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The Gallery

The
Works.

The image is not decoration. It is where the music begins.

Ut pictura poesis

From image
to sound.

Paintings, literature, history and mythology are used as starting points rather than scenery.

A subject is isolated from its original work, examined critically and placed in a wider historical or social context before being translated into lyrics and music.

The music then amplifies the atmosphere of that subject — orchestration, extreme metal and individual musical voices combining into a world around the original image or story.

I

Source

Observe.

A painting, poem, myth, person or historical event creates the starting point.

II

Context

Question.

The work is separated from the obvious reading and examined from different perspectives.

III

Translation

Transform.

Lyrics, orchestration and extreme metal create a new musical environment around the subject.

Musical archive

The catalogue.

The detailed source archive is being reconstructed track by track.

Miseriae Mundi

Full Length · 2017

Miseriae Mundi

War, mythology, Dutch history, mortality and the transience of human achievement form the conceptual landscape of the record.

  1. 01 Legions of Doom
  2. 02 Holy Whore
  3. 03 The Paralytic Child
  4. 04 Visions of Death
  5. 05 Persephone
  6. 06 Nightfall
  7. 07 The Bockereyders
  8. 08 De Witt
  9. 09 Plains of Existence
  10. 10 Father of Destruction
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Nightmares

Full Length · 2018

Nightmares

Earlier works return in revised forms, reorchestrated and reframed through the band's later sound.

  1. 01 Nightmares
  2. 02 The Paralytic Child
  3. 03 Demonic Delusions
  4. 04 The Raft of Medusa
  5. 05 L'immortalité
  6. 06 Demonic Delusions — Piano Version
  7. 07 L'immortalité — Orchestral Version
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Death and the Maiden

Single · 2022

Death and
the Maiden

An early composition revisited as a completely new recording, connecting the first period of Pictura Poesis with its later sound.

Death and the Maiden · 04:45
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Demonic Delusions

EP · 2014

Demonic Delusions

Five tracks from the band's early period. Source and artwork notes will be added to the gallery archive.

In Death's Embrace

Demo · 2013

In Death's Embrace

  1. Intro
  2. The Face of Death
  3. Death and the Maiden
  4. The Raft of Medusa

The archive is growing

Every track has
another layer.

Original source works, artists, dates and interpretations will be added to this gallery as the archive is reconstructed.

Explore the history