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Dunkelheit Produktionen is proud to present the full-length debut of Dead Procession, Rituais e Mantras do Medo, along with a bonus cd featuring all Dead Procession's past releases. "A shadowy entity hailing from the fertile underground of Portugal, Dead Procession began in 2009 with a series of three, super-limited demo tapes - each limited to only 33 copies, in fact. The style back then was keyboard-driven ambient/drone, but with the release of a split 7" with fellow countrymen Black Cilice in 2013, Dead Procession developed its ambient/drone to include vocals, and also garnered more attention due to the fortuitous pairing: a shared sensibility of otherworldly wanderlust, of magisterial melancholy, despite utilizing seemingly opposed means. However, with Rituais e Mantras do Medo, Dead Procession display that a tangibly black metal atmosphere can be created without using any conventional black metal at all. Here, the development on the split with Black Cilice follows forward toward a ritualistic sort of drone/doom full of contemplation and wonderment, embracing the vast expanses of the natural world whilst remaining resolutely alone and isolated. Each of the five tracks across the album start with the barest of fundaments and then build from there, the textures subtly unfolding as the trance takes hold. In fact, the album title itself translates to "Rituals and Mantras of Fear" in English, and it's this very emphasis on the nightside that suggests that Dead Procession in general and Rituais e Mantras de Medo in particular together form a sort of "shadow self" to black metal but, again, not being remotely "black metal" by any conventional definition of the term." (Text by Nathan Birk) With solemn pride, Dunkelheit Produktionen will present the album on 2CD edition and digital.

Media

Track Listing

Disc 1: Mantra de Sombras Percorrendo os Caminhos da Noite Osmose Espiritual No Labirinto No Fundo dos Lagos Negros Disc 2: Astral Occultism (Demo I) Choir of Shadows (Demo II) Black Ceremony (Demo III) Bleak Existence (Demo IV) Crawling Beneath The Moon

Bonus Materials

• Includes all demos and a song from a sold out split EPon CD2

Sales Points

• Unique, intense and trance-like atmosphere
• An intense and dark journey to the borders of life and death
• Deluxe 2CD-Version of the new album and rare demos (CD1 – album/CD2 – demos)
• Ritualistic Drone/Ambient creating a trancelike mood

Press Quotes

'Wonderful sounds, spherical vocal and minimalist-instruments focus on the main...' - 6/7

     —Christian Hemmer, XXL Rock

'The atmosphere is ritualistic, majestic even, as if we are bearing witness to some underground ceremony, one into which we are being unknowingly lulled.' - 8/10

     —The Midland Rocks

'Even though many metal bands invoke the term 'ritual,' the music on this album really sounds like the background to a sacred ritual to acknowledge the power of death and to find some meaning out of it.' - 4/5

     —Carl Sederholm, Sea of Tranquility

'For friends of dark ambient-sounds here is given much!' - 7/10

     —Björn Backes, Powermetal.de

'Rituais e Mantras do Medo covers you in mysticism and fills your head with haunting spectral voice and fills your heart with a heavy sorrow. The album is majestically dark, and calls you into the never ending void...'

     —Cadaver Garden

'This is stylised music that you might find in one of the turbine rooms of the Tate Modern.' - 7/10

     —Ave Noctum

'Dead Procession's long, languid compositions traffick in slow, liturgical drone, menacing quiet, and forceful, spare drumbeats that verge on ceremonial.'

     —Kim Kelly, Noisey

Best Metal Records of 2016

     —Grayson Haver Currin, Rolling Stone

'Here you get a sinister, atmospheric mix of drone and dark ambient for the ears.' - 3.7/5.0

     —Niklas, handwritten-mag.de