Art Ov Musick - Les Vampires, XENARCH

While we continue furiously scan and catalogue the massive amount of art we're offering this month, the music is still coming. We will be making the music from P. Emerson Williams' score of all ten episodes of the classic French silent film serial Les Vampires available from PANICMACHINE Digital Music, and each digital album will include mp4 files of the (roughly) corresponding episodes.

Les Vampires is a film serial that gave us so much of the aesthetic for iconic gothic imagery its influence can not be overstated. Not a single vampire in sight, but enough mystery, twists and wickedness to fill twenty vampire novels. 

There are 10 episodes, averaging around 40 minutes each, totalling about 6 and a half hours, but much more than ten hours of music was created for this version. 

The fact that this series was shot in post WWI Paris has me pondering the urge to create, even in the midst of turmoil and chaos. the Killer Ring offered me a lot in the way of visual inspiration and coaxed sounds from me that I hadn't anticipated.
-P. Emerson Williams

The first two episodes are combined into one collection because together they are about the length of an album and the sounds of the two flow together quite well. We'll be bringing P. Emerson Williams solo compositional excursions to iTunes etc. as we proceed as well. It's just a matter of reaching that section of our ever growing list...

XENARCH - Devourers Of The Living

In other news, XENARCH have emerged from their blasphemous cloister to give us a look at the cover of their upcoming EP and they sent us rough mixes of the first two trax as well and we can only say we are blown away. This EP may even see the dark of night this month.

Coming Up: CHORONZON - Era Vulgaris Kali Yuga Edition

ERA VULGARIS remains one of the most notorious of all CHORONZON albums. The natural successor to MAGOG AGOG, their debut (we have the last remaining copies...), with a palpable alien presence throughout that snapped some necks at the time. Thee hallz ov blackmetal at the time were not fortified to handle the vibrations of this futuristic black industrial assault, but the few, the brave sought out its sounds. But even fewer heard all the tracks from the sessions for ERA VULGARIS, some of which were released in an exceedingly rare CD as LARVAE. Copies of ERA VULGARIS go for $40.00 or more, copies of LARVAE are closely guarded and held on to as are copies of the special 2xCD + book edition of PANIC PANDEMIC.

This evening we are adding the track for disc two of this the ERA VULGARIS KALI YUGA EDITION to our digital store and have opened up for pre-sales. The finishing touches are being put on the accompanying art/lyric/grimoire book for print and ebook editions. The download version directly from PANICMACHINE will contain the ebook and an extensive number of videos and pre-sale purchases of double CD and/or print book come with free download of the album and as with all CD sales this month, you get free download tickets for any of our digital releases through the end of July!

HILLS OF SEFIROTH - "Fly High The Hated Black Flag" CD

HILLS OF SEFIROTH - "Fly High The Hated Black Flag" CD $10.00 + S&H

Upon the eve of 2004's "Of Disease and Desperation", HILLS OF SEFIROTH execute the most involved release to date. Ten hymns of fierce intolerant ancient Black Metal are presented on "Fly High the Hated Black Flag", a must have for HILLS OF SEFIROTH fans! Bleed yourself dry of Purity...

NENAVIST – “Nenavist” CD

NENAVIST – “Nenavist” CD $10.00 + S&H

The debut full length of Bulgaria's NENAVIST. NENAVIST is a vision of the disintegration of the Human, a burst of instinct, a work of isolation and loathing for the man-ruin and the pathetic world of "progress". Death.

Highly-recommended for diehard fans of early BURZUM, JUDAS ISCARIOT, and ILDJARN!