After the latest release I even stopped to compose a new CD for this year. Yes, you heard right – Halloween 2010 is without CULTES DES GOULES.

My health status even did not allow me to take photos on this year Wave Gotik Treffen or at the new festival Regensburger Gotik Treffen. I ignored several other invitations for concerts and thus no new photos will be added to this blog.

When I am typing this I get tired again. Let’s wait for some better times.

Until then I wish you the very best.

IRON TYRANT is quicker than I could have dreamed of! Thanks to this great label I already received my copys of CULTES, COVENS, SINISTER RITES which is the split 7″ together with FAUSTCOVEN.

I am not sure if I will sell them on my own shop. If you want a copy, ask me directly. Otherwise I refer you to the IRON TYRANT STORE which contains much very excellent stuff.

I will no go and feast on the dead!

Have an excellent night,

your Ghul

Cultes, Covens, Sinister Rites

in my last e-mail I mentioned that it’s cold and well, it has not changed at my place.
Snow has been replaced with fog and rain, which is very good to hunt the mortals by
night, but sometimes very heavy for my old bones. But well, you probably don’t want
to know about the problems of an old ghul.

In the past months I have been busy working on new music, writings and other stuff
and so it has been silent. But now I can proudly announce that there will be a new release soon!

FAUSTCOVEN / CULTES DES GOULES
Ritual Evil / Fay Ce Que Vouldras

is a 7″ split which appears on Iron Tyrant the next days!

Actually there is already a pretty good review a Voices from the darkside available:

“CULTES DES GOULES play a macabre blend of Death Rock and Metal informed by the horrific visions of Lovecraft. It is a style that truly sounds unlike anything else. Eschewing the typical guitar oriented approach”

Read the complete review at: http://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/

Thanks to Iron Tyrant for all sorts of help! I have enjoyed doing this release!
Please support this label and check out our 7″ and also some of the other excellent bands which are signed to IRON TYRANT:

http://www.irontyrant.net

Best regards,
Cy Ghul

finally good news! FAUSTCOVEN and CULTES DES GOULES are sharing a 7″. Both band play songs within one lyrical concept. IRON TYRANT – our label for this vinyl just told me, that the wait will not be for too long now. Maybe just a few weeks and YOU could hold this new masterpiece in your hands.

Stay tuned!
Cy Ghul

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 MUMBLES release their new album by end of november. Before that, I got it for a prelistening. And I was very surprised of what I got. They call them self keyboard driven rock’n'roll – I coll em Gothic Rock without guitars. Followers of my site know that I am a great supporter of the “guitar free” scene .

If it didn’t come out clearly: THE MUMBLES are only two quite young lads from england (surprise) which are playing SISTERS OF MERCY styled gothic rock, but without guitars. They are on stage with only vocals and a keyboard. And they don’t seem that want to change this.

And I think they are right. They music got a very extraordinary sound. It’s gothic rock clearly. I mean, if the SISTERS would drop dead except for Andrew Eldritch (and the immortal Doktor Avalanche), this would be THE MUMBLES. Hm, after i wrote it – maybe THE MUMBLES are the Sisters? Who knows! Looking at their promotional pics, they guys even look like a young version of Sisters. For me, a long term Sisters fan and supporter of strange ideas like rock music without guitars, they are totally welcome.

All the songs are well done. I cannot claim about it. The voice of Robert is brilliant and the guy is a very good singer. While I enjoyed the songs structures, I need to say that I sometimes miss the steam which comes out from a good bass player or maybe even a guitarist. The whole record could need more bass freqs. More kick, more bass guitar! The songs itself already have steam and power, but the production does not support it totally. This is a pity! Sometimes THE MUMBLES use distorted keyboards for guitar replacement. I experimented with that stuff myself, but I think it sounds to clean for using. Better leave guitar sounds off and use something which sounds like a fat synthesizer.

However, besides this comments: I would buy a CD copy if I would seen them live. I think if you are interested in young but very promising bands and like the SISTERS, you should risk an ear. Good songs, good musicians, great idea. Some more kicks are needed for major success, but this will come in future. Definitly a band one needs to follow. Let’s hope they get an bassplayer on board and they buy a bus and start touring through UK. We know what the end of this story is. And after Andrew Eldritch begins to smell like a zombie, we urgently need some fresh blood.

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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.