Wormlust Collective Number One

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HE WORMLUS COLLECIVE #1

REYKJAVK

AD SUMPUS nostrae SANIAS E EMPORE MMXII

DISSECING

CREAIONAN D

INCANAIONS HROUGH WRI


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AN

INQUIRY

INO HE

NAURE AND REALIY

OF HEPAHS O HE VOID

AN INRODUCORY DISCOURSE, NOES, AND

SUPPLEMENAL DISSERAIONS

VOL. I.

REYKJAVK

MMXII


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Past

This creation before you is a collection of thoughts, spells

and reviews that try to project the era of 2009-2011 of

Wormlust to the reader, this is done in tandem with the release

of the CD version of The Wormlust collective by Murder sui-

cide/incidents. By collecting all this mana together we intend

to give these releases one unied voice, both from the sourceof their creation as well as from the interpetation of others.

A collective experience; Not interviews in glossy articles

whispering into an intellectual void but rather a shared space

of magic. This scroll is part archival, part zine but ulti-

mately the ritualistic burial of previous efforts.

Future

This year left in its wake burned instruments, months wasted

in solitude and hours upon hours of nightmarish music created.

The rst evidence of this will be HIN DRSLEGA VISKA whichin english would roughly translate to The celestial/bestial

wisdom. Those interested can contact Wormlust at hafsteinn1@

gmail.com to continue the dialogue.


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I. Martrair,or: (Nightmares, olk-lore and sleep paralysis.)

II. Dissecting incantations. Oblivio appositus and the triune

III. Te review collective.

IV. Kollvrpun; eliminating barriers


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I. Martrair

or: (Nightmares, Folk lore and sleep paralysis.)


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Words have power is a o-uttered idiom and like so many other weath-ered thought experiments it has a core truth to it. For example in judeo-christian myth only the utterence o a single word creates existence itselor a omnipresent creature and its playthings. In everyday situations weourselves breathe the fire o lie into every day objects by calling up in our

minds the labels we have learned to place upon them through our years oliving. By learning these words in childhood we have slowly and assuredlygained dominion over our surroundings. By time select ew definitions andwords even gain more power in our minds than others, some will recantthese words when aced with strie or danger. We may live in a post-pressrevolution,post-mythic reality and not really eel the power o all thosewords we possess but that doesnt eraze either their power or legacy . Fol-

lowing the logic o old age magic we can by methodically stripping wordsdown to their core challenge their power and transer them to our own use.

For long we have experienced the eeling o being trampled uponby malevolent orces, waking up and being unable to move. Know-ing what it is to be prisoners o our own bodies in moments that seemunending. rying to shake ourselves into waking, only to all back into

a state o intense visions and aer what eels like an eternity experi-encing it all over again. Completely immersing ourselves with night-mares. Years went by beore we got to know our enemy and applied thelyricism and symbolism o myths to these unnamed demons.

Te icelandic word martr which means experiencing intensenausea and powerlessness while sleeping is a composite o the proto-Indo-European word mara and the icelandic word traka. Maras canstrangely enough be ound both in icelandic olklore and tibetan myths,sharing a very specific ate o both being demons. For buddhists Marais the tempter, the ultimate enemy and all unknown orces combined inone entity. Te all-powerul lord o evil. Te icelandic demon has morein common with the succubi ound in islamic mythos, being a fiend thatrides on its victims chest and causing the sleeper nightmares. Te literal

meaning o the word is to die. r comes rom old-norse and means totrample. ogether mara and tr as martr simply mean nightmare.


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We consider ourselves to be rationalistst but also more in the line withthe old surrealist movement -opting to see the world through nightmarecolored spectacles. rying to examine true thoughts and emotions throughavenues o macabre visions. I steely matter-o-act art was the only thingto remain, then art in that hypothetical world could not really be consid-

ered art, since art remains to realm o other worldy creations. It is howwe distinguish ourselves rom the mindless beasts o this world - yet whatdoes it mean to be a beast? In our culture serial killers are could be consid-ered beasts yet many o them are also skilled artists. Artists that murder. Murder, the act which by societys definitions is what changes us romman to these lowly creatures that belong only to bad dreams, but it couldbe reasoned that murder as an act is to be considered art, - even possibly

the ultimate artorm. As it is certainly is thinking outside the box, giv-ing into pure impulses and then carving these desires permanently untoother human beings - giving them their last and most intense experienceo their lives. But I we were to accept the serial killer as an artist and hisacts as happening o sorts why stop there? Every moment where we takesomeone out o their state o every day trance could be equivelent to a wellcraed melody or a moving painting. Tese small acts might even be last

reuge o art in our desensetized world, like surrealism was a response tostagnation in its by time taking people out o their comort zone - could it

even be the next thing?Most likely not, since these perormances are too intimate to have

any impact on a larger scale, it is work thats done under pseudonym doneor the sake o its sel, affecting handul o people. Te ruth is that mostseem to eel the need to see their names in headlines, terrorists or in-stance like many aamed artist do their work under a slogan to promotetheir own name rather than the ideal thats supposedly behind the catchphrases and violence, Smokes and mirrors.

Tis is testament to the act that the more ame people seek or theunpurer their art becomes since their goal is not the conception o the artitsel but in act the lust or being recognized, being idolized by strangers.We should aspire to rather be the creatures o others nightmares than theools in their newspapers.


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II. Dissecting incantations.


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Oblivio appositus.

Te rough concept o these two recordings were written about twoyears prior to being ully fleshed out in their current orm. Mostly artis-

tic flurishes and such were added on later in the process but the idea itselhad always been ully ormed in our head. Te larvean Inauguration isa thought experiment on the sudden sel awareness/birth and subsequentdeath/devourment o a god by its Id. Te overall theme o the lyrics is acrude socratic question and answer method within the boundaries o atale that poses an argument:

a)What defines a god as a god in monotheism is that it is a perfect being without any flaws, butthis force must also be geo-centric , listening to our prayers so to speak.

b)If a god is a sentient being in our sense of the word then he wouldbe a slave to the same thought lowly patterns in which we define it.

c)Terefore this hypothetical god would be flawed and therefore not exist.

Te narrative itsel has upon the stage two players, the god andthe Id, in this case Id has ound the orm o a worm - symbolically eat-ing through the mind and flesh o its host when it animates itsel. Inthe background the universe created around is also born and instantlydies. Not unlike the tale o saturn and his children only with the roles

reversed, the gods subconscious being in effect the child o its mind.We can also think o the worm in terms o anti-matter, always grav-itating to a state o unbeing in our sense, the counterpart to matter.Tis is the essence and meaning o the words that together become worm-lust, the unknowing desire o all flawed things to become non-existant.


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riune

Reincarnation, a sickening proposal. Similar to being stuck on cosmiclie support without being able to move or all eternity and all subse-

quent perceivable eternities to come. In this scenario since all o liespaths eventually lead you to the starting point the number seven whichis being reerred to is irrelevent, which might as well be the billionthpath - the number is solely there as a reerence to the seven ages omen. Men stuck in a system o eternal limbo, a system in which to usenlightenment must then be the pursuit towards the sweet relie o the

void.

Te afformention Seven paths as a release is a part o a bigger narrative,one work which is split into three by times o their completion, but arein act one singular creation.

Te subject matter is the the overall concept o an aerlie, and theear o being placed in celestial gardens with the same petty thoughts wecarry with us through live or all o eternity -truly is a ghoulish thought.Being put in a prison where the bars are our inerior ape-like thoughtswith no hope o parole or all o eternity. Looking out on the unattain-able, slowly losing taste or lie eternal, the golden apples turned sour,- ear undescribable whispers. Te prospect o watching those around usstruggle with these same terrors as oursel and silently driing into de-mentia on the elysium fields.Ultimately the lyrical content is a hymn tothe void or svarthol - asking to be allowed touch the hems o its anti-lie

garment.Te namesake release Svarthol and ollow up as a recording to Sev-en Paths is an attempt to convey the sensation o being pulled towardsthe center o a spiritual void and in the end being ground up by the orc-es that are at work to cancel out any shred o matter.

Following that is Te Opium sleep which as a piece could be stylis-tically be thought o as anti-music, finally establishing the act that what

once was, is no more - Only slowly ading echoes o a sentient beingremain.


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III. Te review collective


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What follows are the writings of others on the project, their interpretations and projections have been collectedhere together within to both honour their time and efforts as well to create an independent documentation. o

preserve their work as well as a specific period in time.

Tis (Wormlust) is another Reykjavk band I discovered through a

reader comment (rom Altargoat) on that earlier post about Svar-tidaui and Vanskpun, and then I saw the name again on a Fa-cebook status by Gone Postal, who described Wormlust as an ex-ceptional take on ambient/psychedelic/black metal, and a bandwhose music influenced Gone Postals album-in-the-works. Wormlust appears to be the alter ego o one H.V Lyngdal, who wasthe ounding member o an earlier band named Wolfeart. Wormlust

recorded a single-song demo on Volkgeist Productions (Seven Paths)and a split with an Irish black metal band named Haud Mundus calledOblivio Appositus, which was released by otal Holocaust Recordings.In 2010, Wormlust released another single-song demo titled Svarthol,and then an instrumental demo in 2011 named Te Opium Sleep.

Fortunately or me, Wormlust created a Bandcamp page that col-

lects Seven Paths, Svarthol, and Te Opium Sleep in a com-pilation called Te Wormlust Collective. Each song is quite long, andthe compilation as a whole totals more than 45 minutes o music and it can be downloaded on Bandcamp or ree (or ordered as a CD).

Because I really wanted to get this post done today, beore Mayends, I only listened to Svarthol though it has convinced me tohear the rest o the comp asap. Te song is more than 16 minutes longand it travels through a changing soundscape o persistent ascination. Te beginning casts a spell o slow, dreamlike ambience, with echoingguitars ringing over a heart-like pulse. In the songs second segment, spaceysynth/guitar effects set the stage, and the guitars then roar like a giant hornetswarm over submerged, rancid vocals and rumbling drum blasts. A slower,doomier passage then ollows, the atmosphere growing more ominous andclaustrophobic beore a moment o silence descends a silence that acts asa bridge to the gradually building crescendo o the songs next phase. It ris-es in a cascade o storm-like ury thats nonetheless melodic and hypnotic.


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Te storm finally spends its orce, leaving behind an opening sky,the music painting images o a dark atmosphere slowly pierced by rayso light, or clouds scudding beore the ace o an illuminating moon.Te song ends dramatically with one final burst o roiling intensity.

I like this very much. -Nocleansinging, 2012.

Another antastic pieces rom the deunct but always wonderul icelandiccorpse, Wormlust. Ive talked about this band previously here on FxC, youcan check it out here and here. I youre into high quality Black Metal i to-tally recommend this band to you. Te atmosphere created by Wormlust is

just mind blowing, simply the best material in this genre ive ever heard inmy lie. So, in order to complete Wormlusts discography i bring you todayits final breaths, Svarthol rom 2010 and Te Opium Sleep rom lastyear. Sadly, theres only one track to each Demo. Svarthol is a abulous 16minute track o the most brilliant atmospheric Black Metal ever made, thesound is very good and it just makes me mad that a band like this had toend... why?? I curse you H.V Lyngdal, rom the day you came out o yourmothers womb. Why did you had to make such brilliant music like this as

Wormlust and then le us, wandering blinded by your magnificent hymnsin this dying world o illusion? Guess we will never know the answer. TeOpium Sleep is strictly an ambient/instrumental track, clearly the lastexpiring last breath o air coming out rom Wormlust. Its the perect songto hear i you were the only person le alone on this planet. Tey say eve-ry genius has touch o madness. But dont we all? Highly Recommended.

-Forevercursed blog, 2012.


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Art defined as the act o personal expressionH.V Lyngdal, the main figure o WORMLUS, has released a new demo,consisting o just one amazing track, DRENCHED with Atmosphere.For all Atmospheric BM ans.

Under the influence o days o sleep deprivation we started record-

ing things we would not have been created otherwise, We kept on pushingmysel and recording until the music started to smother everything out ous. It is the map to our streams o consciousness or the listener then todrown in. We like having total control in Wormlust, and idea o control it-sel. With music we can influence a person aurally into a certain mood by

something that we create. Art defined as the act o personal expression out-side o the primal urges does not exist we believe. Its all about dominance.By ourselves we e can keep the overall vision and ultimately the control.

-Te le hand trident,2010.

Pure, debilitating bleak reveries rom the Icelandic genius behindWormlust. Te two tracks on display here are monuments o aggression

and rightul visions. Stylistically akin to the more possessed momentso Leviathan, Wormlust weaves horriying atmospheres with drawn outambient sections and angular guitar melodies. Te vocals, an acerbicmixture o ull-bodied howls and throat-centered murmurs, cap thelyrical content perectly. Wormlust has more in common with the mod-ern school o black metal, with tremolod, drawn-out riffs and predilec-tion or grandeur atmospheres: a haunting, visceral journey through the

catacombs o delirious nightmares. Varied and engaging, a voyage quiteunlike the stagnant beast that was Wrests latest effort.


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Haud Mundus meet Wormlust with a more restrained take on proceed-ings. Sections o haunting ambience are interspersed with powerul or-ays into minimal but engaging black metal, akin to the industrial tingepresent on Lunar Auroras latest opus. Haud Munduss strength differsrom the abrasive, engaging and maniold textures o Wormlust by bur-

rowing into your consciousness with hypnotic, subliminal tones. Youbecome entranced. Both projects represent varied, upper-tier black met-al complete with deep, empowered production values and should not bemissed. One o the most under-acknowledged splits in recent years.

-Lurkers path,2012.

Something else Ive been sitting on. Wormlust is a deunct black metalband out o Iceland consisting solely o H.V. Lyngdal. His discographyconsists solely o a fistul o demos and one split with Haud Mundus,which is a shame because what little exists is really top quality stuff.Orthodox black metal intermingles with dark ambient in Wormlustscompositions, creating an aura that is at once claustrophobic and at-mospheric, brooding, and desolate. And also only tangentially related toorthodox, second wave black metal.

Lyngdal eschews the shitty-on-purpose production values andplodding tempos typical in bedroom black metal. Wormlust goes waybeyond that. Tis is truly haunting material think Sunn O)))s BlackOne, GY!BEs F#A#, or 2001s stargate sequence or some totallynot-black metal comparisons. Yeah, theres tremolo picking and blast-ing and all that good stuff, but that doesnt describe how it eels, man.

Moreover, those pure black metal sections have more in common withWitR or Panopticon than Mayhem or Darkthrone.

-Junkyard god, 2012.


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Wormlust became the talk o the ber-underground townwith the release o demo and a split with Irelands Haud Mun-dus. An impressive Black Metal project with twisted ambience se-curing it in the modern yet mysterious and dark spectrum.

-Reykjavik Grapevine magazine, 2010.

Wormlust is a newer black metal band rom Iceland. Im hesitant tocall it atmospheric black metal because I dont want to give the wrongimpression. Wormlust doesnt throw atmosphere on top o blackmetal - it uses black metal to create atmosphere. Lyngdal, the onlymusician currently behind Wormlust, has also brought up the psyche-

delic influences in his music, but theyre not the ocus o the project.Te sound bears some resemblance to both Fell Voices and Rebirth oNeast, but Wormlust is superior to both. I youre into droning blackmetal (and not the Russian kind where theyre so busy being Nazisthey orget to write music) with crushing atmosphere, give this a shot. Recommended listening: Start with Seven Paths (their best IMO) andthen move onto Svarthol. Oblivio Appositus is good but eatures a guest vo-

calist or its entirety. Sadly, Ive been unable to track down the 2006 demo.

-Loadown,2010.


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Oblivio Appositus brings together the talents o two o the younger, douracts o the North Atlantic Ocean, a orm fitting collaboration that sees itsshare o both atmospheric metal riffing and long, beautiul passages oambiance. Irelands Haud Mundus is the product o Wann and Gast, bothmembers o the more traditional black metal band Myrkr; Gast also late

o the promising Sol Axis and Slidhr. Wormlust is the brainchild o H.V.Lyngdal, who spends time between his native Iceland and England. I hadalready some exposure to the latter, reviewing the 2009 Wormlust democalled Seven Paths, which consisted o a single, 12+ minute long track,and a damned good one at that. But outside o Sol Axis and Myrkr, I hadnot heard Haud Mundus prior to the split...

Clearly, judging by their contributions to this release, I have beenmissing out, because their two tracks here are quite magnificent exampleso the balance possible between the black and ambient genres. Veins oStone is over 13 minutes, opening with a cavernous cacophony o morbidgloom and ringing hammer-like strikes, rom which a slicing, huge guitartone soon erupts, and becomes even huger as the duo lumbers through anumber o devious, crashing poles. Forever Desiccate the Seed is brieer,at around 8 minutes, but its also denser and aster, more o a traditionalblack metal at first, then branching out into a number o ambient segues,like a mix o Shining and Raison dEtre. Id also point out that the produc-tion used by Haud Mundus is massive and accessible, a sure sign that theband could be taken very seriously in this particular sub-strain, courtedby labels who value fidelity alongside other credibility.

Wormlust, too, has adopted a more bold i calamitous sense or pro-duction, and his two pieces here trumph the Seven Paths demo by meas-ure o aggression alone. ruly, this is a rightening experience, Lyngdalsull, bloodied throat casting a ghastly pallor over the surging threads oSurge - About the Death o a God and the dusky, swelling phantasmthat is Te Larvean Inauguration (Or: A Feast or the Animal o Reflec-

tion). Tematically and stylistically, the material is not a ar shot romHaud Mundus, so together the two flow like o wet stream o cursed con-crete, its mortar drawn rom the blood o angels and innocents. I elt thatWormlust was inherently more caustic and chaotic, with almost random


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segues into wild ambient, but he compensates by being the more horrificentity o the split.

Te release itsel is quite attractive, with a striking bloodied crownon its ace, and a lyric booklet included with the digipak. Im not accus-

tomed to splits with great art direction, and though by all appearancesthis is minimal, I really loved the cerebral imagery it projected as I waslistening to these interesting bands. Haud Mundus and Wormlust areboth worthy o taking the reins rom the now-deunct Xasthur, perhapsLeviathan, oining their voice into the chorus o obscurity championedby many devotees o Burzum and other dire progenitors. Teir pairinghere can be no accident, because they both share the same skill at creat-

ing discomort through laxing and swelling climes o glacial ascination.

-Autothrall, 2010.

Te split release o Irish Haud Mundus and Icelandic Wormlust is di-ficult to put into words. Tis is how the label starts their presentationo this split album, and it couldnt be put more accurately. Te task o

orming words while listening to this seems useless but perhaps in-credibly important. I rate this split highly. Tis is just the kind o mu-sic that sinks in i youre in the mood or it; and i you are, this onesa grand jewel. Violent and rich in sound and details, Haud Mundustransports the mind attached to human flesh into something unexplain-able. Remind yoursel to play this when youre in the right mood. I youcrave awesome riffs, put Slayer on. Tis is a multi-complex affair that

one only copes with individually and in solitude. I I had to make somesort o tabloid explanation, I would say that, whereas Haud Munduswould appeal to those o you who enjoy the more violent and chaoticparts o Deathspell Omega, Wormlust seems to conjure music into an


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unworldly dream-state. And these are not the dreams your parents wantyou to have. Both these bands have a weird way o putting their musictogether. It can still be termed music, but it somehow also challenges thedefinition o music. Teres more to this than words can describe. Scum

-Nordic vision magazine, 2011.

Split-Verffentlichungen sind zu einer sonderbaren Erscheinung amPlattenmarkt verkommen, weil in Zeiten des superschnellen Internets[und der nicht minder beeindruckend flotten Medienpiraterie] in ast

jede beliebige Band reingehrt werden und sich ebenso rasch entschei-den kann, ob einem das vorgelegte Material nun taugt oder nicht. DerWeg, an Frischfleisch r die Anlage zu kommen, hat sich durch denWegall von Mailorder-Listen und Gratis-Beigaben bei groen Bes-tellungen verkrzt, womit nur noch die untergrundigsten PC- undNetz-Verweigerer im Black Metal au dieses Format zurckgreien.Bei aller knstlich herbeigehrter Romantik, die bei Splits anno 2010zwangslufig mitweht, muss man ganz nchtern attestieren, dass dieletzte ausnahmslos tolle Angelegenheit in dem Bereich au den NamenTe Forest is My Trone / Yggdrasill, nzehn Lenzen zhlt und seit-

dem nie wieder qualitativ eingeholt wurde. An dieser atsache ndertauch die vorliegende Zweisamkeit im Plattenormat zwar auch nichtviel, lsst aber rein vom Inhalt her hier und da durchaus auforchen.

Den Anang machen die bis dato recht unbekannten Ge-sellen von HAUD MUNDUS, dessen Personal sich mit dem des Ge-genspielers berschneidet; schlielich werkelte Gitarrist Wann

auch kurz bei den Islndern. Musikalisch verolgen die ersten zweiStcke einen RUINS hnelnden Black/Death-Mix, hier allerd-ings au epischen Lngen ausgewlzt sowie dank Einsatz einer stim-mungsvollen Hintergrundklangwand um einige Grade dsterer.


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Es ist interessant, zu beobachten, wie verschiedene Stuen der Intensitterreicht werden; der Vergleich eines mal strker, mal schwchender wer-denden Monsunregens drngt sich geradezu au: Die Gitarren sind im S-gen und Beien genauso gut wie im Erzeugen semiakustischer, verstrendtraumhaer Klangwelten. Von einem Moment au den anderen schlgt

die Stimmung um, wobei sich das Duo in der Darbietung selbst keineSchnitzer erlauben, sondern einen mit der schieren Wucht ihres Soundsaus den Socken hieven; vor allem deswegen, da das Gesamtpaket einachstimmt. Es kommt den beiden Protagonisten nicht in den Sinn, in die bli-chen Fettnpchen wie Standard-Fllerideen und dergleichen zu tapsen,was man schon als eine wohltuende Abwechslung in diesem Genre sehenkann. Veins O Stone und Forever Desiccate Te Seed protzen jeden-

alls voller Charakter, der zum erneuten Hren einldt. berraschend gut! Weniger euphorisch hingegen llt das Urteil r die nchsten beidenBeitrge zu diesem Gemeinschastontrger aus. WORMLUS verste-hen es zwar ormell sehr gut, rohes Schwarzmetall abzulieern, allerdingsist den Songs genau jener Fehler behaet, der zuvor vermieden wurde: stil-istische Gewohnheiten, denen man schon zu o Gehr geschenkt hat undmir zumindest schon gehrig am Sack gehen. Diese Baustelle gewhrt ihrerLeidenscha r rohes, ber weite Strecken monotones Gerdel, der ohnegeniale Geistesblitze auskommen muss. Form minus Inhalt also. Sonder-lich schrecklich klingt das hier zwar nicht, jedoch verliert es sehr schnellan Reiz. Angesichts dessen, was uns Gast [ich wei...] sonst so - insbeson-dere bei REBIRH OF NEFAS - vor den Latz geknallt, ein wenig schade.

Wenn man nach mathematischen Mastben verhrt, so muss

man natrlich die ade Masse, mit der WORMLUS ihren eil zurPlatte beitragen, bei der Bewertung genauso in Betracht ziehen wiedas bislang antastische Schaffen von HAUD MUNDUS. Ich bin auszwei Grnden nicht bereit dazu: Das Digipak macht einen schniekenEindruck und gellt mir rein von der Aumachung als ast alles An-dere in dem Gebiet da drauen und zum Zweiten macht es keinenSinn, angesichts der klaren berlegenheit HAUD MUNDUS strikt

nach dem Gleichheitsprinzip vorzugehen. Fn knappe Punkte alsor eine Verffentlichung, die ab dem dritten Stck verzichtbar ist? JA!

-Metalnews, 2010.


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Wormlust released an absolute gem o horrific black-ambient this yearin Svarthol; a record good enough, in act, to get me to ork out or thissplit rom last year with Irelands Haud Mundus. On Oblivio Appositus,though, you can largely orget Svarthols washed-out expanses o proggyclean ambiance. Both bands are largely on the same hideous page here, o-

ering a portmanteau o misshapen and grumbling depressive black met-al. And, i you are in the mood, it is a captivating orty minutes o music.Haud Mundus open with two contributions. Te 13-minute monstrositythat is Veins o Stone is slithering and ormless, repeatedly dying away intopassages o abstract noise and sinister melody, beore kicking up again intopulsating, barbarous riffing that evokes a more muscular Ruins o Bever-ast. Its hard to find any real structure to it, but perhaps this doesnt really

matter i you are craving the aural equivalent o being dragged through athorny ditch by your hair, or the entire duration o an icy winter night.And thats why you buy sort o thing, isnt it? Forever Desiccate the Seedinitially seems more shapely, opening with some almost Opeth-ian 6/8melodic fire, but this too derails again and again into ghastly catacombso hissing death sound effects and grimly mumbling clean melodies.

Not to be outdone, Wormlust ollows this Lovecraian weird-ness with something quite similar. Tis Icelandic projects contribu-tions are an exceptionally dark brace o tracks, winding slowly throughcrawling, dissonant riffs and dripping, uzzy ambiance to create some-thing quite spectacularly horrible. Te Larvean Inauguration openswith a ormlessly writhing mess o hazy black metal guitar and rusty

percussion, building up a kind o shambling steam into a decayed pro-cession o groaning non-riffs. I cant think o anything which justsounds as unrelentingly pestilential, and as cacklingly otherworldly. I you search, you will find melodies here, sometimes touching ones,but dont listen to it or that reason. I you pay attention you will also findriffs, oen crunching and menacing, but dont listen to it or that rea-son, either. Listen to Oblivio Appositus because it is a rightening record,

which evokes unathomable cosmic horror in your mind as powerullyas any film or literature. Tis is what black metal should really be about.

-Metalreviews, 2011.


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Now this has become my latest drug. Te split release Oblivio Ap-positus o irish Haud Mundus and Icelandic Wormlust is difficultto put into words. Haud Mundus presents insight into the ailed spir-it o man, while Wormlust offers an indescribable passage into oth-erworldly desolation. Tis collaboration between both sees its share

o atmospheric metal riffing and long, beautiul passages o ambiance.

Haud Munduss two tracks are quite magnificent examples o thebalance possible between the black and ambient genres. Veins o Stoneis over 13 minutes, opening with a cavernous cacophony o morbid gloomand ringing hammer-like strikes, rom which a slicing, huge guitar tonesoon erupts, and becomes even huger as the duo lumbers through a num-

ber o devious, crashing poles. Forever Desiccate the Seed is brieer,at around 8 minutes, but its also denser and aster, more o a traditionalblack metal at first, then branching out into a number o ambient seg-ues. Te production used by Haud Mundus is massive and accessible,a sure sign that the band could be taken very seriously in the uture.

Wormlust, too, has adopted a more bold i calamitous senseor production. ruly, this is a rightening experience, Lyngdals ull,bloodied throat casting a ghastly pallor over the surging threadso Surge - About the Death o a God and the dusky, swelling phan-tasm that is Te Larvean Inauguration (Or: A Feast or the Animalo Reflection). Also the artwork or Oblivio Appositus is beauti-ul. Be the privileged one to own not only this beautiul Digipack but

a splendid piece o sonic art here. One o the best BM releases i heardso ar, although its release is rom 2009(!). Highly Recommended!

-Forever cursed, 2011.


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one song demo, nasty atmospheric black metal rom Iceland. ran-dom kind o wanky rock parts towards the middle/end that ac-tually are pretty sweet. ormerly known as Wolfeart. dig it.

-Hate your species, 2009.

Icelandic Wormlust was previously known as Wolfeart, having re-leased several demos in the past. With the change o name has comea shi in tone, and or this s/t demo the band has produced a sin-gle 12 minute track that travels rom droning, aggressive black met-al to periods o stark majesty across a desolate grey landscape.

Seven Paths is quite good and hopeully an omen or what isto come. Te guitars are churning vortices o disturbing chords, andwhenever the band breaks or some sort o interlude we are treatedwith introspective guitar work and ringing explorations. Te vocalsare hoarse and troubling, like someone whispering at you rom a sew-er while the sounds are amplified. Ive been exposed to a great manyunderground black metal acts touting atmosphere or ambience, but

Wormlust sounds quite original. Well worth tracking down this demo.

-Autothrall, 2010.


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Demo edito dalla Volkgeist Prod. ci racconta le evoluzioni sonore del pro-getto Wolfeart. Questo era inatti il primo nome del combo fino al 2008.Questa la line-up del progetto : H.V Lyngdal tutti gli strumenti; Wann

voce. Combo proveniente da Reykjavk (Islanda) e Londra (Inghilterra)ci propone un particolarissimo black metal con tematiche che vanno dal-

la disperazione pura alla morte. Il gruppo si orma nel 2003 e nello stessoanno ci regala il primo demo, ne seguieranno poi altri due nel 2004 enel 2006 per giungere al nuovo lavoro del 2009. Con questo ultimo la-

voro (il loro quarto demo) ci propongono una lunga ed articolata com-posizione di dodici minuti che da il titolo al demo. Seven Paths , comedicevo prima, lunica traccia del demo. Si tratta di uno splendido branoche ci porta, fin dal principio, direttamente nel mondo, arcano e senza

speranza, propostoci dal combo islan ese. Dopo unintroduzione sulureadi appena trenta secondi, lascoltatore viene subito risucchiato nel vor-tice sonoro prodotto dal duo islandese. Puro black metal tirato, violentoe particolarmente intenso. Per circa un minuto non troviamo nessuna

variazione compositiva e stilistica. Dopodich il pezzo si a sempre piclaustroobico e opprimente, assieme alla voce sussurrata e deprimente.Dopo un urlo disumano, troviamo il primo vero stacco, la prima pausadel brano, attorno al terzo minuto. Dopo la pausa, latmosera del brano,complice un ottimo arpeggio chitarristico, torna sulurea e trasognante(seppur sempre opprimente). Dal quinto minuto il pezzo riprende quotae torna ai asti velocissimi iniziali. Puro black metal tirata e sparato in ac-cia, condito da uno scream-vocals sussurrato che inonde nellascoltatoreunangoscia incredibile. Il black metal dissonante creato dal duo molto

particolare, oserei dire unico nel suo genere. Con lo scorrere del temposar un continuo di cambi di tempo, ritmo e sumature musicali. Eccezi-onali gli inserimenti di chitarra e basso, assolutamente rivedibile la bat-teria programmata e il cantato che sempre sussurrato-parlato, mentrein alcuni parti uno scream duro e crudo avrebbe senzaltro reso meglio.Ma sono dettagli proprio per cercare la pulce nelluovo, per intenderci.Ununica traccia, un viaggio lungo oltre dodici minuti.Un black metal

dissonante che marchia in modo indelebile lonesto lavoro del gruppo.Levoluzione sonora dei Wolfeart innegabile e questo lavoro la provadella loro maturazione artistica.

-D85, 2010.


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Extremely solid split debut, eaturing two tracks each rom strong up-and-comers. Tere is a slight contrast in the styles presented here, with HaudMundus putting more emphasis on atmospheric dissonance and Wormlustclearly going or a more straightorward output (in comparison, their offeringis anything but straightorward in a larger context), though they mix really

well and still manage to bridge their sides with common themes and sounds.Mesmerizing riffs and passages, lots o tempo changes, haunting vocals. Pro-duction is crisp and natural, everything sounds just the way its supposed to.

Its a true pearl, well worth checking out or any an o bands that playmore technical and atmospheric black metal.

-Madbringer, 2010.

Pretty awesome washed out atmospheric BM. I preer the Worm-lust side, though it is probably the more straightorward o the twobands here. Anyone into the likes o Weakling, Xasthur, and anyo the less riffy, more hypnotic black metal should probably checkthis one out. Looking orward to ull lengths rom both bands!

-Manbient, 2010.

Uncompromising, yet varied single track EP, where monolithic, powerulblack metal blasts intertwine with more atmospheric, even droning passag-es. While the latter remind me o sludgy Jesu shoegaze pop, the metal partsare simply crushing your head, thanks to unusual drumming style, similarto chaotic patters o Deathspell Omega, but also due to strange, whispering

vocals and interesting guitars, which blend into pitch-shiing knob workand slo-mo madness. I hope they experiment more on urther releases!

-necro666.


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Everybody and their mother is talking about atmospheric black met-al these days. Sure enough, theres a tidal wave o bands trying to gettheir piece o the pie, by throwing in some ambient keyboard nois-es and drag their otherwise uneventul songs out. As a result they getpassed off as atmospheric black metal. And everybody is happy. Ex-

cept this guy here. I worry about the genre getting played out allthe while coming across ar too many acts that think they have a or-mula and the end result is equally as inspiring as an empty cereal box.

Icelands WORMLUS is Hasteins Lyngdals latest outburst withinthe realm o extreme music. Its is also a project he seems to be mostinvolved in and content with these days. And it shows on Seven Paths.

Lyngdal effortlessly knits together a soundscape, a journey i you will,that has an engaging beginning, and a natural and ulfilling conclusion. Being a long, one track body o music there is plenty to takeaway rom it. Its haunting and atmospheric qualities jumpat you at first and hook in you but repeated listens will re-

veal successul layering that makes this such a powerul piece.

Lyngdals way o expressing his ideas is more thoughtul, sparse,careully timed and brooding than most o the stuff in this genre as olate. He trims down rather than over-loads. Tus each sound and eachriff is counted or. Te composition does not, like some other bands,hide shortcomings behind a wall o endless channels, sounds andmulti-layered arrangements. Te essentials are out in the open - na-

ked - or a lack o a better word. Te shortcomings are almost non-existent. Id preer a richer drum sound on uture releases though. Were it not or his sensitivity to smart song writing, this ap-proach might expose this lack thereo. But in WORMLUSs caseit does the opposite. It highlights said sensitivity, and ultimate-ly, this young musicians talent and understanding o the art orm.

Black metal enthusiasts with a tad conservative streak need not avoid. Tetrue actor is present via the monotonous blast-beats and simple riffage. Ilike the tasty reverb on the guitar, giving them a eel o hollowness yet fillingout the crease just right. Specific moment o true is one calm/slow-into-


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-ast section transition, using a simple cue o 1,2,3,4, snare break. Fantastic!

Te keyboards and all additional ambient sounds do not saturatethe sound space. Rather, they add something eerie instead o fighting thesongs. On top o that are the cold, hoarse and dynamic vocals. Screech-

ing one moment, howling the next, showing a larger range than Im usedto in the genre. In doing all this, even the true elements are rereshing.

Seven Paths is not complicated nor is it technical. It is demanding andstimulating. One section is particularly memorable and evil. A single stringriff, minor notes a plenty, climbing up, crossing rets with no regard or thetempo o the drums, backed up with low-pitched moaning voices. Seri-

ously. Its like a maelstrom o demons approaching. Unsettlingly brilliant. Another stroke o progressive thinking is the part with buzzsaw riffing, played over drums that slow down and go off-tem-po on purpose just to uck with you. wisted little detail therethat you cant ignore nor help be impressed by. It takes courage.

Seven Paths is remarkably cohesive considering its pro-gressive nature. Presenting it as one track, connected by flu-ent transitions was a wise decision indeed. Sporadic its not.WORMLUS has my attention and then some. Get this demo and watchthis space. Something enigmatically wicked is burrowing to the surace here.

-Reykjavik Grapevine Magazine, Birkir Fjalar, 2010.

Following in much the same vein o the previous demos, this one (Svarthol)has taken it up a notch in terms o creativity, songwriting, and production.Its apparently sel-released, and I dont know where you can get it, but scourthe interwebs and you will surely find the download. Just one song, but onedamn good song o somewhat depressive, and somewhat melodic black metal.

-Hammersmashed sound,2010.


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Icelands Wormlust was Hasteins Lyngdals latest outburst within the realmo extreme music, he now plays in Pestuus, another cold Anti-Christiani-ty Black Metal act. But Wormlust was a project he seemed to be most in-

volved in. Wormlust effortlessly knits together a soundscape, a journey iyou will, that has an engaging beginning, and a natural and ulfilling con-

clusion. In this Seven Paths Demo, its haunting and atmospheric quali-ties, jump at you at first and hook in you but repeated listens will revealsuccessul layering that makes this such a powerul and cohesive piece.

Seven Paths is quite good as all material released by Wormlust. Teguitars are churning vortices o disturbing chords, and whenever the soundbreaks or some sort o interlude we are treated with introspective guitar

work and ringing explorations and Lyngdals vocals are hoarse and trou-bling, like the cold icelandic wind whispering thru the desolated fields. Ivebeen exposed to a great many underground black metal acts touting atmos-phere or ambience, but Wormlust, thru its originality, has really caught myattention. Something enigmatically wicked is burrowing to the surace here.

-Forever cursed, 2011.


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Tis is the obscure product o an (at present) one man band rom Ice-land; a demo recording that according to the projects website threat-ens to combine with 2009s Seven Paths to orm the first ever Worm-lust LP. Tat is an enticing prospect, because this is the kind o esotericrelease that could drive you slightly mad. Svarthol is a single track o

ambient black metal, 16 minutes long, which has really captured myimagination. It combines moody atmospherics with perplexing compo-sitional ideas into a everish quarter-hour o music that keeps you in-tently ocused on the sinister visions that it vivdly narrates, a short sto-ry o isolated insanity and desolate horror expressed through sound.So let me try and take you through some o this. We open with a slowheartbeat, and a crystal-clear wash o meandering guitar reverberations.

Tis eels both warm but intensely uneasy, the latter sensation winningout when this ades suddenly out, to be replaced by uncomortable, orm-less whistling sounds. Like Te Clangers in a 1950s mental asylum. Butnow jagged, hoarse black metal starts to claw at the sound emitting romyour speakers, like an uncomortable memory under ailing suppres-sion. Tis isnt a blistering, pit-igniting entry that scatters the ambientcobwebs. Instead, it alteringly ejaculates distorted noise beore abrupt-ly stopping, and then rantically grasping again, eventually establishingitsel as a lumbering wall o sound; non-riffs awkwardly shiing beatsand pitch like Deathspell Omega lapsing into a vomit-flecked drunkenstupor. And those whistling noises still whirr maddeningly overhead. As we progress deeper, Svarthol becomes something more recognis-ably- perhaps more conventionally- black metal, but still luxuriating in its

more esoteric realms. I hear a little o Te Ruins o Beverast in there; murky,oppressive progressions and ghostly blasting, soaked in uzz and misery. Te closing ew minutes here resurrect the exhausted opening ambi-ance, but now introducing a hissing, pulsating drum machine and with itan alien, industrial eel. Tat is, until the whole piece is killed off by the

very last minute o abrupt, buzzsaw black metal. Troughout, Svartholis prone to such sudden trail offs and re-entries, and these add quite ap-

propriately to the generally unstable mood this demo inflicts upon itseland the world around it. Tis is a bit o a shock, all told; a gripping andoriginal piece o music rom a project I hope to hear much more o soon.

-Metal reviews, 2010.


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Waves lap at distant shores. Delayed guitars wash over sparse am-bient drones. A heartbeat hums its rhythm in solidarity andis abruptly stopped. So begins the wild trip into Wormlustsworld o brilliant, melancholic and atmospheric black metal.

Wormlust is the vehicle o Icelands H.G. Lyngdal and one o con-temporary black metals truly underrated talents. With only a smatteringo demos and a split with Irelands Haud Mundis under his belt thus ar,2010ss offering, Svarthol continues to promise o more genius to come. Svarthol is 16 minutes and 37 seconds o mind-bending and nauseatingexperimentation. Te peaceul introduction gives insight into the momentso beauty that Wormlust are all too capable o creating, but the quiet is soon

shattered by waves o atonal and warped distortion, while an eerie slide gui-tar slices through the cacophony. Wormlust weaves between ull on assaultsand oppressive ambience with ease, oen descending into complete silence. Tese moments o respite place a narrative o sorts over the pro-ceedings, guiding the listener through different stages o Lyngdals per-sonal hell. Tats almost exactly how it eels to behold Svarthol; this isnot an upliing experience at any rate. Te whispered murmurings o amadman scrape over a composition that musters bewilderment, rustra-tion and pure malevolence. While this is by no means a depressive blackmetal release, it does want to drag you into the depths o melancholy.But moments o fleeting anthemic beauty do rear out o Wormlusts vor-tex o sound, all the more exciting when your ears catch hold o one. Tis has to be heard to be believed. A ucking brilliant release, I am

all aboard the hype train and hope that we are treated to more o Lyn-gdals aural insanity VERY SOON.Te cover is a work o art in itsel as well.

-Lurkers path,2010.


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1 demo track o really well done Depressive Black Metal with bits o Doomand Nordic style Black Metal Tis works in the mellow, serene sounds just aswell as the bombastic heavy elements. Warm guitar tone with a nice big, loudand downward spiraling eeling. Gets pretty ast & layered around 11:14.

Vocals are extended, distorted howls that come and go not arrom San Franciscos own Leviathan. Svarthol is broken into move-ments and moods that exhude endless tundras and landscapes withlittle to no human intervention. Wormlust is the sole work o Ice-lander H.V. Lyngdal. Tis is his/their 4th release overall (3 demos anda split with Irish BM band Haud Mundus). VERY recommended

-KSU stanord, 2010.

Te latest Wormlust demo, Svarthol, is a beauty. Listening to this 16:36minute opus is like being sucked into a black hole and flailing aroundinside it until it has chewed you up and spit you out into another dimen-sion. Move you it will.

-Reykjavik Grapevine magazine, 2010.


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IV. Kollvrpun.


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Eliminating barriers.

Kollvrpun* , is a creative device which or aesthetical reasons has some

motis in common with old age witchcra. It is also a method by whichthe intent is to override a mind that is either riddled with doubt or lacko ideas towards an artistic project. Te construction o the system itselis simple but has been proven effective and rewarding. But i you trivial-ize the process and do not take it in with an open mind then the youas an participant have already tainted the outcome with your doubtulmind and rendered it useless. It is intended to create specific bounda-

ries and spaces to work within because oen by creating these constric-tion and ollowing them is it when we most oen seem to destroy them.

When we have chosen which piece to ollow we then burn itimmedietly in the tradition o medieval curses to ampliy the experienceand also the intent behind the creation that is about to take place.

Steps:

1.Divide a piece o paper into six sections

2.Write a description on one side and a prime color or the other

3.ear the paper in six sections

4.ry to randomize the selection o which sheet you receive.

5.Burn the note

Descriptions can be either actions or descriptions of visual ideas.

If on side is an action then it negates the prime colour.

Examples of the interaction of visual ideas and prime colours:

Scattered ashes/Black, Swamp/brown, Ghostly arms/Grey, Burial mound/green.Examples of action: Minimalize, Destroy everything but the ourishes, Do

it without hesitation, The mistakes are the thing itself.


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