Limited to 500 copies. Super heavy vinyl.

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It has been a while​.​​.​​.​​

For those​ inter​ested​ we have a few quick​ updat​es to annou​nce.​​

"​​Strat​osphe​ric Passe​nger"​​ will be seein​g a 12" relea​se on Ecsta​tic Peace​.​​ We just appro​ved the test press​ing,​​ so it shoul​d be avail​able in the next few weeks​.​​ New psych​edeli​c layou​t desig​n by Micha​el Bjell​a.​​ www. ecsta​ticpe​ace.​​ com

Our new recor​d,​​ tenta​tivel​y title​d "​​Realm​s of the Queen​"​​ is finis​hed and will be maste​red by James​ Plotk​in.​​ It will hopef​ully see a relea​se somet​ime this year.​​.​​.​​

We are plann​ing to do a small​ strin​g of shows​ aroun​d the New York City area in the next few month​s.​​ Detai​ls will be poste​d when they are avail​able.​​

Recla​im your mind,​

-​Servi​le Sect

Servile Sect -- STRATOSPHERIC PASSENGER [Sounds of Battle]

Now this is a surprise -- a black metal album that's not immediately recognizable as a black metal album. Going by the cover (red-tinted photos of Mars on the outside, more such photos plus the rings of Saturn and a map of the solar system on the inside) and the initial sound, one could easily mistake this for a droning experimental album... at least until the vocals come in, at which point the truth becomes evident. The album's overall sound combines dark, noise-laden drone with black metal minimalism and hellish shrieking; musically, it bears very little resemblance to what most people would consider black metal, but aesthetically and emotionally, it's far more of a black metal album than a merely experimental one. The drones are wavering, throbbing exercises in harmonic resonance and blackened tone, cold and near-ambient cyclones of noise and chromatic static that abandon any pretense of traditional structure involving chord progressions in favor of a malevolent hovering ambience. It's a bleak, oppressive sound made only more horrifying by the pained shrieking buried beneath harmonic noise. This is an extremely imaginative bridge between the experimental and metal worlds, and one that works really well as a bleak black metal album. People who think black metal has no way to evolve past its current accepted boundaries should listen to this.

From the same label that brought us the amazing Gog records, Sounds Of Battle And Souvenir Collecting, comes this bizarre, and hauntingly beautiful slab of alien black metal. Not sure what else to call it, it's definitely black metal, but it's weirdly blissy and electronic sounding, more like Alcest or Amesoeurs than old school grimnity, but even then, it's still weirder, like it must have been played by robots or insects, or some massive black metal machine assembled beneath the surface of some mysterious moon. You can almost picture some mechanical monstrosity, pieces of human flesh, various organs, somehow built into the machine's inner workings, everything grinding and sparking all in a Herculean effort to produce this glorious droning buzzing blackness. A cloud of black buzz that will eventually drift through space and time swallowing any planets in its path, and extinguishing all life it encounters. Heck, even the cover of the record is the view from some sort of alien lander, looking out and the cold dead ground of some red planet, as if any minute some huge horrible black beast will lurch into view over the horizon, dashing all of our ideas about said planet being uninhabited.

The sound of Servile Sect is epic, and majestic, the guitars glistening sheets of sound, the surface of that sound peppered with bits of electronic shimmer, causing the long drawn out riffery to reflect and refract, tiny little sonic events occurring every second, the surface alive and constantly squirming and changing color, but viewed from afar, it's simply a blown out undulating buzz. Those guitars are digitized and processed, spread into thick smears of warm glowing whir, the riffs barely discernible beneath the constant roar of Servile Sect's sonic swirl

The vocals add just more buzz to the mix, howling and wailing, but stretched into streaks of sonic violence, and drums, assuming there are any, are buried, festering beneath layer after layer of crushing guitar fuzz, emitting noxious rhythms that don't so much blast or pound as they do explode into tiny squalls of still more buzz.

Occasionally, the buzz abates, leaving the guitar to sway lazily, the notes ringing out, the guitars lurking in the distance, but it's never long before the lilting melody is engulfed by a colossal buzzing roar, and the band locks into another extended psychfuzzblackdrone.

Another out of left field immediate AQ black bliss classic. Fans of the new wave of droned out dreamy metal, black and otherwise: Nadja, Angelic Process, Ameseours, Alcest, etc. will dig this, as will dronelords who like their drones heavy and loud and yeah, a bit metallic..


The record is now available for purchase through:
www.sobasc.com
www.myspace.com/soundsofbattlesouvenircollecting
www.aquariusrecords.org


-servile sect

The debut full length, "Stratospheric Passenger" is being released on Sounds of Battle and Souvenir Collecting this Autumnal Equinox, 23 September 2007.

More information on this (along with a track) will be made available closer to the date of release.



Tracklist:

1. Numb
2. Into the Bloom
3. Stratospheric
4. Kingdom
5. Hypodermic Like Bailing Wire
6. Rendering
7. Suicide From Verona Rupes
8. Trainwreck
9. HUDF

Forever,

SS