The threshold yearns in the deep of night whence etched moonlit designs carressed of somber and shadow unto a silver-blue eternity. Welcome to the esoteric glade.
News:
2/10th/2010 Greetings old friends and new, I am pleased to announce Ashtorath's 3rd full length release entitled 'Litany of the Final Days'
Ashtorath - Litany of the Final Days
(Runtime : 54 minutes, 14 tracks)
1. The Tree of Lament
2. Remnants
3. A Desolate End
4. The Seven Reflections of Smoke
5. Erosion
6. Disciplines of Iron
7. The Riddled Husk
8. Subtrist Calm
9. Darkfead
10. The Blind Seamstress
11. The Flowing of Terra
12. Empires of Sand
13. Augery of Sloe
14. Into the Storm
This album can be downloaded in mp3 format from here for now. Hardcopies will be available in a month or so.
I have also begun work in fields of technical death metal with Netheriel. Our debut album was released in Febuary of 2009 and we now have a deal with Black Death Productions for the promotion and distribution of this release. We've been working towards completing our lineup with a new bassist, and we're still looking for a drummer.
In the meantime, work continues on 'The Nine Virtues of Destruction' - Netheriel's second full length.
Netheriel - Regnum Inferni
(Runtime : 30:13, 8 tracks - album now in stock)
Netheriel - Regnum Inferni
1. Regnum Inferni
2. Vitae Perpetua
3. Enemies of the Cross
4. Born of the Altar
5. Dead Flesh Requiem
6. Enigma of the Black Flame
7. Suffering Servants
8. Atrophic Dissolution
mp3s of this album can be found here and here
Lastly, I have put together a demo album for GloomScry which has a runtime of around 45 minutes.
GloomScry - From The Silent Beginning
Runtime : 45:00, 9 tracks)
1. The Neblifth Mantra Reflected
2. Of Night and Her Gleam
3. The Black Overture
4. A Kindred Tale
5. And Dusk Had Fell
6. Awakening
7. Through the Glades of Autumn
8. The Dark Serenade
9. Prelude in Dm (J.S Bach)
The tracks on this release were writen and recorded between 2002 and 2006, and are arranged from earliest to latest with the exception of The Black Overture, which was the first recording in this vein.
This release serves to convey some of the melodic, neo classical black metal that I began working on as a side project to Ashtorath. It was through this project that I acquired much of the instrumentation and engineering heard on Regnum and Litany.
The album can be found here temporarily.
the hardcopies of these albums will be available through this website in the coming months. I have only to discuss some fine points in replication, but I imagine that these releases will be no later than April, for under $10, we shall see.
I would like to bid you all a nod in this storm of existence - Hail, thank you for your patience if you have waited for releases from Ashtorath or GloomScry - where I have sought to keep the kin sated with mp3s, I can say now that albums will soon be available.
Dark Journeys to you all.
-Despairialindrid
1/8th/08 Good news! Sacha of Enditol and Divinity has signed a deal with NuclearBlast, complete with management and touring \m/ I wish them a strong journey through the infernal lands of the metal industry. Sacha helped in the development of my studio and engineering practices, and contributed many ideas and solutions. In addition to this, he is quite adept at guitar and programming, check out his work at http://www.enditol.net/.
10/2nd/06My thanks to June for recovering the majority of the forementioned poetry.
4/18th/06I seem to have completely lost all of Ashtorath's poetry in moving the contents of the work over to a new system. Many people have requested the writings over the years and I have generally emailed them everything written to date. If anyone has such a collection, do get it back to me..
5/26th/05 Forgive the downtime that Ashtorath.com experienced this month, the issues have been resolved.
7/29th/04 subtle updates to the page.
12/13th/03 The Official GloomScry Website is up, it can be found here