AN NCS PREMIERE: SATANATH — “IMORARTO”

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Apr 202023
 

The solo project Satanath, formerly based in Russia and now ensconced in the nation of Georgia, is returning with a new album set for release on April 25th. It’s named Posthumous Album, which most people would interpret as a sign that Satanath has succumbed to death and that these tracks were left behind.

But it turns out that the meaning isn’t literal. As explained by the project’s creator Aleksey Korolyov (the owner of Satanath Records, a member of Abigorum, and former keyboardist of Taiga): “The album is posthumous in a figurative sense, since recently we all experienced death in one form or another, saying farewell to the past life.”

The title has another meaning as well. It signifies that Satanath has also moved away from the sounds of previous albums. The music on the new album is still electronic/ambient, and still carries forward the space themes of previous releases (all the songs, for example, have titles that “are made up in a complex language from the world of the Universe from where Satanath came to us”), but the style of the music is indeed markedly different, even as compared to Satanath‘s often evil and always frighteningly head-spinning 2022 album Metallized Arena – and pretty far away from anything else you’ll hear at this site Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: SONGS FROM “PRISONERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM” — A SPLIT BY SATANATH AND STRIBORG

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May 042020
 

 

Today we are presenting two tracks from a split, one by each band. They create a fascinating complement to each other. Both are mysterious, barely tethered to our material plane. Both of them are capable of provoking wonder, and both create trance-like reactions. But one is enlivened by a kind of eerie brightness, while the other is the stuff of nightmares.

That’s only one person’s impression, and you may take other sensations away from hearing them. But what’s undeniable is that both tracks nourish the imagination. The resulting visions will be highly personal to the listener, and maybe not even intersecting with the visions of the creators, but both are triggers for waking dreams.

The name of the split, almost 80 minutes in length, is Prisoners of the Solar System, and the participants are both one-person projects, Satanath from Russia and Striborg from Australia. All the songs are new. It will be released jointly by GrimmDistribution and Death Portal Studio on the 31st of May. Continue reading »

AN NCS DOUBLE PREMIERE: SATANATH (“VIGTIO”) AND WE HATE YOU TOO (“RELICS OF RESTLESSNESS”)

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Sep 182017
 

 

This is a rarity — a combination of two track premieres from two separate albums, one by Satanath and one by We Hate You Too. There is a connection between them, but only because the same label is involved in the two album releases. But the idea of combining them was my own.

The idea occurred to me because both tracks (and albums) represent a divergence from the kind of extreme metal that’s our usual meat and potatoes around here. But I found both tracks very intriguing, and thought you might enjoy the change of pace that each of them represents.

SATANATH: VIGTIO

Satanath is a Russian solo project devoted to a style of dark “space ambient” music. The creator behind the project is Aleksey Korolyov, who is also the label boss at Satanath Records as well as the man behind Abigorum. The new Satanath album is named Your Personal Copy and consists of 20 tracks and nearly 80 minutes of music. It will be co-released by the Belarusian label Grimm Distribution and Craneo Negro Records (Mexico). The track we’re presenting is “Vigtio“. Continue reading »