Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Frühjahr Equinox

the new CoD audio ritual celebrating the Spring Equinox  is in its final stages and should be ready for release  by the end of the season. The full length will contain one song (38 min). This is the first CoD ritual that features percussion. As always, special packaging and limited availibilty. Check back for release date

Friday, November 14, 2008

Cloak of Displacement- 'From the Dungeon"

the 2nd album entitled "FROM THE DUNGEON" will be released early 2009 from 200mg records and will be specially packaged in a cardboard box wrapped in barbed wire.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Aquarius records review of CoD "this is the only way"

at this time there are very limited copies of the initial press so hurry up and order now at the AQUARIUS RECORDS webstore


Some of you might remember Gargotheron, whose cd-r we reviewed a while back, a blurred baffling black metal horde from Arizona, whose sound was grim and raw, primitive and pummeling, spastic and hyper kinetic, octopoidal drumming, insectoid riffing, we described it as "Bone Awl meets Lightning Bolt", so what might we expect from Cloak Of Displacement, a strange ritualistic avant doom offshoot of the mighty Gargotheron? How about long expanses of processed downtuned guitar drone, gurgled distorted vocals, abstract riffage and clouds of glitch and buzz and electronic interference, brief bursts of in-the-red ultra distorted noise drenched black metal. And more fucked up weirdness. We're tempted to describe it as a black metal Faxed Head, but it's not quite so purposefully damaged, although it's plenty demented. There are stretches of almost prettiness, in the guise of sprawling low end buzz, a little Earth (circa 2), a little Khanate, a pinch of SUNNO))), but filtered though some sort of sick Abruptum like sonic ritual, in fact ritual is an apt description, as the performance was literally part of a REAL ritual, with a real live witch performing incantations and spells, at one point snipping locks of hair from the various band members while they recorded, even the packaging, sealed with wax, have been cursed, so open at your own peril!
Grim and fucked up, mysterious and abstract, definitely essential listening for ambient noise metal freeks into stuff like Abruptum, Emit and the like, but also might hit the spot for the slow and low obsessed, Khanate, SUNNO))), Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Vulture Club and other purveyors of minimal blackened filth.
Packaged in a hand stamped black envelope, sealed with wax, hand numbered, LIMITED TO ONLY 45 COPIES! We took most of those, inside a hand written missive from Cloak Of Displacement, to YOU.

Cloak of Displacement debut album now available

the First release from Hanging Tree records is out now and available exclusively through Aquarius Records . the CD comes in a black envelope, with a a personal letter hand numbered and wax sealed. only 45 copies







Friday, September 12, 2008

CLOAK OF DISPLACEMENT- "This is the Only Way"







           at war with mankind. cradled by mother nature. dark forces arise. only suicide can save the planet.

the debut of Cloak of Displacement is a literal suicide letter and a plea for all things to end. limited to 50 specially packaged CD's available November 1st, 2008