
:: M.W.'S WORDS ::
Praise 'Bob'!
1) Omnimantia EP released! If you wish, get yours via the instructions on the 'Encounter' page on the Aarni website. The price of the CDR has been set to 8 euros inside the Europa Fort and 9 euros for the rest of the planet. The prices include shipping by Air Mail.
Yes, we decided to call Omnimantia an EP as the total playing time clocks at 56 minutes, while decency dictates the minimum length for a LP as 60 minutes...
Obviously no booklet included with this one, but you can find the lyrics at the Aarni website as usual.
Also a special feature: every copy of Omnimantia will feature unique handwritten liner doodles by Yours Truly, who also accepts your requests as to their content. In other words, every copy will be different from the next and worth a fortune in the future. Pimp my EP and laugh all the way to the bank!
The tracklist:
1. Rat King [this song has it all: 16th century Prague, rats, a golem, Dee and Kelley, pwning Christians and death metallish clamour]
2. Dimwa Depenga [a mellow tune sung in Ouranian-Barbaric, the ritual language mostly used by practioners of Chaos Magick. Expect to be "healed".]
3. This Is Not A Mask [a charming, thought-provoking mishmash of parts. Like it myself...]
4. Hypnagogia [here's a personality test. You can learn much about yourself from the reaction this true-to-the-title freestyle tune causes in you. Are YOU a mediocretin or a glorious starfaring futant?]
5. "Untitled" [Skepticism cover song of the fourth track from their Farmakon album. Aarni's version features lyrics from the German online edition of Principia Discordia amongst musical scatomadness. The original version of this track appeared on Entering The Levitation Skepticism tribute album.]
6. Verivaikerrus / Hurmehanki [Thergothon cover song, orig. Crying Blood / Crimson Snow. Aarni's version has the lyrics translated into Finnish. The original version of this track will appear on the upcoming Thergothon tribute album by Solitude Productions.]
7.
Lovecraft Knew [an original Aarni song from the forthcoming Lovecraftian cosmic horror theme album.]
Note: the last three tracks have been mastered exclusively for
Omnimantia and so sound more or less different than the versions appearing on the tribute releases mentioned above. Also note that Aarni wages war against the loudness war, meaning that you should crank up the volume on your player a bit, because we have applied only light compression at the mastering stage to preserve the natural sound and dynamics of the musical instruments used on the record. And just like in the good(?) old days, the overall volumes of the tracks may differ somewhat from each other. Aarni has painstakingly done all this just to let you know we care!
2) In related news, the release date of
Umbra Nihil's arthritis-inducing second album
The Borderland Rituals has been set to Nov 18th 2008. Visit the
band's and/or
Epidemie Records' website for further gossip.
Gimme slack or kill me,
Mahatma Warjomaa
IN:
-Pope Pete's latest book
-Mysteries
-Quality literature
OUT:
-The loudness war
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