IN
1987, SCORH ANYROTH AND DAM GOMHORY FOUNDED AROG, HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE
BLACK METAL SOUND OF BATHORY / CELTIC FROST. ON THE THRESHOLD OF PRODUCING THEIR
FIRST ACTUAL DEMO, AROG BROKE UP IN 1990 AS A RESULT OF UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS WITH
THE DRUMMERS. FREE OF RESTRICTIONS, THE GROUP BEGAN EXPERIMENTING AND FORMED A
NEW BAND, MORDOR.
IN NOVEMBRE 1990, THEY PRODUCED THEIR FIRST DEMO, "ODES", A 56-MINUTES
RECORD CONSISTING OF THREE TUNES. BESIDES THE PRESENCE OF BLACK/DEATH METAL IN
THEIR VOCALS, MORDOR BLENDED "EXPERIMENTAL" SOUNDS FROM SUCH OTHER
BANDS AS GODFLESH AND SWANS. USING A DARK, THREATENING TEMPO. EACH PICE STANDS
AS AN APOLOGY FOR DARKNESS, MADNESS AND CRUEL BEAUTY.
THEN IN 1991, MORDOR RELEASED AN 11-MINUTES RECORDING "BLAK ROSES FROM THE
DAWN OF CHAOS", CULMINATING IN THE PUREST MOMENT OF ADORATION AND
SUFFERING. THIS SONG STOOD ON A COMPILATION WITH SEVERAL EARLIER PIECES FROM ÄROG
AND G.O.R.A., WHICH IS AN EXPERIMENTATION WITH SOUNDS OF GRIND, INDUSTRIAL AND
NOISE.
MORDOR HAS BEEN JOIGNED IN 1992 BY OPALE ABLASORH TO PRODUCE
"CSEJTHE", A HISTORICAL REFLECTION THAT SYMBOLIZES THE PEOPLE WHO HAS
LEFT THEIR MARK IN TIME, KNOWN FOR THEIR LEGACY TO BEAUTY AS WELL AS CRUELTY. IN
FACT, IT POIGNANTLY RESONATES THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COUNTESS ERZEBET BATHORI,
HER REINCARNATION AND THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE NOW KNOW IT.
STRIVING TO EVOKE MULTIPLE FACETS OF BLACKNESS INTO THEIR MUSIC, MORDOR REACHED
NEW HEIGHTS IN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC BY IMPLEMENTING GOTHIC INFLUENCES, SOUNDS FROM
BANDS LIKE LAIBACH, FOETUS AND OTHERS LIKE CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.
AS OF APRIL 1992, MORDOR HAS BEEN UNDER CONTACT WITH WILD RAGS RECS TO PRODUCE A
RETROSPECTIVE, INCLUDING "CSEJTHE", TWO PIECES FROM "ODES"
AND "BLAK ROSES FROM THE DAWN OF CHAOS". THIS MC CAME OUT AT LAST AT
THE END OF THE YEAR.
MEANWHILE AT THE SUGGESTION OF HERB MULLIN, A SPLIT EP WAS IN THE PIPELINE, THE
COMPOSITION "DARK IS THE FUTURE" BEING RECORDED FOR THE OCCASION.
DEDICATED TO MICHEL DE NOSTREDAM, IT APPEALS PARTICULARY TO A QUATRAIN FROM HIS
"CENTURIES" RELATING NO DOUBT TO OUR TIME. HOWEVER, THIS SPLIT 7"
NEVER APPEARED FOR VARIOUS REASONS.
IN COLLABORATION WITH ART' SNEIDER AND FEW FRIENDS, "THE WAY OF
NIHILISM" WAS CREATED, A COMPILATION CONCEPT DEVOTED ON THE ONE HAND TO
ABSOLUTE NIHILISM ENDING IN NOTHINGNESS AND ON THE OTHER HAND TO A DECADENCE
REPRESENTED BY MODERN CEVILISATION. APART FROM A NEW TITLE BY MORDOR ("IN
SEARCH OF THE PURE NEGATION"), THIS PRODUCTION INCLUDES EQUALLY DIFFERENT
PROJECTS BANDS BROUGHT OUT IN A LIMITED EDITION AT THE BEGINNING OF 1993. THIS
TAPE IS NOW SOLD OUT AND IS CONSIDERED THE PEAK FOR "DARK POST-MODERN
ART". A RECONCILIATION WAS ALSO UNDERTAKEN WITH THE FRENCH ASSOCIATION
"INCENSE" FOR THEIR COMPILATION "AND FORGET ...". A
COMPOSITION IN TOUCH WITH COMMON EXPERIENCE WAS PROPOSED IN THE FORM OF A JAM
SESSION, CALLED "TWO CASTLES IN BLACK", IN APRIL 1993.
UNDER SHIVADARSHANA RECORDS A 7" PICTURE DISK WAS CONCEIVED, COMPRISING ON
SIDE B "DARK IS THE FUTURE", A RE-MEIX, AND ON SIDE A A NEW TITLE,
"LES ARMEES DE SAURON". IF THIS LAST TITLE REFERS TO TOLKIEN'S
MYTHOLOGY, THIS IS MAINLY FROM A SYMBOLIST VIEWPOINT IN AGREEMENT WITH THE
"INDO-ARYAN" TRADITION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A METAPHYSIC OF WAR.
THIS 7" WAS RELEASED IN THE SUMMER OF 1994.
SECOND STAGE IN THE RECONCILITION WITH "INCENSE" THE COMPILATION
"PARTICULES" CONTAINING THE COMPOSITION "MAHARÂTRI",
EVOLVING IN THE STYLE OF "ODES", APPEARED IN MARCH 1994.
BY MUTUAL CONSENT WITH WILD RAGS RECORDS, THE DECISION WAS TAKEN TO REMIX
"ODES" AND "CSEJTHE" TO PUT THEM ON CD FORMAT.
"ODES" INCLUDED THREE ORIGINAL SONGS + "BLAK ROSES FROM THE DAWN
OF CHAOS" WHEREAS "IN SERACH OF THE PURE NEGATION" +
"AGONY" WERE ADDED TO "CSEJTHE" AS BONUS TRACKS. BOTH CD'S
WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE MIDDLE OF 1995.
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