We’re honored to welcome Norwegian Abhorrent Black/Doom Metal Entity Deadlight Sanctuary to our fold as we ready the release of the band’s debut album "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned" on cassette and LP in collaboration with Iron Bonehead Productions for Europe, scheduled for an official street/ship date of July 24 2020. Vinyl and cassettes of the rotten slab of pestilent extreme metal are now available for pre-order on our store and Bandcamp or via IBHP for EU customers.
Deadlight Sanctuary is a solo project of G., notorious for being one of the ghouls behind Norwegian black/death/war metal terrorists Goatkraft. In Deadlight Sanctuary G. has however steered his attention toward the more ritualistic, contemplative and esoteric fringes of black metal, seeking out instead the perverse, morbose, doomed and decadent moods and atmospheres we've seen in bands like Beherit and most recently in Demoncy, a couple of G.'s long running musical inspirations. The end result became "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned", G's debut solo album under the Deadlight Sanctuary moniker, a lone descent by the Norwegian musician into a sonic underworld of esoteric necromantic perversions and decaying sepulchers drenched with the stench of death. Steeping in deviancy and decadence, "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned" is an exercise in sonic disgust, defilement, and abandon, in which black metal has embraced doom and the most decaying realms of inverted filth-worship, giving way to doomy rhythms and tempos that have masterfully re-evoked the tank-linke stylistic resemblances of early Demoncy, along with the disgusting, evil, and lurid atmospheres we've seen spew forth by Beherit in their now legendary "Drawing Down the Moon" album.
In a lengthily in-depth introduction to the release and exclusive premiere of the album’s namesake track, extreme metal blog Last Rites comments that “Deadlight Sanctuary invokes tortured, hateful aggression and channels it into an offering of pure, unbridled worship in one of the most evil-sounding subsets of metal’s most reviled subgenre.“ - you can check out the track and their feature HERE.
The idea for Deadlight Sanctuary matured a few years ago, but didn’t seriously begin to take shape until recently. The plan for G. was to create slow, heavy, and dark music with gloomy whispering vocals and primitive decaying atmospheres, lyrically and conceptually going down a perverted path of occultism and necromancy. Until mid 2018 the project was only an unfulfilled concept. The process of transforming it into reality began to crystalize around the end of 2018. Inspired for many years of absorbing the dark force and legacies of Demoncy and Beherit, G. started to arrange the first riffs that would eventually become the title song and namesake of the project - “Deadlight Sanctuary”.
During the next months more songs were created until the bulk of the debut album "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned" began to fully take shape as a cohesive creation. The album was eventually recorded in June of 2019. Soon after, a cooperation between G. and Sentient Ruin Labolatories was established and then Goatkraft’s original label Iron Bonehead Productions also came into the picture to handle a Eurpean release of the debut album on physical formats slated for July 24 2020, adorned by glorious artwork delivered to the band by BMS Illustration from Caracas, Venezuela (Cthonica, Tetragrammacide etc.).