De Vermis Mysteriis (Bel) "The Faceless Labyrinth of Interstellar Madness" Digipak CD

D.V.M.’s swan song seeks to evoke a loosely conceptual journey from hubris to nemesis, a voyage not unlike the one Lovecraft’s accursed Abdul Alhazred undertook when he divulged forbidden secrets in his Necronomicon at great cost. Throughout the album’s course, a conjurer’s aspiration to transcendence leads him further and further towards his psychological downfall and final, inevitable psychotic apotheosis, as he fails to heed the warning “you know not what powers you toy with”. That personal undoing not only coincides with the destruction of human civilization but is also mirrored by it. Ten songs of raw and menacing yet alluringly melodic black metal close in on the listener until the seal is broken. Until the death bell hollowly chimes, proclaiming the end of anthropic sovereignty. When the curtain finally falls, chaos reigns supreme. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Pro-CD presented in a 6 panel digipak, limited to 100.