AETERNA - New Dawn - CD
Awake the New Dawn!
Aeterna is a new apocalyptic folk outfit from Germany, born in 2007. In the beginning it was intended to be the strictly personal musical outlet for founding member Birthe Klementowski, well-known from her artwork for Cold Meat Industry?s Desiderii Marginis, :Golgatha: and Dawn & Dusk Entwined, but the dynamics between Alpha and Omega brought forth something new. The dark and brooding atmospheres invoke the mood of decline and decay, a direct resemblance to the artist?s photography. The album ?New Dawn? ultimately presents 11 songs about the decline and rebirth of culture.
Aeterna does not serve ideological pattern but presents the musical and visual output as an inspiration for the audience. Death is always the beginning of a new circle. Out of hopelessness arises a New Dawn. As the earth faces the end of resources and the destruction of nature, the loss of spiritual values and the total virtualisation of the all-day life, mankind experiences a self made inferno. We have to turn and find new ways? Aeterna is a prayer for these new ways. For new spiritual values to ignite the fire of enlightenment once more. To create something new out of the old roots. The Old Gods eventually may not return, but the Eternal Principle is still there.
The music of Aeterna is based on ritualistic and shamanistic structures, mainly acoustic sounds, and invoking chants ? all based on the dualistic principle of male and female energy ? Alpha & Omega. Aeterna is a trans-modern, neo-shamanistic, animistic art project. A Luciferian hymnus to awake the New Dawn?
:GOLGATHA: - The Waste Land CD
The German ritual-folk-formation :Golgatha: was founded in 2004 by Christoph Donarski. The first full length album ?Waste Land? after two compilation tracks appeared in an edition of 100 hand-numbered CD-rs. Published by the musician himself it shed first light on things to come. ?Waste Land? is the rare prequel to the acclaimed and successful 2008-album ?Sang Graal? (with Dawn & Dusk Entwined) and is itself inspired by T. S. Eliot?s enigmatic grail-poem ?The Waste Land? which works as a key metaphor for a spiritually dying world.
On ?Waste Land? sinister and pessimistic soundscapes unfold and spread fragmented allusions and remarks on spiritual death and cultural clash. The symbolic name of :Golgatha: - which is the execution hill in Jerusalem where Jesus had been crucified - was never more fitting than in this early apocalyptic soundtrack for an Inner Cinema, carried by ritual drums, dark drones, mysterious sounds and sacred voices.
For this re-release the original sound was totally re-mastered and appears more powerful than ever before. The original artwork is added by bleak photos from the same era to complete the image. This CD contains two original versions of tracks later remixed by Dawn & Dusk Entwined for ?Sang Graal?. Bonus tracks: two combined tracks from ?In the Crystal Cage?-compilation (2004) and ?Shred your skin? from the SAW II-soundtrack by Charlie Clouser (Trisol).
