Hi there, guys. It's Langdon from the Theosophical Society again. It's been a really long time.

Last time you heard from us, we were planning a massive release of what amounted to close to twenty albums we were sitting on. We were really overdue for new studio material and, frankly, we were swamped with various personal shit. I had recently gotten divorced and was dealing with that, the other guys were dealing with a bit of burnout from playing for so long without any real break for more than a couple months at a time, and things were generally bad in our camp.

We reconvened maybe a month or so ago, just to see where all of us were. We decided to buy out the rights to the material we were sitting on from our record label so that we could release it for free through torrent sites. We're also hosting it on our website, which should update to have links to download them in maybe an hour. It won't be all 20 because we never actually finished recording most of them for various reasons, but we will release the ones that are done. Our label, Shiny Metal Ass Records, is fantastic, but we've decided to split with them. It was amicable. We just felt it was unfair to have them squandering their cash on us when, frankly, we're a bit out of commission in certain ways. I'll get to that in a moment. The albums are as follows:

Machines - s/t

This was a prog rock supergroup I formed a while back with various guys. Look it up. You'll be interested. It comes with three drum, bass, and vocal demos as a bonus.

Bardock - Magna Munde

This was the massive forty-minute tune that Enoch and the Bards recorded together a while back which hasn't been released yet. It was supposed to be the last thing they recorded, and it shows by how... honestly, we think it's one of the best things either band has ever done, but we're happier that they didn't stop. It was originally going to be released broken into a bunch of different tracks for scrolling, but we figured fuck it, so it's just one track now, as was intended when we recorded it with them.

Sudan - Fear

This was a very, very black metal album by the guys in Sudan. They were digging on Emperor, Agalloch, Twilight, Krallice, those kinds of bands, and crafted a rather bleak, folksy, and progressive black metal album, with bits of the post-metal and technical metal that their fans really love. It's not really my thing, but it's pretty good, yeah.

The Theosophical Society - Cosmogenesis

This was originally titled Cosmic Acid Freak-Out since it's a bit heavy on psychedelia and fusion, early Canturbury scene type stuff, with a little heaviness. We erred against it before, but since we're doing internet self-release, we're probably going to package in different artwork for the original title so you can pick which one you like more. These are meaty track, averaging at about 8 minutes or so, and includes a B-side that hasn't gotten an official release anywhere as a bonus track, that being the song "Boats Over Sunken Cities," recorded back while we were doing Grand Society Mk. II stuff.

Pharaohs - Pharaohs! 8: OHDaMn

This is a kind of nu-jazz electronic dance album that is precisely an hour long. It was released a while back as part of a big box set they put out, but we decided to put it out on its own.

Pharaohs - Pharaohs! 9: Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Arranged for Guitar, Piano, and Trap Kit

The title says it all. Jazzy takes on Beethoven's violin sonatas. This was something like four discs in the box set, but since it's digital, it's just one folder, and much cheaper for us.

Enoch - The Vaults V: The Grey

This is a very, very long set of all the songs cut from the two-album set White Mystery / Black Machine. It is comprised of 33 songs, one of which is over 20 minutes and several that are around 10.

More news in a bit. Enjoy the free music.

- Langdon

Jason: Shame that you won't be touring any more, but still, new music? FUCK YES.

Derek has a couple guitar sketches and things that he has decided to release under the Tremors name. This is the first time he's released something under this name in quite some time outside of various 7" and 10" records that were rather limited releases. This covers about the last couple of years in terms of writing for him and stays to a rather abstract, guitar/synth/drum machine/vocals set up. As you likely know, his work under the name Tremors is grindcore oriented, and typically of the more powerviolence, avant-garde arena, since he typically gets his more straight grind work done with Psychopathologist.

Tremors - The Pop Album

1. Sex with the Devil [0:29]
2. Earthly Remains [1:10]
3. Birth Wound [0:48]
4. Crawl from the Scrotum of Death [2:41]
5. Skullfucking a Mummy [1:09]
6. Blue-Skinned Gods, No. 1 - 9 [15:20]
7. Kiss My Balls and Suck My Taint [3:04]
8. Rutger Hauer Will Fucking Kill You [1:05]
9. Slaughtercaust [0:14]
10. Circus of Hammers [0:36]
11. Pissborne [7:01]
12. Angles of Dementia [2:14]
13. Crossing From the Shores of Life to the Rotten Flesh Temples in the Domains of the Guardians of Death [3:33]
14. Fuck! [0:12]
15. Broken-Finger Blues [0:10]
16. Bridgejumpings [1:06]
17. Stress [4:00]
18. Blue-Skinned Gods, No. 10 - 17 [11:07]
19. John Coltrane [0:39]
20. Blue-Skinned Gods, No. 18 - 19 [3:04]
21. A Kiss Goodbye On the Rain-Soaked Streets of New York City, Circa 1951 [6:50]

- Langdon

I'd like to describe my new album a bit. All of us here in the Theosophical Society play together a lot, or at least did up until we decided to take a bit of a break. I tend to write these things as exercises to warm up, which gears them in a rather technical, avant-garde direction. Most of them are just me programming a drum pattern deliberately as difficult to follow as possible, then writing guitar riffs and lines to follow it as closely as I can. I threw synths, warbles and drones on a couple of the tracks for texture while assembling these little snippets. Some of these are actually my complete demos for some of the heavier or more brutal tunes that we would wind up doing in Sudan, Psychopathologist and Dome Circe (whose album hasn't come out yet, I know). The demos changed so much with the other band members that I figured showing them as I wrote them with my names would offer a cool kind of look into where some of these riffs come from. The demos are typically the ones over 2 minutes long. The "Blue-Skinned Gods" suite, which runs for about half the disc, was comprised of little bits I cobbled together for what I intended to be the big finale for Tremors, but never really came to be. It was going to be my attempt at a kind of symphonic proggy raga grind. The tracks are built around raga drones on a sitar mixed rather high with some more technical and precise grind drumming going on underneath them, little symphonic flourishes and the like with me shredding in a rather clean, watery tone, cranking out grindcore lines in odd times. Ultimately, these are 19 of the sketches for the album that I have. There are more sketches, and I might look into finishing the album depending on how these are received, but they aren't really indicative of where it might go, which is why I feel safe releasing them. I broke them up because I didn't want them cutting the pace too much; a little bit is good, because it tells you that this album is more about fun and fuckery than my work in Sudan or the Theosophical Society, which is typically more serious. The last track is a straight hard bop jazz tune I played with the guys in Pharaohs (a sub-band of Enoch, for those who don't know) one day while they were working on an album. They didn't want any guests, so the album got cut from I think their third or fourth album, and the tapes got put in storage, but I figured it would be a good, weird way to end the album.

- Derek

In terms of what gets released next, we have no idea. We'll throw a poll up soon to gauge public opinion. This album will be released for a nominal fee of $3 for .WAV files and digital artwork.

- Langdon