Vlürch - Empyreal Obtenebration (2022)

 The new album is finished! It would've ended up longer and better if I didn't stick to my "one album per year" schedule, but I feel like I need to stick to that schedule or I'll risk getting just as sporadic with solo releases as Deformed Elephant Surgery, so... yeah, this album may not be perfect (as if anything I did was), but at least I hope some people will find it listenable.

01. Holometabolic Heteromorphosis
02. Coulrophobia (feat. Jared Spry)
03. Matriphagic Parthenogone
04. Empyreal Obtenebration
05. Offal of Farlies
06. Synderesis (feat. Slow Crone)
07. The Inherence of Existential Dread
08. The Wind That Shreds Flesh
09. Apeiromania
10. Trypophilia (feat. Puke Borb)
11. The Feathered Serpent
12. Phantasmal Palingenesis

Click on song titles to listen on Youtube, or alternatively here as one video.
Also on Bandcamp, where it's free to download.

I should probably explain why this album has the same title as an album I made as Heave the Sun back in 2012 (ten years ago wtf!) since some people might think "really? is THIS how little creativity you have left???". Basically, as soon as that album was finished, I thought "I want to do better versions of these songs later", and in 2020 I already did a new version of "Feeding the Demiurge" for the album "Numen" (not necessarily a better version, since I couldn't figure out how to recreate that weird synth sound from the original song anymore, but...)

 So, doing new versions of the other songs from that album is what I meant to do on this album, but... well, it didn't exactly turn out that way, since it's just the title track. Still, it's the title track of that album, so I thought I should call this album with the same name. Makes sense, right? I really wanted to do new versions of "Living Shadows of Abraxas" and "Venom of the Seraphim", too, but there was some shit that made me not have enough time or motivation. So, I might expand this album later, if I get around to it in 2023 or even later... who knows.

"Coulrophobia" and "Synderesis" were already released as singles, but I'll still mention how happy I am about Jared Spry's sax magic on the former and Slow Crone's guitar solo on the latter! Those songs just wouldn't be the same without their contributions, so... yeah. Also, another friend who wanted to remain anonymous (so he went by Puke Borb lol) did microtonal guitar to a couple of parts of "Trypophilia", which is pretty epic, really enhanced the atmosphere!

Vlürch - Cosmocide (2021)

Here's the new album! I'm really proud of it musically, since it's probably my most consistent album in terms of sound (with basically just one outlier) and I feel like it really works as a whole better than as individual songs. I also tried some new things, while doing some things I hadn't done in a while, and it just ended up being how it ended up being. The lyrics are by far the most political I've ever written (although not in every song), which is of course not everyone's cup of tea, but I just had to do some venting. So, yeah, there are a lot of leftist and anti-authoritarian lyrics on this album... and some other stuff.

1. Coronation

2. Apotropaic Atrocities

3. Blind Basileiolatry

4. Cancerous Chrysopoeia

5. Dignified Dogmata

6. Parastasis

7. Webs and Nets (feat. Jared Spry)

8. Over Clay and Blood, Flowers and Fire

9. Elusion and Somnia

10. Penetralia

11. Sanctum Sanctorum

12. The Dolour of Pomegranates

13. Crucession

14. Umbra

Click on song titles to listen on Youtube, or click here for the full album.

Free download on Bandcamp, as always. Also on Mediafire if you prefer that.

And now I'm going to ramble a little about the lyrics of all the songs. I'll keep it reasonably short, though:

"Coronation" is about, well, you know, the coronavirus. Mostly about how it'd already be over if politicians didn't care more about making money than saving people's lives, and how it's been used by authoritarians to pass bullshit restrictions that'll last long after corona while doing little to nothing to actually stop corona itself.

"Apotropaic Atrocities" is about people assuming the worst about each other, always picking the most uncharitable interpretation about everything, and how everyone is a part of society, etc.

"Blind Basileiolatry" started out being just about the Taliban, obviously against them. It kinda expanded and eventually ended up also generally being about how people justify and glorify violence, oppression, etc. with religion and nationalism and other bullshit... but also about how spirituality could be a force for good, if different religions got along and agreed to disagree.

"Cancerous Chrysopoeia" is just a song about the destruction of the environment, and how no matter what individuals do, as long as governments and big companies keep polluting, it's not going to stop getting worse. Might sound pessimistic, but I mean, I'm convinced rich assholes would keep killing the planet even if only for their own amusement.

"Dignified Dogmata" is about people who (pretend to) self-flagellate over every little thing they or their ancestors have ever done and who constantly give others shit for shit they or their ancestors have done, and who pretend to have an impeccable moral compass while at the same time being OK with all kinds of injustices as long as they don't get their hands dirty, and are narcissistic and high-and-mighty and all that stuff. You know the type.

"Parastasis" isn't political at all, it's mainly inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy (or at least the Inferno part of it... which I read once forever ago so I don't remember much), and generally about Hell in a kinda ambiguously erotic way? Or something like that, it's the most abstract song on this album as far as lyrics go.

"Webs and Nets" is mostly about cyberbullying and catfishing, with an angle like... go ahead and catfish me, I don't care if you're lying, and it's fine if you cyberbully me, you'd only be hurting yourself in the end; but also pretty explicitly about how it's still bad. Obviously I don't want to be cyberbullied or catfished, so it's mostly just edginess... but there's a little bit of truth to it, as in if it's very obvious trolling it doesn't really bother me, and I don't even want a real-life relationship so if someone was catfishing me, it wouldn't be that big a deal.

"Over Clay and Blood, Flowers and Fire" is just an anti-authoritarian song, with some stuff that isn't really obviously political but also some that's pretty obvious. It doesn't matter much what kind of economic policies an oppressive government has, and even less whether authoritarian individuals are right-wing or left-wing, because authoritarianism is bad. It may well be more effective than non-authoritarianism, but that doesn't make it good.

"Elusion and Somnia" is just an imaginary love song, or... not necessarily a love song, but a song about beautiful women. I'll admit it's inspired by real-life women, who I never even tried to date or anything, and in hindsight I'm almost certainly happier because I didn't. I don't mean that in a sexist way, it's not like I'd try to actually date a dude either. But writing weird lyrics about love and sex? Of course!

"Penetralia" is about priests molesting kids, obviously condemning it. I wrote the lyrics after it was in the news how the Catholic church in France had known about the stuff going on there for decades but kept covering it up, which isn't even surprising anymore but still manages to piss me off. It's not just Catholic priests, either, and it's like... maybe repressing your sexuality like that isn't healthy, and leads to shit like this? But the song is just a "fuck you" to priests who molest kids.

"Sanctum Sanctorum" is just an outro to "Penetralia". Originally it was one song, with the outro being just ambient guitar stuff, but I decided to add harpsichord, piano and organ and split it into a separate song.

"The Dolour of Pomegranates" is a song inspired by Salvador Dalí's painting Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening and the film The Colour of Pomegranates. So, yeah, it's kinda surrealist with some "symbolic" stuff as well, but also specifically about that post on Tumblr where someone thought pomegranates were gore. That post is something that I think about from time to time.

"Crucession" is, probably unsurprisingly, about priests. Yeah, again... but this one's about their conservatism, and more focused on Orthodox and Lutheran priests who pick and choose their bigotry specifically so that they can remain homophobic (while coming off as kinda homoerotic themselves with their passion for Jesus), and in some other ways adapting to the changing norms to appeal to people. Also how they're clown-like in a way, you know?

"Umbra" is about sleep paralysis, but in a way compares conservatism to sleep paralysis. It's not a necessary interpretation, though. Thankfully it's been a while since I've had proper full-blown sleep paralysis, but even the lesser form where there's no hallucinating sucks, and my literal first memory is of sleep paralysis.

You might wonder why I don't just publish the lyrics, but... nah. That's not something I want to do with most of my music even if the lyrics are meaningful, because it's still pointless and it's not like the lyrics are actually deep or anything. If you can make them out, you can, but if not, that's not detracting from the music. Unless you think it is, but in that case my music probably isn't your cup of tea anyway for the most part.

 

ANYWAY, if you listen to the album, I hope you enjoy it! If not, that's fine too. It definitely is my most "normal" and simple album, but at the same time my most "sloppy" so that can probably be offputting even for the few people who usually like my stuff haha.

Vlürch - Enlightenment and Annihilation (2021)

This album is just remastered versions of the more black metal-leaning songs from "Numen", a few of them have minor differences but that's literally it. The actual new album is coming soon, I promise. Just figured I should release this first, since, you know, it's less important.

01. Enlightenment and Annihilation

02. The Night the Sun Will Set in the East

03. Ouroboros

04. Feeding the Demiurge

05. Adorcism

Click on song titles to listen on Youtube. Alternatively, the full album in one video.

 

Download from Bandcamp: click this

 

The only differences any of the songs have from the original versions is that "Feeding the Demiurge" doesn't have the jazzy part, and "Adorcism" has new vocals at the end.

All of the songs are brickwalled to hell and back, because why would I do remastered versions of them if I wasn't going to brickwall them? You might say "wtf they were already brickwalled" and you wouldn't be wrong, but now they're doubly brickwalled! So if you want your metal to leave your ears ringing, this might just be your cup of tea. If you don't want that, then you may want to avoid this.

Vlürch - 地獄的心象風景 (2021)

Some time ago, I decided that someday I'd make a proper death metal album. I'd also decided that I'd make an album with lyrics entirely in Japanese. Well, this album is technically neither of those things, since it's not entirely death metal and not all of the lyrics are in Japanese, but it's close enough that I feel like those goals are fulfilled. Doesn't necessarily mean I won't set one or both of those goals for myself again, and actually sticking to it 100%, but I don't think that's very likely to happen.

01. 暗み
02. 死屍累々たる修羅場
03. 万華鏡地獄の回転木馬
04. ピエログロ
05. 肉傀儡
06. 人間の繭
07. 虹光身
08. 膿の海の生み

(Click on song titles to listen on Youtube, or click here for it as one video.)

 

This album had a lot of "firsts" for me; the first album with actual bass on all tracks, the first album with five-string bass (but not on all tracks), the first album with sanshin (but only in three tracks), the first album where I recorded guitars directly to my interface without pedals (except for compression and noise gate), the first album where the process of making songs was more "traditional" rather than just recording random shit and mashing it together, and I imagine the first album I can actually call metal without pissing somebody off.

...unless it's still not metal enough thanks to the weird psychedelic parts, the random jazz part and synth bit in the third track, the borderline nu metal-ish fourth track, the entirety of the seventh track and the fact that it's not released physically because everybody knows it's not metal unless it has a limited cassette run of 666 copies signed with blood.

On Bandcamp

Vlürch - Numen (2020)

So, here's my newest album! I'm really proud of how it turned out.

1. Ouroboros

2. The Day the Sun Will Rise from the West

3. The Cycle of Deicide

4. Grotesque Florescent Symphysy

5. Carnal Mandala

6. Numen

7. Adorcism

8. Feeding the Demiurge

9. Iridescent Manifestation of the Celestial Serpent

10. The Night the Sun Will Set in the East

11. Enlightenment and Annihilation

 

Listen the full album on Youtube or as a playlist, or click on the song titles to listen to them individually.

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Hopefully someone likes it!

Vlürch - Tangle (2019)

So, I finished a new album and decided to put it out on my 25th birthday because I'm selfish like that. It's my first album where there's no logo or album title in the art, simply because I couldn't cram them anywhere without it looking like total shit.

Listen on Youtube

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Vlürch - 奇形と死色 (2018)

Well, here it is...

01. 奇形と死色
02. 孑孓の暃
03. The Evil Eye Virus
04. Polymorphic Mirage
05. Waxen Mooncalf
06. 蜜人
07. Spasmodic Cochleate Moult
08. Gravid Antidune
09. 虹光身
10. Mercurial Backslider
11. Astral Body Snatcher
12. 餓鬼蟲
13. Body Horror Vacui
14. Bioluminescent Cyclorama
15. System Idol Process

(Click here to listen to the album in its entirety on Youtube.)

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ATTENTION, YOUTUBE REACTORS!!! If you make album reaction videos, please react to this album! I'd really like to see people's faces and/or hear what they say when they hear some of this stuff for the first time, regardless of whether they're negative or positive reactions.

...or if you're more generally a reviewer, please review it!

Vlürch - Psychotronic Eschaton (2018)

1. Igniferous Aerial Juggernaut
2. The Primordial Devourer
3. Reverence for the Open Mouth
4. Deserts of Flesh
5. Psychotronic Eschaton

Click song titles to listen on Youtube. Also as a playlist, if you prefer.

Download from Bandcamp.
...or from Mediafire.

This is definitely my heaviest and noisiest album, but also the most accessible in the sense that it's probably the closest to any genre of standard metal I've ever done. The title track does push into some kind of avant-garde territory, though, I guess.

Vlürch - 黑魔經 (2016) + Kenosis (remastered) (2018)

Somehow I forgot to post the 2016 album, 黑魔經, when I finished it in the October of that year, even though it's almost certainly my best album ever. I'm not sure how I managed to do that... and by "that" I mean both the album and forgetting to post about it. Well, here it is now, a year and a half late.

黑魔經

Click song titles to listen on Youtube individually, or click here for the playlist.
01. Hellmouthgasm
02. 黑魔經
03. Postmodern Perspectives on Postmortem Penetration
04. Necromantic Haruspex
05. Leathermen of God
06. 無限快楽
07. 臟渦
08. Love Doll Love Triangle
09. Abscission
10. Black Mass Media Circus

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...or Mediafire: click here

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I also decided to remaster the 2014 album, Kenosis. Now it sounds a lot better, or at least louder. New album art, too, an edit of a famous painting of Jesus, which is somewhat more fitting considering the religious themes of the album. Whether it's pro-religious or anti-religious is up to the listener to decide, within reasonable limits.

Kenosis (remastered)

Click song titles to listen on Youtube; it's the full album, so the links are (approximately) to the beginning of each song.
01. Samsara
02. Manala
03. Pandora Deliria
04. Rahu
05. The Cloven Visitor
06. Apotheosis
07. Kenosis
08. Naraka

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...or Mediafire: click here

The song Naraka is slightly shorter than originally; I cut the kinda random pop-ish part with clean vocals because it felt a little out of place. The title track also has a small change in the buildup to the chorus (if it can be called that), giving it more impact.

Vlürch - Viral Menticide (2017)

Yeah, that's Comic Sans in the album art.

01. Hidden Tornado Escalator
02. Ouroboric Phantasmagoria
03. Viral Menticide
04. The Great Pelvic Horn
05. Mother Nature
06. Fun City (feat. my dad)
07. Flesh Halo
08. 密室
09. Napalm Rimjob
10. Hogtied Prayer Technique
11. Magnetic Signpost Hallucination
Click on song titles to listen on Youtube.

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I was worried I wouldn't finish an album this year, but I did. Just in time for Finland's 100th independence day, too, even though I forgot to post it in this blog. Whether any of the songs are actually listenable is another matter entirely, though... but I'm still proud of how this turned out; well, at least certain parts of certain songs, anyway.

Vlürch - Neon Pornocopia (2014)

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1. Percussive Alchemy
2. Larvae in the Trance Clone Unit
3. Sensual Undulation
4. Romantic Dildo Exorcism
5. Magical Reverse Cowgirl Scouts
6. Oxymoronic Florilegium: Heath Priviledger's Mindfuck Parade (the police are coming, hide the sausage!)
7. Šiçılıəsk a Hşaj (नरक·स्वर्ग + 蛇魔神の呪われた神聖黒石 + 나가·죽지않는황제 + ஙਗ੍ਰੂਮ੍ਹ옖ഷുംઍվ)
Click song titles to listen on Youtube.

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I'm pretty proud of this album, even though "Kenosis" is probably a lot better in every way except that this is weirder and much more experimental.

Vlürch - Kenosis (2014)

ပျိူံ့းཀྨཱིཾ་ဌ်ာံ့ঙৣঁঃ　　｜　　०͕̫̖̝̯̞́ϟ͎̻̰̞ⴕ̦̼̺͎͎̤̙̀͐̽̓͒ͣￛ͂̌́͑ͯⴑͫ̋̉̄͂ͫ̀८͐ͤ̈́◜̇̈́̑̎̓ͦ̈◜̣̙̺̿̉ͨͯ̚ϡ̪̅ͯ̎̽̒　　｜　　ૐॐༀ៚

1. Samsara
2. Manala
3. Pandora Deliria
4. Rahu
5. The Cloven Visitor
6. Apotheosis
7. Kenosis
8. Naraka
Click song titles to listen on Youtube.

Download: click here
You can also download it from Bandcamp if you prefer that.

०८◜◜०ⴕੴ

So, I just finished this new album. It's pretty epic if I can say so myself. Most of the songs have lyrics in random as fuck mixtures of various languages and plain and simple gibberish, though there's some English as well, and whenever any of it makes any sense it's something about religion and mythologies. Not in a way that's pro-religion or anti-religion, just about that stuff. Anyway, I hope people like it, but if not, tell me why because I honestly think it turned out better than anything I've ever done before; I mean, this is a bit like how I wanted "Empyreal Obtenebration" to sound but just wasn't good enough at anything yet to do that, but on the other hand there isn't all that much in-your-face synth stuff*. And I don't sound like Gollum anymore when I sing clean vocals, at least not unless I want to. Anyway, let me know what you think if you listen!

Here's my Facebook page, by the way, if you wanna "like" it.

*Speaking of which, I kinda want to do a new, better version of "Feeding the Demiurge" one day in the future. The reason I haven't already is that I have no clue how I got that weird ass synth sound and haven't succeeded in getting that type of a sound again. Even if it sounds ridiculously bad and doesn't fit the song, I feel like it's an important part of what makes that song what it is and if I'm gonna do a better version of it, well... it'd need to have that anyway. Maybe if I get in that successful mood without having to arse too much, I'll also do a new version of "Four-Dimensional Fractal Maze". I probably wouldn't make it as dissonant, though...

Heave the Sun - Evangelium Carnis Angelorum (2014) + Vlürch - Baroquérotique

I've finally finished this album... and I'm proud of it, even though it's not nearly as good as I'd wanted it to turn out. Anyway, here it is, and it's mostly some sort of industrial black metal/drone/dark ambient/whatever stuff.

Listen on Youtube, click the song titles:
01. The Baptismal Gallows
02. The Angel of the Lord of the Flies
03. Laparotomic Voyage Simulator
04. The Black Ulcer Blossoms
05. Rat King

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Here's the album art thing:

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Aand I also did some neoclassical stuff, or at least tried. I decided to call that song "Baroquérotique", since that's an awesome blend and it has apparently not been used as a song title before... I'm pretty sure I'll do more, so that's why it's "part 1" and "demo".

Listen on Youtube: click

Or on Bandcamp, where you can download it for free from (but the player thing sucks sideways assballs, so I recommend listening it on Youtube): click.

Smunctrum - Dead End (2013)

01. Hungry Swarth
02. Lolibacon
03. Orgasmic Dystrophy
04. Tongue Extraction
05. Sacrificial Vitrification
06. Barehanded Decapitation
07. Postmortem Incest
08. Blowtorch Throatfuck
09. Sulfuric Acid Trip
10. Brain Death
11. Dead End

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Nves (guitar, bass, programming)
Vlürch (vocals, programming, synth)
Jesus (guitar, vocals)
D.K. (vocals)

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So yeah, it took a while to get this album to the point it was ready to be uploaded anywhere, mostly because of unrelated things and stuff... all the songs were like finished a pretty long time ago, but there were things like my voice getting all shit and at least Nves having a life and whatnot. Anyway, here it is, if anyone actually gives a shit, which would be nice.

New Smunctrum song, "Hungry Swarth"

So, here's finally a song that's ready to be uploaded in its entirety, and it'll be on the album that's in the process of being made... and there won't be any physical copies of it (unless some record label is up for charity, heh), even though that'd be cool. It's just that it'd be really difficult to arrange, both in terms of actually releasing it like that and how profits would be split.



I did most of the vocals, but around 0:30 and 1:00 is Jesus, and 2:50+ is DK. And of course, I did drum programming, too. Jesus and Nves recorded the guitar stuffs, and the latter also the bass. Not sure what the genre is, but industrial black metal and noisecore seem to be the most descriptive labels. Blackcore, of course, but that'd get the haters going a lot faster.

New Smunctrum stuff

With some new members and a slight genre change, there'll be a full-length Smunctrum album sometime this year. Not sure when, since only three songs are done so far (and even they might not be 100% finished), but yeah. Here's a preview thingy to annoy people. Please, people who like it, get it going around the world like an STD. :P



And a necessary list of who's doing what, because yeah.

Nves (guitar, bass, programming)
Vlürch (vocals, programming) <-that's me, obviously
Jesus (guitar, sampling)
D.K. (vocals)

...so yeah, I'm the only one who isn't also in MAXD. You might think it'd get kind of awkward, but I don't really know if it is. I mean, it's not like we'd ever meet in person.

Heave the Sun - Perditionism (2013)

I'm really proud of this album, especially because it's the most black metalish stuff I've ever done, although not just black metal. There are a few parts with clean vocals, so if you hate that, well, you don't have to listen those songs.

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01. Mouthful of Festering Goat Entrails
02. Putrescent Stench of a Tomb
03. Intracranial Tongue Swarm
04. An Industrial Abyss
05. The Lair of Inbred Devil Worshippers
06. Monolithopedion
07. Necrophilic Ritual of Black Death

So, if you like this album, tell your friends about it, post it in your blog if you have one, blah blah blah, etc. Obviously, no one will ever even download it, so I'm just wasting my time typing this here. But if you do like it, don't be ashamed of that. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you like my music! Ok, maybe it is, but whatever.

The most grim post on this blog

...that title is possibly a little bit misleading, but who cares about that? This is the most black metalish stuff I've done in a while (longer than since I started this blog), so it's actually true, which is kinda funny. What? That made no sense? Ok.

But yeah, it's been a pretty long time since I made a video of just playing guitar... but I don't know, it's partially because I was too lazy, partially because I hadn't been playing as much.

Anyway, so... first, though, I'll put the new Heave the Sun tracks here, two of them.



This one, I'm really proud of. I mean, it ended up being almost exactly the way I wanted it to be, which seems to happen a lot more often nowadays. Maybe I'm becoming a better musician. *Gasp* Anyway, this other one, on the other hand, I'm not as proud of, but it still turned out good enough to upload:



And now, the guitar video. It's improvisation, as always, and black metal. Or at least it was supposed to be, but... yeah, that kinda failed. It might also have too much distortion, but well.

A blackcore song with wah wah

That title says it all; I made a blackcore (black metal + deathcore/mathcore) song that has some wah wah stuff. I'm really proud of the song, since, like, as far as I know, there hasn't been anything exactly like it before, since wah wah even in just black metal is pretty uncommon, as it is in deathcore and mathcore (ok, it's kinda usual in some mathcore, but you get the point). :P



...and I know, that name is pretty retarded, but well. It's not intended to be the most serious song in the world. The lyrics are about, well, you can probably guess from the name, a Satan-worshipping inbred cult who live in a sort of cave.

Heave the Sun - Elysium and Inferno (2012)

I hadn't really posted anything about doing this, but yeah, two new full-length Heave the Sun albums. How do I do stuff so fast? Well, there's a very simple explanation to why these two were finished so soon after the first album and the DES album that just happened to get finished around the same time; "Inferno" was already 75% done by the time I finished "Empyreal Obtenebration", like some people might know, although I'm not sure how they could know that. Anyway, "Elysium" pretty much came in one huge surge of inspiration. But they're so different that it'd feel wrong to clump all songs together on the same album ("Elysium" is folk rock/prog metal/post-rock or something like that, "Inferno" is symphonic/industrial black/death metal) so... this is the best way to do it, I think.

ELYSIUM

Track list:
01. Metamorphosis of the Prophet to Light
02. Kaleidoscopic Divine Coitus
03. Inhale the Abyss
04. Consumption of the Void
05. Nebular Immersion of the Metaphysical Entities

Length: 30:55 minutes

INFERNO

Track list:
01. Womb of Teeth
02. Tree of Entrails
03. Scissor Defloration
04. Abandoned Slaughterhouse as a Playground for Mutilated Children
05. Whorehouse Anatomist's Asphyxiation before the Sculpture of Filth
06. Tongue of Perdition
07. Stygian Fragrance of the Plague

Length: 31:56 minutes

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I hope you like them, since I'm really proud of how both albums turned out! :D