Williams rambles on like the Godchild of William Burroughs channelling Bob Dylan, offering a nice bit about ‘Devil to a half-Devil dissolve.’ Pandora’s got back into the space station and seems suitably contrite.

‘And The Beast Of The Vision Still Roams In Dream’ would appear to be a distantly observed orchestra balanced on an electricity pylon shrouded in fog. ‘Sepulchral Reminder (Torment Rose)’ brings in a solid beat as our vocal host sounds like a deranged headmaster as the sound falls in on itself, threshing wildly. (Imagine robots falling down very long stairs.) The psychedelic guitar motif that floats on high above ‘Nearer To Hell (Ideological Corpses)’ gives it all a stronger impact. At least we know we’re on Earth with a poisoned watery dance thing. ‘The Play Is The Thing’ appears to be a continuation, the guitar briefly evident before things tick into a slower, oppressive gear then disintegrates into am ambient maelstrom.

‘Nocturne’ is another thing entirely, windswept and ghostly, with some accommodating bass and fuzzy logic, all art dance friendliness. ‘Infinitude’ is a stripped down, pacey alt-rock avalanche, and ‘Seduction’ is a bit of a torch thing with Pandora waving the flaming torch a bit near your face and the music wandering into filmic horror.

‘Windows Blacked Out’ is a snatch of something mental, ambient with mumbled overlay, while ‘The Bell’ could be a rare recording of Vincent Price. ‘Autonomous Anonymous Anomalous’ returns to scuffed-up rock daubs jumbled into a cacophonous sludge. Me, I like a nice tune, so I have no idea what’s going on. ‘The Thing Is In Play’ fidgets and slithers with some dance intention or other, ‘Imagination Thieves’ is a moody vocal scene, ‘Veiled Shadows Glaze’ adding in some more vocal drama and musical swirls, before they come close to something conventional to close with ‘Soul Intervention’ sounding a bit like Red Hot Chilli Peppers spinning upside down on their heads.

We have the other two albums they’ve just released over the next two nights. To infinity and…somewhere else besides.

Veil of Thorns - Necrofuturist - Mick Mercer Review

VEIL OF THORNS - NECROFUTURIST 
Inner-X-Musick


Scarified vocals sprawl across the densely packed shuffling ‘Thought Pollution Evolution’ and you can sense there’s an eagerness to be freshly mangled, the triphop and dark atmospherics come whispering and whistling, not gnashing or self-eviscerating. No ideas what it’s about but the mood is strangely contagious. When ‘Through The Fire’ also limbo dances under the tension-free guitar barbed wire you know we’re in for some fun, and this is another unusual but invigorating track. As our relieved and seemingly addled host guides us through ‘Standing’ it’s light, engaging and gentle. Then we fall into ‘The Vandals Exquisite Corpse’ and it gets a wee bit trickier. That’s a slithery mindwarp of a thing, the sounds clattering and rustling, only for ‘The Lifeless Trio Kept Playing’ to be an idyllic segment, and ‘Wailing In Glass’ warped rockist fare pootling along, gradually dispersing into sub-atomic ambient mulch. So, the whole world is here.

A brief ‘Waltz’ verges on blistered Americana, ‘Pleasure In Nightmare’ keeps circling, bathing in its own perspiration, before an equally intoxicating ‘Giving Ascent’ digs in deftly for some dancey machinations, with a discreet sense of fun rather than flashing the rhythm around. Here we are in fertile dark indie territory, both filmic and mood-enhancing. ‘Dancing Revelation’, of course, moves away sideways, lightly aggrieved instead of inclusive. ‘Let Loose Into That Good Mourning’ is an interestingly gloomy soundscape where the machines seem to have won but find themselves down in the dumps. ‘The Reflection’ is the opposite, a lazily beautiful twilight night sky, with ‘Deny Fascination’ just as inviting, for all the disguised vocal intent. Things have got looser for a while in the VOT world and relaxation does wonders.

They do appear to be dropping slowly into the abyss for the groaning ambient doldrums of ‘The Only One Left’, like whalesong at closing time. In the skittish ‘Die As One’ it’s all very clandestine and chilled, the energy locked down tight as it bustles past on an espionage-fuelled mission.
‘Entertainments Subsume Concern’ sounds like a panel show doomed to failure, and it does appear to sound like a repair man trapped inside a cathedral organ, trying to fight his way out.

We’re into gloopier electronic sounds as ‘Head Up Get Out’ wibbles around over a toxic bassline and we’re ushered out by ‘The Dead Channel’ which is more restrained but shadowy fare, vocals unwelcome visitors in an imposing room staffed by jazz-obsessed ghosts.

Definitely one of the weirder Veil Of Thorns offerings, because of its orderly approach, and really quite lovely.

Culture Asylum Reviews SALON APOCALYPSE

From our friends at Culture Asylum Magazine....

VEIL OF THORNS - SALON APOCALYPSE

(Inner-X-Musick): How do you describe P. Emerson Williams' work when it comes to Salon Apocalypse.  It is a mixture of experimental, gothic, and industrial.    Williams' vocals are calm and pronounced and clear even dreamy in a lot of ways.  They are soothing in parts and often the music is an experiment into the mind's eye.  This is experimentation that isn't overwhelming, rather, it takes one into the realm of dreams and information.  This is a very intellectual release that is powerful each track scratching at your very soul.  There are some club elements mixed into the many layers of industrial and experimental: a true journey unlike any other in this arena.  P. Emerson Williams is a true visionary and people should take notice to quite an incredible release.  Feel the emotion and witness the the beautiful nightmare waiting for you.
Culture Asylum Magazine
March 2010

Purchase Cultural Asylum Magazine HERE

THE WALTZ (and other atrocities)

An experimental short film by visual genius Chad Michael Ward. Music by P. Emerson Williams.
THE WALTZ from Chad Michael Ward on Vimeo.
An experimental short film, shot on the Canon 7D.

Written, Shot, Directed & Edited by Chad Michael Ward
Produced by Chad Michael Ward and Geoff Flint
Additional Editing by Pearry Teo & Mary Taylor
Production Design by Geoff Flint
Makeup by Cris Alex & Miss Quinn
Music courtesy of P. Emerson Williams

Starring Asphyxia, Nickie Jean, Alexandra Mathews, Skin and Sparrow.

Copyright 2010 Teo/Ward Productions. All Rights Reserved.

Veil of Thorns - BLEEDINGACIDCASUALTY



Audio: Veil Of Thorns - Bleedingacidcasualty (from 'Birthed' CD)
Video: Ferenc

Satan's Tastemakers Episode 5


Satan's Tastemakers is dedicated to netlabels, free music, crowd funded and sourced and Creative Commons releases. Co-hosts P. Emerson Williams and TheeBradMiller socialize, wine and dine and indentify the most prolific and interesting free music outlets on the web to offer you info on the best in free music, and seek to unearth artists and labels who have found new methods for music distribution in a fertile digital media landscape.

P2P, copying and sharing is the devil's work, so therefore, we are Satan's Tastemakers!

In this era of Disney's infinite copyright, when public domain films can be pulled out again and people who should be charged with finding terrorists are raiding file sharers, it's time to let the mainstream industry wall itself off and avail oneself of the bounty offered by artists and labels who are operating in the current reality and not the previous. Spettro Records are a true collective with a well thought out philosophy and manifesto. They are more an exploration than a way to grab attention. The work they present encompasses sonic experiments along with photography, drawing and painting. Ankst are an established band in their chosen genre who decided that the art is the reason they're doing it and therefore all their art is free. We get a privileged look into their palacial facilities, but not a tour of the extensive grounds this time...
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