CARPE NOCTEM Signs With CODE666

June 3, 2013

Icelandic black metallers CARPE NOCTEM have inked a multi-album deal with Aural Music imprint Code666. Due late summer, the band's debut album, "In Terra Profugus", is a concept effort about an ethereal journey within and without the self, exploring concepts of life, death and the nature of evil. It is about overcoming and reaching understanding through strife and hardship, about self-flagellation of the soul. The album title calls upon Cain's journey into the wasteland of Nod, the self-made exile from God's creation. Imagery from nature and light references to Nordic myth permeate the text, which is both vivid and esoteric in description. The CD mixed and mastered by Paso (THE SECRET, EPHEL DUATH) at Studio73 in Italy.

The order of the songs count down at first, and then upwards, signifying the initial descent into the earth, into the dream or afterlife, and the subsequent transformation and resurrection.

"In Terra Profugus" track listing:

III. Odium Somniferum
II. Ars Moriendi
I. VITRIOL
II. Metamorphoses Maleficarum
III. Hostis Humani Generis

CARPE NOCTEM was formed in November 2005 but its current formation came to be in 2009. By this time, it had earned a reputation of intense performances on stage, while rising as one of Iceland's leading acts in black metal. The music shows various influences and expresses extreme opposites. It forms a raw, chaotic and apocalyptic soundscape combined with Icelandic lyrics, often referencing scripture, Nordic mythology, occult writings, apocalyptic prophecies and Icelandic black magic rituals.

CARPE NOCTEM previously released a demo ("Myrkraverk", 2008) and an EP ("Carpe Noctem", 2009).

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