Primeval

by Sutekh Hexen

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1.
Malediction 04:59
Yes! The night shall cover all. They meet. 6&6&6. Star bound veiled. Celestial majesty. Invert the sky. Raise tourmaline. Arise! Unhallowed be. Vast. Emerald of the night garden. Iridescence? Malign? For thy senseless. Wisdom? For the lost. Ages. Pure will. Never. Appear on the throne. Overseer. Ordeals. Immortal. Mortal perils. Now prey.
2.
आर्मगेडन
3.
Here is where. Where I stand. Nothing of this world. Mend is naught. Thy reason. Remembering. To bless this curse upon you. Your heart. To pour naught. Masquerade. Remain nameless. Darkest depths. Shatter this Earth. This foul cup. Befouled. Dust. To draw life. And erase existence. Your existence.
4.
Moss Skull 04:16
To sow the seed. It shall fall. Alone. To guide without. Secrets. To raise the dead. From secret darkness.
5.
Pyre 03:27
And beholden. To live again. To die again. Your prayer. My downfall. Descent. What return? A dagger for touch. Now I stand. Before the altar of time. Of us. Alone. I held this. For us. To nourish. An oath. Broken. I will show thee. To know. Unknown. Toward infinity.
6.
Orædjinn 07:38
To they who conquer. Upon the bodies. Stained anew. Utter. Your chosen. You are chosen. Self appointed. Chosen. To stop life of being. We know them. Delerium. Inexistence. Of clay. No. Vengence. Not chosen. Of fire. No origin. AINA HIIA. Without pointed purpose. Stand now. To open. Toward flame. And guilty.
7.
Cavern Rite 04:16
Des grottes. Espèces connues. Tortures par centaines. Comme les chevaux par centaines. Diverses espèces. Quelques dizaines largement écrasées par leur 250 ou 300 congénères. Dans les grottes. D'une grand justesse. Aisément reconnue. Dessins de cornes. Espèces largement représentées. Proportions variables. Herbivores. Parois des grottes. Jusqu'alors connues dans les grottes.
8.
Veil of life. Life of death. For all. All the unknowns. Where were you?

about

SUTEKH HEXEN at the core has conducted experimental black metal deconstructionism from the blight of the Bay Area, and depending on conceptual framework, with a global cast of high-calibre talented collaborators for over 14 years. Initially (and anonymously) SUTEKH HEXEN took the underground by storm with a trio of very limited demo tapes utilizing their distinctive unification of raw atmospheric black metal with scathing noise electronics, heavy textural anti-rhythms, dark ambient expanse and unsettling vocals. And with each consecutive release the concepts, production and dynamics became more elaborate without compromising their foundation.

However with this latest offering, 'Primeval', the magisterial sonic-alchemists present a rather dramatic focus, reembodying their trajectory from another angle of the point; still haunting and immersing the listener in an eerily familiar space: their space...

Recorded on location in the majestic (darkness) of the redwood forests, decaying WWII era bunkers and a light-soaked wooden chapel on the west coast in California and Oregon, to the northeastern haunted pastures of the first American witch trials in New England, the urban brutalism of Berlin, to the glorious and ancient caverns deep within the French Pyrenees.

SUTEKH HEXEN have undeniably pushed and progressed boundaries once again. 'Primeval' can be considered their most authentic, cinematic and polarizing album to date. With these 8 tracks of base elemental transmutations, utilizing arrangements of exclusively acoustic instrumentation and other non-electric methods of sound generation via: acoustic strings (guitars, viola, violin), percussion: (metal, stone, wooden objects, timpani), wind: (pipe organ and open-air orations) resulting in their brightest recorded material ...casting the darkest shadow.

The journey begins, perhaps this is the end or maybe the beginning?
The theme closed full circle, were you (t)here?


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This was the 279th Cycle & BSBB000

credits

released January 24, 2025

KEVIN GAN YUEN - guitars, objects, percussion and vocals
YAN AREXIS - field-recordings, percussion, voix
HENRY BIRDSEY - lap steel, metal objects
RYAN JOBES - pipe organ, timpani
GINA EYGENHUYSEN - violin arrangements
B.S.s. - violia, textures, orations
LUCAS LEVYLIOTAR - drum, corrugated metal, glossolalia

Written & produced by SUTEKH HEXEN in conspiracy & collaboration from thee above.
Recorded 2012-2024 in Oakland, France, New England, Berlin, Portland and Clovis
Additional vocals recorded 2024 at Cendrillon in Oakland, engineered by LUCAS LEVYLIOTAR
Mixed 2021-2024 at New Golgotha + Qu4drant
Mastered 2024 by LARS ENSENN in Berlin

Photography by GAST BOUCHET and KEVIN GAN YUEN
Adornments & staging by PATRICIA CRAM
Art direction/design by VIRALOPTIC.COM
Gratitude: Yan, Henry, Ryan, Gina, B.S.s., Lucas, Sam, Andrew,
P + AK, Gast, Mattia, Robin, Frédéric and Rob.

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Psychedelic deconstructionist black metal cacophony treading minimalist and maximalist sensibilities.

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