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- Bocksholm : The Sound Of Black Cloggs [2003]
- Camanecroszcope : Echoes Ov Who Lieth Dead But Ever Dreameth [2003]
- Camanecroszcope : Echoes Ov A Beckoning Arcanum [2006]
- Converter : Exit Ritual [2003]
- Empusae : Mortusae [2009]
- Land:Fire : Physical:Mental:Psychological [2004]
- Megaptera : Near Death [1991]
- Megaptera : Beyond The Shadow [1994]
- Megaptera : Disease [1996]
- Monolith Of Doom : Devastation Panorama [2009]
- OKK-ULTh : Elizabeth Bathory [2003]
- Organic Cage : Malpractice Machine [2008]
- Raison d'être : Après Nous Le Déluge [1992]
- Raison d'être + Svasti-Ayanam : The Ring Of Isvarah [1994]
- Raison d'être : In Sadness, Silence And Solitude [1997]
- Raison d'être : The Luminous Experience [ Live In Enschede 2008 ]
- Raison d'être : Live Archive [2010]
- Stratvm Terror : The Only True Septic Whore [1999]
- Stratvm Terror : Genetic Implosion [2000]
- Synapscape : Raw [2002]
- Synapscape : Traits [2011]
- Tzolk'in : Tonatiuh [2010]

Tzolk'in : Tonatiuh [2010]

1 Tonatiuh 8:51
2 Quetzacoatl 7:28
3 Mictlantecuhtli 5:12
4 Tezcatlipoca 6:07
5 Tlazolteotl 6:17
6 Xipe Totec 6:39
7 Nanahuatzin 8:15

“Tonatiuh”, the newest album from this collaborative project between Empusae and Flint Glass, does have one thing in common with mantra music of this sort: atmosphere. Of course, the oppressive humidity of untamed jungles is hardly the same as the glittering, rainbow-spattered waterfalls and soft bird calls that the weak of purpose pursue so wholeheartedly, and it is that unbridled ferocity that lurks within the sweeping vistas painted by this pair, peppered with neo-primitive rhythms that excite the soul and unleash adrenal secretions in the listener. Mood music? Definitely. Just not the mediocre, safe moods society would have us celebrate. This album activates a hidden aspect of the subconscious, a primitive memory-form that recalls the bloody daily struggle between man and nature – not for supremacy, but simply for survival. Powerful, stirring stuff, indeed.


The Aztec imagery in the track listing (from “Mictlantecuhtli” through to “Quetzalcoatl”, an entire pantheon of Mesoamerican gods are present) and the album artwork, not to mention the very name Tzolk’in being lifted from the very calendar that predicts the end of the world in just under two years, remains perfectly valid, however. As the press release so cheerfully points out, it is estimated that approximately 20,000 human sacrifices were performed by this enigmatic civilisation annually at its peak, and the blood fever associated with this is an undeniable presence looming behind the creeping advance of Tzolk’in’s music.


The broad spectrum of sounds created by Tzolk’in on “Tonatiuh” will appeal to followers of industrial, ambient and even some psytrance; it’s a wonderful illustration of tribal sensibilities, executed in a contemporary, cutting-edge electronic medium. That said, wearers of tie-dyed shirts, salon-matted dreadlocks and other alien abductees may not have the stomach for this beautifully chilling record…
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Tzolk'in : Haab' [2008]

01. Muwan
02. Kumk'u
03. Uayeb
04. K'ank'in
05. Sotz
06. K'ayab
07. Yaxk'in
08. Xul

"... dark melancholic yet epic sounding soundscapes, with added ambient spheres and rhythms that ensure an exotic, either meditative or haunting tribal atmosphere. Ceremonial deep tones take you back in time to the world of the Mayas, while these tones are merging with the power of industrial music, kept together by the ritual rhythms that enhance the atmosphere of a thriving culture such as the Maya people once had."

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Tzolk`in : Tzolk`in [2004]

1. Etz'nab (6:16)
2. Imix (5:37)
3. Chikchan (5:18)
4. Kawak (6:57)
5. Kaban (5:55)
6. Lamat (6:58)
7. Ak'bal (13:21)
8. Chuwen (7:03)

Tzolk'in is a collaboration between Empusae and Flint Glass, artists who are known in the fields of dark ambient, contemporary ritualistic tribal music. This is a superb 8-track digipack mastered by the emblematic and enigmatic Ah Cama-Sotz in his Illektric.Toolz studio. The music can be described as an ambient but powerful and obsessive electronic piece.

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