MERCHANDISING
For the first time since the Officium Tenebrarum releases new Elend t-shirts have been manufactured.
2 motifs, limited to 100 copies each, are now available. Please refer to the Orphika webshop.

1997's Weeping Nights has been added to the available items as well.

WINDS CYCLE VINYL EDITION
Please note that the vinyl editions of the Winds cycle albums have been cancelled.

NEW PROJECTS
2 demo pieces (recorded in 2000, mastered in 2008) from Renaud Tschirner's project Redbird are available on the Redbird Myspace page:
www.myspace.com/redbirdofficial
Elend fans will discover another, more soothing side to A World in Their Screams vocalist Laura Angelmayer. Founded by Tschirner in 1999, Redbird revealed Angelmayer before she took part in the Elend adventure. After a hiatus of several years devoted to Elend, work on a full-length Redbird album was finally resumed earlier this year and new recordings have been in progress ever since.

Iskandar Hasnawi is currently composing and recording for Ensemble Orphique's first album. Sessions have been planned at Studio des moines for early 2009 in the hope of having all music composed and recorded by the end of this year. Present core line-up is Iskandar Hasnawi, Esteri Rémond, Alexandre Geus. Session musicians will also participate in the recording.
www.myspace.com/ensembleorphique

Although we all need to focus on less heavy-weight projects for the time being, a further collaboration of Elend's main protagonists is intended at some indefinite future date. A considerable corpus of unreleased, almost finished Elend pieces originally written and recorded for Elend's Winds cycle (mostly the vocals are missing) awaits completion and final mixing. They will be issued eventually, either as Elend releases or as part of an Elend-related project. We will keep you informed.

Thank you for your continued interest in our work.

Reviews in English:
Lords of Metal
Kogaionon
Imhotep

in French
Obskure
The French Touch
Thrashocore

in German:
Vampster
Metal.de

The album was also reviewed in the following magazines:

Terrorizer (UK) 172
"... From the (bonus) opening 'Overture' through the centrepieces tumultous violence
to methodical reduction towards transcendent silence and, ultimately, finis,
this staggering document is most certainly a dark masterpiece of late 20th Century interpretative composition." (John Mincemoyer)
10/10

THE UMBERSUN RE-RELEASE

The Umbersun / Au tréfonds des ténèbres is officially being reissued as a 10-year
anniversary edition by ORPHIKA, a division of NOEVDIA (ref. orph01).
 


ELEND have secured a worldwide license deal (excluding Poland) between SonyBMG UK, 
owner of recording rights, and ORPHIKA.
This edition, which was carefully remastered by ELEND, will feature the original
artwork (refused by Music for Nations at the time) and a bonus track recorded during
the same sessions and initially intended for a limited edition which was never
released. The album will be available as digipak CD and double vinyl LP. Release
date for both editions will be April 21, 2008.

We take this opportunity to call to your attention the fact that in early
2007 Metal Mind Productions (Poland) released The Umbersun in a digipak version for
the Polish market only. Please note that this Polish version, though legal, was done
without consulting or informing ELEND in any way. This edition is not remastered, it
does not contain the bonus track and the artwork featured was merely scanned from
the Music for Nations jewel case edition without access to the original layout
files. We hereby officially distance ourselves from this unprofessional edition that
was done without our consent while we were negotiating our own license agreement. 

Best regards to you all, 

Iskandar Hasnawi, Sébastien Roland, Renaud Tschirner / ELEND

Release dates:
AWITS was released in France yesterday, but the release date for the rest of Europe had to be postponed to May 7th.

A World in Their Screams was finally completed after two years of hard work, delays and postponements.

The track-list is as follows:

• Ophis puthôn
• A World in Their Screams
• Ondes de sang
• Le Dévoreur
• Le Fleuve infini des morts
• Je rassemblais tes membres
• Stasis
• Borée
• La Carrière d'ombre
• J'ai touché aux confins de la mort
• Urserpens

Contrary to previous announcements A World in Their Screams will be the last album of the Winds Cycle.

The album will be released on April 23, 2007 through HOLY RECORDS (France) and PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS (rest of Europe), and on May 22, 2007 through ORPHIKA (USA & Canada) in a luxurious digisleeve (Europe) / digipak (America) edition. Furthermore, a limited double LP edition on heavy-weight vinyl with booklet will be released through ORPHIKA (500 units).