AKHLYS
Melinoë (digi)

Ambientscapes mixed with black metal Hell from the mastermind behind the exemplary Nightbringer and Bestia Arcana.
 

Five paeans of hypnotic, metamorphic and dangerously addictive Black Metal. A perfect juxtaposition of meticulous craftsmanship and frightening pandemonium.

Comes with an 8-page booklet and download card. Pressed on mustard / beer merge heavy vinyl with splatters.

Pressed on iridescent green heavy vinyl. Laser engraved etching on side D. Comes with an A2 poster and download card. Colors on final records may vary to a degree from the mockup.

"The Dreaming I" is available again, this time on double vinyl in complete unedited form with D side featuring a laser etching. A fascinating and grandiose sonic monument consisting of five otherworldly compositions, five dark tunnels of fury and intensity in which to lose yourself, filled with dangerous and hypnotic melodies.

This first album is a unique moment in timeless time, a delicious abyss of dark and ethereal enchantment that takes Black Metal into another magnificient dimension. Gateways upon gateways.

Pressed on pearl white / red marble heavy vinyl. Comes with a 12-page 12"x12" booklet and a download card. Side D contains no music but features a black screen print. Colors on final record may vary to a degree from the mockup.

Following 2020's widely-worshipped "Melinoë", AKHLYS, the globe's premier channelers of abyssal nightmare, return triumphant with six elaborate and exhilarating new tracks of pure Black Metal terror.

Drawing from esoteric and mythical traditions, where the land of dreams is placed within the darkness of the underworld, arises the "House of the Black Geminus". Through labyrinthine halls, shadowed corridors, cellars of dread, and attics of epiphany, as ordeal and ecstasy meet at the vertices where each beholds his own daemon.

Pressed on green with black smoke heavy vinyl. Comes with a download card. Colors on final record may vary to a degree from the mockup.

Driven by his 'personal daemon', Naas Alcameth (NIGHTBRINGER, BESTIA ARCANA, AORATOS) initiated AKHLYS in 2009 as a solo endeavour amid an ongoing fascination with ritualistic Dark Ambient music, and in tribute to the ancient Greek goddess of 'death-mist', daughter of chaos and bringer of misery from which the project takes its name.

Originally released 2009 on limited CD-R and last reissued in 2019, debut album "Supplication" is a tense and disturbing work of Horror Ambient. A trance-inducing, highly personal melding of spiritual and mythic nightmare via haunting synth, ominous sound design, ghostly vocalisations and percussive solemnity.