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THEOSOPHICAL RECORDSMission StatementWe've been gone for a while and our releases have taken a long time due to, well, a variety of factors. Be it preparing for a tour, rehearsing lots and lots of songs for shifting setlists or deliberately attempting to write masterpieces, whatever that means, we have delayed our output. After a lot of time and a lot of thought, we of the Theosophical Society and its constituent bands (Enoch, Sudan, Pharaohs, Tremors) and other related projects and side projects such as Machines, Oceans, and the Grand Society, have decided to buy the rights to all of our stuff back from our previous label (who offered them up at the nominal price of an Aussie dollar a piece so that it would be a legally-binding exchange). We will be rereleasing our back catalog through this website as high-quality .WAV files for nominal fees. Some may be free, some may be a couple bucks, and others might be expensive; it depends entirely on the specific release. But we promise to have fair prices and to open up our vaults a bit more freely to you guys. This means the occasional rare live set, in-studio live sets, releases of alternate versions of tracks, new albums, long-form songs, and various projects. Our inaugural release was of a substantial portion of back-logged albums that we hadn't released due to any combination of the reasons we listed above and honestly, probably a couple more. They are all free to download. Our first recent release has been made already, as well. Continue to check back here for more as we continue to release and rerelease albums from our history. Releases$0Machines - Machines
Bardock - Magna Munde
Pharaohs - Pharaohs! 8: OHDaMn
Pharaohs - Pharaohs! 9: Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Arranged for Guitar, Piano, and Trap Kit
Enoch - The Vaults V: The Gray
Sudan - Fear
The Theosophical Society - Cosmogenesis$3Tremors - The Pop AlbumBandsThe Theosophical Society Enoch Sudan Pharaohs Tremors Machines Oceans Bardock
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Just a quick response to a weird rumor:
1) Yes, some of the copies of the free albums we released a bit back have text files of gibberish.
2) No, the text isn't actually gibberish.
3) No, it isn't a code. Well, it kind of is, but not for you.
4) Yes, the text files are there on purpose.
5) No, they aren't there on every copy.
6) Yes, there are lots and lots of different text files.
Here's a hint; try changing the file type from .txt to .mp3 and saving again. We figure you guys on the internet will piece together what to do with all the files from there.
In other news, the Theosophical Society has started work on another record. This one will contain a singular long-form piece of progressive music. Since we are releasing this through the internet only for the time being, we don't have to worry about time constraints, so we're revisiting some tapes I have in the archive of various juicy bits from jams that we liked and seeing what can fit where. We imagine the structure of the song may be rather elaborate, with sections and subsections and interludes and whatnot, but that's part of the fun of progressive music. We are also trying to keep an open mind when it comes to what genres we would like to explore in this one, so we're opening the archives to jams from all constituent bands. There may be epic symphonic sections next to grindcore bits, quirky ELP or Frank Zappa-inspired bits next to goth rock (thanks for the music suggestions, Regan, by the way), really heavy prog metal bits next to bebop. The current theme of the piece, at least for how we are framing it mentally, is the 1001 Nights.
Oh, we're also looking for collaborators. Tell us if you're interested and we'll see where we can place you in the tune.
- Gorloche
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Jason Smith, main songwriter, lead guitarist, lead vocalist, and lyricist of the progressive band Mind, will be a contributing member. We're most likely going to utilize his talents in non-metal areas or, if on metal parts, ones rather different from what he does in Mind and has been giving clips of from his solo stuff. We're all huge fans of his stuff and had tentative plans for Mind to join as part of the Grand Society Mk. III that never made it off the ground, but we don't want to have him come in just to do what it is that he normally does. That would be a disservice to him and to us and to you. He has stuff in him that we have never heard and we hope to find those things and give them to you. He will be contributing vocals and guitars to the album, as well as contributing lyrics and songwriting ideas for his sections. We're going to try out a bunch of things, so we'll see what sticks when we're done.
In other news, the theme is already changing somewhat to focus more on urban alienation and nihilism. We found some really cool, if bleak bits. This will be interesting.
- Langdon
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We are Lithium and we are currently hunting for a label. Would you like to sign us?
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