Dear friends, living or dead,

it’s cold. In my tomb it’s even much more colder than cold. Everywhere is this white mass people call snow. Sometimes it’s pretty nice to look at, but if you cannot feed on humans because nobody is out with this weather it begins to tremble on my nerves. On one of these boring days I checked all my web presences and tried to see how much THE STORY OF DAGON has spread.

And I like what I have seen. From my website and from Jamendo people downloaded the album 315 times. Thats pretty good for making no advertisements at all. That’s how it should work, if you ask me.

Besides that nearly all of the books has gone. I was pretty surprised that people still an exclusive a little expensive edition of a release when the music is available for free. But that’s todays standard, I guess.

However. I have decided to add some new sites on the web. It’s Facebook, and you should all know about it. I do not plan to use this as my primary communication tool, but try to keep it up to date.

Here are the links:

Besides that, I have reactivate a forum. I usually get tons of e-mail and would like to utilize that forum to bring you all together. I think most of you have same interests. It’s there:

http://ghul.org/forum.html

This message board is hosted at nabble.com. If you already have a account there, you can use it easily. For all others – nabble is one of the old dinosaurs on the web. As far as I know 100% reliable on privacy and such. This board is free for all topis, so don’t hesistate to free your mind there. Hope to see you on the board!

Best regards,

Cy Ghul

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the new CULTES DES GOULES album has been released today! Since now you are able to download the whole album for free.

Please visit: http://www.cultesdesgoules.org

If you prefer a physical release, you are invited to visit the Ghul Shop at: http://www.ghul.org and buy it. This time the release comes as a book with 52 pages and the CD-R included. Inside the book you’ll find the original story DAGON of H. P. Lovecraft and a translation of it, done by Cy Ghul and his good friend Tim Eichhorn.

Illustrations are done by Seth Benneth, who is a rising star in the world of underground metal releases. Thanks Seth! As usual, photographs are taken by N. Michejew.

I have been working for this album for more than a year now. It’s in the kind of a radioplay. It’s a bit unusual, since there a more orchestral and depressing elements in it than rock basses. But I hope you like this musical experiment as I do and are willing to follow me this depressive path.

Please feel free what you think about this album and don’t be shy when it comes to recommendations.

Here are some links to give away:

* http://ghul.org/downloads.html
* http://www.lastfm.de/music/Cultes+Des+Goules/The+story+of+Dagon

Till we meet again,
Cy Ghul

fresh new meat for you Ghul-aholics!

SKADY – Eyn Raunen Im tannicht
MOLOCH – A journey to the vyrding
SHADOWDREAM – Part of the infinity
SPELL FOREST – Lucifer Rex

9 Euro each – please visit my shop.

We write the year 2009 and it the fifth time for me driving to Leipzig. My dear friends in Leipzig are surly glad that I am getting on their nerves again. The already small flat which could be labeled ‘higher than broad’ feels a bit smaller as I put all my technical devices on the table. And the worst of all, I fill up the kitchen with true bavarian food as a present. Well, I will buy everything in Leipzig, but bavarian taste is bavarian taste. Some days later I should regret, cause the half of it has been brought back to my car. Some food for the travel home, they said.

However. The journey was good this year. At least for me. Usually there were hundreds and thousands of cars blocking the highways. This year was a traffic jam too, but no problem. I was up so early that everything happened behind me. I asked myself: what’s going on in the other german states? Either german people have a travel to some foreign, sunny countries or they are having party with some Gothics in Leipzig. Are the other states actually empty?

But there was a bitter end. Some kind of traffic jam happened in Leipzig again, after I got my concert card and reached the WERK II. Hundreds of people here, cause everybody seemed to want to watch DIE FORM. I was accompanied by a friend and so I decided to wait with her till they’ll let us in. Usually I could go directly through the controls, since I had a photo pass, but I didn’t want to leave her alone (between all those evil looking people).
After 40 minutes of waiting time we got closer to our goal – the first gothics left crowd of waiting masses. DIE FORM would play in just a few minutes and so I left my friend and tried to get into the press pit in time. I felt that there were much more people at the WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN than ever. But that’s just a guess. Well, my friend made it into the hall too, only two songs delayed.

I managed it (and that was quite hard and rough) to get into the presspit in time. As soon as I was there, hall went dark. Somebody with gasmask entered the twilight stage and hided again behind his computer. Well, thats the thing with electro bands. Then heavy bass opens the sceen, a beamer was turned on, bringing light and movies on the wall. A dancer, dressed all in white, entered stage. Soon we knew how this show will go on: the dancer danced in a spectacular way to the atmospheric music of DIE FORM.
I mean this without any sarcasm: the arrangment was very detailled and told us about scary happenings: first the story of a dying butterfly, then the story of an undead. That peformance was great and really well done. It was a surprise and I forgot that there is just a man on the computer doing some playbacks. It’s theatre.

After the first dance, Éliane (vocalist) entered stage and began to sing in an utter darkness. It was good luck that her voice was mixed into the background. She would sing without pressure, with some wrong tunes. I wasn’t too impressed about that. Maybe the mixer should have turned on some compressors and maybe a harmonizer, but that way… no good.
Lucky as we was, the dancer safed the evening – at least mine. Cause there were some bitter pills here too. If you were somewhere in the back of the hall you couldn’t see anything from the performance. I guess, most people won’t have seen too much.
DIE FORM had some good ideas, a very good sound (surprise, it was playback) but could have used a better stage – a theatre stage, not a rock convert stage. Well, at least for me it was very good and will stay in mind for a long time.

SATURDAY – 30. May 2009

I was up extraordinary early on saturday. I wanted to check out ATARGATIS who played on the WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN for several times. Happening was in the Kohlrabizirkus. I know this band for quite a long time and wanted to see how they envolved myself. They call their music DARK GOTHIC METAL.
First tunes started, and vocalist Stephanie was on speed immediatly. She is wellknown with her second band DARKWELL too. With unbeatable positive attitude she jumped from the one corner to the next. She made up the songs with “Leipzig – how are you??” or “LEIPZIG ARE YOU STILL THERE???”. That kind of entertainment reminds me on rock vocalist DORO. I really think that Stephanie Meier can have the chance to walk in DOROs footsteps one day. But she needs to tell some more on stage besides always the same motivation cries. After a while those kind is getting a bit boring and male visitors concentrate more on the beautyful dress of Steffi. Female, so I guess, too.
Songs were mixed very well and band played in routine. But besides Steffi, there was less to see on stage. Her musicians hided behind their star and that was dissapointing. If they would have more action on stage, this would be great. If ATARGATIS feels the need to play more in the evening hours next year, they should invest some cycles in stage action.
On a sidenote, Drummer Shadrack was very impressing: he played with a click in the ear and managed to handle the synthesizer where other bands need a keyboarder. Well maybe Shadrak has been played by the syntheziser – who knows

Surprising is how ATARGATIS works with their fans: directly after the concert Steffi jumped in her shoes (she was on stage with bare feet) and met up with all the lads on the merchandise basar where she signed cards. Well, as already said, ATARGATIS could do much more than that, even when this is still a great band!

Afterwards – and not with bare feet – MEGAHERZ were on stage. Hall was quite full, even in that early hour. Thats maybe cause of MEGAHERZ, a band which is quite famous these times and is called as the heritage or even replacement of RAMMSTEIN some day. On the other hands it’s maybe cause of the much more people attending the festival.
MEGAHERZ had their guest under control immediatly – ok, nearly immediatly. Cause MEGAHERZ Frontman Lex struggled with some cables and went to the ground, ass first. But nothing happened, audience was under control. Very impressing songs and very competent musicians delivered a compact arrangment. Refrains was made to sing along with, and people did so. Loudly one song by one hit us directly in our face.

At some time the belt of Lex felt down, suddenly damaged. But he managed this problem like a pro: he asked the audience if somebody has problems with him, standing in underwear on stage. All the woman cried out loud expecting… well whatever, you know! While the concert goes on, the guy usually would come back to this little story and after a while I was bored of hearing all about his underwear – same thing like ATARGATIS before. Since MEGAHERZ is from bavaria too, maybe this a regional problem? Well, but the musical side of the show was very tight and good. Everything was mixed well, with a clear sound (as good as possible in the Kohlrabicircus). At least, hard drum kicks and precise riffing gave a straight and hard feeling for whole the time.

At the evening, Felsenkeller called. This one is a new location to the WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN. Its build in the architectural style called “Jugendstil”. Experts, forgive me if I am wrong. What I mean is high walls, wide rooms, huge lusters. It was a perfect ambient for that kind of bands and brought up a great atmosphere. The best one this year and I really would enjoy to watch concerts of this kind there on a regular basis. Even if I was a Werk II addicted before.

FANGS ON FUR opened the evening. That means very straightforward, oldschool Gothic Punk fronted by a female vocalist who dresses in arabian wear and bone chain. Besides that, she looks totally weird Her band mates do not wear arabian dresses, but look quite strange too. Lucky as we was, that music is really cool and made me thirsty for more. Song structures were quite simple, but immediatly blowed your mind after you heard it.

Show was presented competent and rocked like hell. No big surprises here – sound was very, very good and nobody could think bad about it. All instruments were crystal clear to hear. However, this band will definitly impress the masses again in future. But to make people totally crazy about them, that needs a bit more time. Music should go more under the skin. At the moment we speak of a gothic punk band, nothing more. Well, it worked for me and suddenly saw myself going directly to the merch basar and buying a FANGS ON FUR CD. This band has made it to my personal watch list. Thanks guys, for opening that evening so tight!

Afterwards THEATRE OF HATE: at the beginning of that show you may think on grabbing a beer. After two songs you get used to that sound. After five you are moving your old, decaying body to the vibes and afte eight you find yourself sing along with the band, even if you don’t have a clue bout the text.
THEATRE OF HATE is a rock band which was long on duty. Its fronted by SPEAR OF DESTINY vocalist Kirk Brandon. And to make it short, guys who like rock like JOY DIVISION played should urgently check out THEATRE OF HATE. Chances are, that songs like WESTWORLD already have taken place in you music mind and you already have heard of that band.

Like FANGS ON FUR THEATRE OF HATE had a very good, warm sound. Songs came like they are playing it five times a day. Just on the vocals sometimes one could reckognize some misleading tunes. But that wasn’t a problem, it just gave more charisma to the band.
Summed up, this was very tight, nobody can complaing about this show.
On a sidenote: the guy playing bass is the first lad I know who enters stage with a bottle of wine – and a glass! Jörg, the guy from german gothic rockers THE HOUSE OF USHER drank his stuff directly from the bottle at one of the past WGTs. Well, i guess Jörg is younger

The SCARY BITCHES was one of the must have bands at this years WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN. I own all CDs of em and meanwhile I even bought a t-shirt. That three old frumps just entered stage and start rocking like hell. No big deal, for them. Presence on stage of them is really incredible. At least the dresses are fascinating: spiders, bones, ankhs everywhere. And about music I don’t need to speak lots: nasty lyrics together with simple, buy straight-into-your-mind rock music.
The bitches came, saw and gained victory. Even with some technical problems (guitar muted while concert) were people catched immediatly by the songs. Just one drawback: the chicks played mostly stuff from their new CD THE ISLAND OF THE DAMNED. That album was available just a week before the gig and the songs weren’t reckognized by the audience. That was a bit bad fo the overall atmosphere. But here and there the bitches then came up with old songs and refrains like “piss all over your grave” which lead to immediate cauterwauling of myself.

Again, the Felsenkeller team presented a crystal clear sound, very warm. A bit more bass wouldn’t do any harm, but well, so be it. Lyrics were very good to understand, and thats more important if you want to enjoy the SCARY BITCHES.
The SCARY BITCHES btw are part of the phenomen of “not moving rock stars”. That are people of that kind who don’t move at stage, but still draw full attention of the audience to themself. Why that is- just the gods can know.
Having that said – you shouldn’t bother to let a concert of the bitches go if you have the chance to attend. Esspecially if you want to see Almas Doppelgänger live in concert. Fantastic band, thanks!

On Saturday SPECIMEN was the last band. SPECIMEN have invented the word BATCAVE since vocalist Ollie Wisdom founded the wellknown and legendary club THE BATCAVE in 1982. Meanwhile the term batcave describes quite a whole music genre. Guess, one can say that everything can call itself batcave if it would have gathered a concert in that holy halls. Well, philosophical debate.
SPECIMEN entered stage, audience went insane. The mixer gave the last decibels he had (unfortunatly). Actually the whole gig was a damn loud thing.
Who doesn’t know SPECIMEN should know, that at least everybody of us must have heard the one or other song somewhere. I thought myself that I don’t know a song of em as I decided to attend the concert, but in fact, I knew EACH song, which suprised me lots. SPECIMEN is rock music, sometimes with glammer, sometimes a bit punky. It’s extraordinary played, with guitars doing strange screams and feeeps and such. For 1980 times it could have been called industrial aswell. Extraordinary in the past, but still extraordinary good rock today.

Ollie Wisdom was happy with this evenings audience and smile friendly to the people at the beginning – that was the first time this year a musician at the WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN has been seen smiling. The show was incredible, with much action and movements, jumpings and even climbings could been seen. Great shit!
Air was full with expierence and the joy to play live – that is, what SPECIMEN of today differs from so much other bands today. This made me walk to the agra the next day, where I bought the brandnew SPECIMEN live recording ALIVE AT THE BATCAVE. Besides the high volume, this one was a really enjoyable gig with great special moments. Yes!

After the concert, saturday ended for me. I had fever again. Is this cause of the masses of people? Outdoors of the Felsenkeller, people cuted themselve on their nacked ass – with fly flaps and others. But maybe this was a fever dream. Was it?

SUNDAY – 31. May 2009

Fever was more worse, but shit happens. Punkband FLIEHENDE STÜRME would play in the Agra. I missed them last year. I promised myself to attend next time and so I decided to ignore all the heat in my head and attend.
The FLIEHENDE STÜRME are a punk band of the old school. Raw, melancholic, critical. If you know CHAOS Z, this band is the follow up band.
The melancholic thing is, why they play at the WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN. If this would be missing, they would not really fit to this festival. But well, people loved those guys. For me it wasn’t the thing I would love too much. Sometimes the sound remembers me to the other german punk band which were in trend in the 90ties, like BÖHSE ONKELZ, TOTEN HOSEN and more. FLIEHENDE STÜRME are more serious of course, but sometimes it simply remembers me that bands.

With 14 euro the CD prices were actually to high – on the left side of the FLIEHENDEN STÜRME CDs was SPECIMEN for just 10 Euro. That one and the fact that I grew up at the wrong corner of musical earth prevented to much enthusiasm. And that even when the sound was great, the songs well balanced and the atmospere very tight agile. Well, so be it. I am more into FANGS ON FUR kind of punk music. I think, only british punk is true (not always, haha).

Straight after, the meanwhile some pounds grown Frank entered stage: FRANK THE BAPTIST. This is another one of the best bands this year and I recommend all rock fans out there his music. A very good vocalist with plausible, sad melodies and down-to-earth gothic rock riffing.
FRANK THE BAPTIST have one of the rare vocalists who can -really- sing (OK, Stephanie Meier of the band ATARGATIS can sing too). The guy is a true rocker, and proves that: after the third song Frank told us that a guy called X is in the hall and would like to ask his girlfriend Y a question. Its silent for some seconds, then Frank told us:”Hey, X has just asked Y to marry him, and she said yes. Now, kiss the bitch, we would like to play along!”.
Isn’t that cool? Time is expensive at a festival, but Frank sacrifized it for his fans. On the other hand, who is really such a cool ass and names the freshly engaged lady a bitch?

Then a very atmospheric evening with the most cool songs from BEGGARS WOULD RIDE, DIFFERENT DEGREES OF EMPTY and THE NEW COLOSSUS happened. But not too much people would sing along with FRANK THE BAPTIST, which made me feel the even when FRANK THE BAPTIST has become a really successful band the should play in smaller halls. Frank needs direct publicum contact, that’s for sure. And people are far away in the agra.
Well, but that doesn’t prevent ME to sing as loud as I could. Hope, people weren’t to annoyed from me Great gig, and one of the best together with the SCARY BITCHES.

As already announced fever was even more worse. Even beer didn’t help. But UMBRA ET IMAGO must be watched. This is a hate it or love it band, and there was much chattering about this german sadomaso freaks. They were loved by the audience, thats for sure. And one could see that Mozart meanwhile seems to love food in return.
On stage there was a quite old guy in front of me, completly dressed in roman legionnaire armory, including helmet. There was much fog, much light, somewhere in the corner a girl with less clothings. After the first song Mozart explained to us, that he has become an old man and put down his helmet. I guess, you need to be completly into UMBRA ET IMAGO to enjoy this. Later this corpulent lad did some pole dancing, but failed to climb up on it. He stayed with both feet on earth and posed a bit. But audience – they were screaming for joy! Why – don’t have a clue, even when I was impressed by the light show.

Afterwards Mozart said that he has been reading on the WGT, cause he is an book author too. Before 10 years or so, it was trendy to be intellectual and an musician at the same time. Of course you needed to write some books. Think on GOETHES ERBEN. After he said that, the dialogues between Lutz and Mozart are to be considered as strange:
“Lutz, all our friends have come.”
“You seem to be a nice guy.”
Hope he doesn’t have dialogues like this in his books. I know I repeat myself. But why the heck are all announcements so odd this year? Is this me? I mean, SCARY BITCHES announced the song DOPPLEGANGER with “this is my best friend” and and pointed to a hand puppet. Thats cool! But:”Lutz, I daresay, Lutz, blablabla….”

Well, however. There were more sexual things on the show. Not bad, but nothing which makes me crazy about it. Sound was good, and the light show too. Atmosphere was great and all the songs were performend very well. Actually the music isn’t bad – its straightforward, well composed and very earthy. But just this typical german stage thing, that doesn’t rock anymore to me. Confused I left the hall. I tried beer against the fever, but it failed. My brain cooked up like some milk in several breakfast occasions.

THE END

Monday I broke down. My friends didn’t have a good announcement too, before they brought me to my car. Bye, till next year, they said. I have colded more and there was no more energy left for music. But after a few days, it came to my mind how a high neveau the WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN 2009 had. Even if there were so much more people and it has been sometimes needed quite a long time to enter halls and so, it was a really fantastic festival. Sound was very good all the time, even when the rooms where huge.
But sometimes I had hard times to get good photos, cause either the lightshow was to bright or to dark. In the Werk II i had to deal with a nearly complete darkness, while in the Felsenkeller it felt like normal daylight. Just the light in the agra was perfect.
Having that said, this was a very good and enjoyable festival. Bands were killer, and I will worry about my fever for a long time, which made me miss INKUBUS SUKUBUS, NOSFERATU and UK DECAY on monday. Last announcement: good night Leipzig, see ya next year.

I just have uploaded a new demo song for the upcoming horror album of CULTES DES GOULES. The song is called DIE SONNE and can listen to it on the CULTES DES GOULES MySPACE site. It’s totally different from all the other songs CULTES DES GOULES performed before – thousand of neoclassical influences, ancient instruments and more can be heard.

However, I hope you like it – let me know!

Yours,

Cy Ghul

it’s may and unfortunatly this means that the sun reigns over the world. Good ghuls like me try to stay in their catacombs and feast on the living. And some more, as you can read in the following news!

However, in the time of daylight I thought lots about todays music scene. For music like GHUL PRODUCTIONS publishes it it is difficult nowadays. There are tons of other bands out there and usually GHUL PRODUCTIONS stands for strange and weird stuff. I am not doing real CDs anymore. On the first day BARATHRUM has been released, it was available in the net for download (without permission of course). But no harm has been done – it’s sold out and the true die hard fans got a copy!

But whats going on with other bands on the roaster? CULTES DES GOULES is really to strange and the new recordings prove that again. You can hear yourself when it’s public available.

This leds me to a question: how should I release my music? I’m thinking about some collectors editions in a 100 piece edition and a free download for those who just want the MP3s. What do YOU think about such behaviour? Let me know!

But it’s a road till there – I am awaiting your feedback!

Till then enjoy my news and speak to you soon.

Yours sincerely,
Cy Ghul

*** BARATHRUM – LONG LIVE SATAN sold out ***

You read it in the letter, it’s sold out since the first day available! This CD-R has been a great success for such a small label like GHUL PRODUCTIONS is and I would like to thank the great BARATHRUM community and of course the band for letting this happen!

Actually nothing bad happens – everybody (I know so far) was happy with the music and I actually made a few bucks. But no, I don’t want to drive a porsche someday, this less money is going directly to the other release I plan this year. Anyway, thanks!

*** CULTES DES GOULES creates a split 7″ vinyl with FAUSTCOVEN ***

Yes it’s true. FAUSTCOVEN and CULTES DES GOULES created two songs together. You know, I am the sole CULTES DES GOULES musician and this makes me very proud to share vinyl with FAUSTCOVEN. Having that said, we allready have a label for this black piece – but this is still secret till the label announces this itself. Till then everything else is a secret. Even when this vinyl never comes out it was fun.
And as a bonus: I have been asked to play the drums for the FAUSTCOVEN side – and I did it!

*** CULTES DES GOULES records a new album for Halloween ***

Again CULTES DES GOULES – I am currently heavily recording the new songs of the new album which I plan for halloween 2009. Prepare for an ambient and strange album, more unusual than ever. Expect first demos in the next weeks!

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CULTES DES GOULES – THE HOUSE AT THE WATER – CD-R/Pro booklet – 6 Euro
THARGOS – Salem City – CD – 6 EUR
THARGOS – Killfukk – CD – 8 EUR
THARGOS – Black Metal Punkz – 7″ – 8 EUR
THARGOS – T-Shirt: FUKKED AND KILLED (L, M, XL) – 12 EUR

HANDPICKED STUFF:

CHARNEL VALLEY – The igneaous race – CD – 6 EUR
DIMENTIANON – LIVE PROMO – CD-R  -3 EUR
DOOMRAISER – Lords of Mercy – CD – 6 EUR
GUMOMANIACS – Best of Dosenbier – CD-R – 6 EUR
HEXENTOMB – Far beyond – CD – 3 EUR
IMINDAIM – And the Living Shall Envy the Dead – DIGI-PAK – 6 EUR
RIGOR SARDONICOUS – Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus – CD – 6 EUR
SECTIONED – ELME PROMO – CD-R – 3 EUR
SANCTIFIER – Awaked by impurity rites – CD – 6 EUR
NAVE – II – LP – 8 EUR

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Barathrum - Long Live Satan Cover

The latest BARATHRUM output LONG LIVE SATAN is finally out – and gone, since there are only a few copies left! I never made a release which has been sold out so quickly. It feels very good of course. The success of this little album made nearly two new releases possible. Hopefully those are successful too

Expect some more rare stuff of other great acts in the future. I allready talked to a few guys and I guess I have some collectors stuff for your ears. Subscribe to the newsletter to stay tuned!

This doesn’t necessary mean that my shop becomes big: there are only 5 copies left (ok, and 5 more pre-orders without payment) of BARATHRUMs LONG LIVE SATAN. I expect this CD-R to be sold out before the first of march. If you want one of the last copies you better hurry up!

Yours,
Cy

the last weeks tons of pre-orders have flooded my mail inbox. I decided to put an end to this and open the shop for your pre-orders If you pre-order, you’ll get a special price on the latest CULTES DES GOULES CD-R. Well, check out my shop.

For all of you who are still unsure about the CD-R, check out my downloads page. I have added some excerpts from LONG LIVE SATAN lately.For the cutted MP3s, but several legal restrictions here in germany forced me to do so. However, you’ll get a good idea of the sound of the album.

While I am at it, just a few words about the release. There have been several discussions about the CD-R and I would like to take the chance to clean up. Some people are wondering about the ridiculous limitation to 100 copies only. Well, please note that we are making a CD-R. Burning a unlimited number of copies makes my life to hell. I have now 100 pieces on my desk and that was hell enough Second, the sound of the CD-R is not the best sound ever. This release is meant for die-hard fans. And those people who are always on track with BARATHRUM will find their way in time to this CD-R.
Then some people claimed that the CD-R is just a best of. Well yes, thats common use with that live recordings stuff. And the CD-R has been recorded in 1996, YES THINGS HAVE CHANGED since then. For example, BARATHRUM has brought out new cool releases.
About the cover, some people don’t like it. Well, I do. I guess Demonos does like it too. This is just a matter of taste and we’ll not change it. Even if hell would break loose people are demonstrating before my house, I will not change it.

OK, thats all for the moment. Hope those of you claiming about these and that will be satisfied by now. At least I am doing LONG LIVE SATAN cause I am worshiping BARATHRUM. Demonos gave me his OK for bringing this out even knowning that the sound is not perfect. I guess he want to give his fans what they demand for long time, namely a live release. And it was much fun to help him and much fun to speak with all those fans who allready contacted in matters of BARATHRUM. Hope you understand all the reasons which makes LONG LIVE SATAN to a very special release, with a atmosphere underground sound and some edges. Hope you’ll love the recording as I do! Thank you!

Yours,
Cy Ghul