In The Mouth Of Madness

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To gain a deeper understanding of what is, it is necessary to examine what was – to go to the sources and the origins. With the emergence of this brand new offering by Desiderii Marginis, ‘Years Lend a Golden Charm’ we are invited to experience the very birth of what is now a well established and worldwide recognised project within the dark-ambient industrial scene. The contents of the new album is made up of some 73 minutes of material from the first three tapereleases from 1993. Highly sought after by collectors but only available in a mere dozen of handmade copies, these songs are now finally made available to a greater audience. When you listen to the music with the knowledge that hindsight brings - it is obvious that these are the roots and the foundations, not only of the first full length album ‘Songs Over Ruins’, but of every succesive release up to the latest ‘Seven Sorrows’. In 1993 there was no set course, no long term plan – and still, maybe it couldn’t have turned out any other way?

Desiderii Marginis - 2007 - Seven Sorrows

Release type: Full-length

Style: Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Country: Sweden

Label: Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 129 mb

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Seven Sorrows is the sixth album by the renowned swedish dark-ambient project Desiderii Marginis, and a most eagerly awaited follower to the highly acclaimed album of 2005, That Which Is Tragic And Timeless. With the material on Seven Sorrows Johan Levin, the mind behind Desiderii Marginis, has dug deeper than ever before within the creative depths and so ventures even further into the darklands of dispair and solitude, deeper into the vibrant shadows of the human mind. Since the very debute in 1993, Desiderii Marginis has, with every new offering, refined and reinvented the trademark sound, and this release is no exception to the rule. Strummed guitars and dulcimers blend seamlessly with soaring strings, raging drones, the sound of twisted metal and spoken word. Diverse sources, yet tamed to an intriguing and alluring whole that slowly spin it’s web around the helpless listener and drags them into the vortex of dreamlike darkness. First 2000 copies in a 6-panel digipak, artwork photos taken by the exceptional photographer Birthe Klementowski.

Desiderii Marginis - 2007 - The Ever Green Tree

Release type: Full-length

Style: Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Country: Sweden

Label: Kaosthetik Konspiration

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 90 mb

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In the pure vein of his previous realization, Dark ambiant industrial with very personal feelings and innovations. "the ever green tree" is a concept album based on eternal youth, eternal values, fame and immortality. 'The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.' - A.N.Whitehead (1861 - 1947) Comes in a textured digifile, first edition limited to 1000 copies.Mr. Johan Levin aka Desiderii Marginis is an icon of the industrial ambient scene from the Northern lands and The Ever Green Tree is one fine example of the arts and crafts on offer from this Cold Meat Industry disciple. This mini album dates back to 2005 and was originally released on vinyl, while this silver disk edition came about a couple of years later. A peaceful meltdown of industrial banging, rattling and swooshing, melodies with classic undertones, synth drones dressed up by finely evolving filters and general knob manipulation. As the title and cover artwork might suggest, the album is dark, yes, but hardly scary in truth. There is space and volume to the ambiences, even an acoustic guitar opens up the work, suggesting you might have mixed up disks after all. No mistake indeed, Johan hardly stops at the same post too long and The Ever Green Tree is the one to catch if you're feeling in a lightweightly oppressed mood. Indulgence in dim lights.

Desiderii Marginis - 2005 - That Which Is Tragic And Timeless

Release type: Full-length

Style: Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Country: Sweden

Label: Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 128 mb

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Desiderii Marginis was formed in 1993 and is the spawn and emotional outlet of Johan Levin, who is also the sole member. The musical hallmark of this act can best be described as eerie dark-ambient, often on an almost epical scale, sadness in it’s splendor. These things are also the subject matter of Desiderii Marginis’ songs in general -’That which is tragic and timeless’. The american painter Mark Rothko once said that art should deal primarily with ’that which is tragic and timeless’. For this release Desiderii Marginis decided to pick up this idea – not as a dogma or rule, but rather like a distant echo, encapsulating and encompassing everything that I have ever tried to accomplish in terms of music. Epic sounds of solitude - music as comfort and refuge, as a mirror of all the shortcomings and flaws that constitutes the human nature. The ordinary world is explored, mapped and claimed. Still, the landmarks of our inner continents are remarkably few, and they remain unnamned. But the journey goes on…

Desiderii Marginis - 2004 - Strife

Release type: Full-length

Style: Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Country: Sweden

Label: Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 115 mb

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The Desiderii Marginis album ’Strife’ is, as the name implies, a sort of reflection over the rather pityful human desire to engage in all kinds of conflict. Everywhere and always.There is admittedly a healthy aspect of conflict or competition – the clash of ideas, ideologies, opinions and the like. But often strife takes the form of mere pointless destruction for no purpose. That particular lack of meaning is what this album is all about. ’War is a continuation of politics’ von Clausewitz wrote in the 1830’s. But if there’s no political visions to realize, no higher goal to pursue, no new beginning, no rebirth, then what? Guns go silent only to discover that nothing has really been accomplished. Old structures of injustice remain, recent conflicts are added to old ones.Does this sound depressing? I think it is.The music on this album is not intended to sound like the blazing guns of a world at war. It is what it is simply because these kind of thoughts went through my head as the music was made. I have had no ambition to address any particular issue, I’m definitely not trying to promote, or badmouth, any political or ideological points of view. Politics are firmly rooted in the present. Strife itself is eternal. The music is, as always, a strictly personal way to deal with and express the ever present madness of man.Nothing changes, everything is new...

Desiderii Marginis / Moan / Artefactum - 2004 - Lost Signals From Unknown Horizons

Release type: Split

Style: Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Country: Sweden | UK/Poland | Poland

Label: Beast Of Prey

Format:MP3@VBR V4

Size: 93 mb

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Moan's tracks recorded & mixed during February / June 2003 at Thoughts Grower. Released in a form of old letter. Folded from a big piece of paper. This release includes a photo(155 mm x 155 mm) and a cardboard inset with a printed information. Black cd-r witha professionally painted surface. A package is sealed with a special postage-stamp made exclusively for this release.

Desiderii Marginis - 2001 - Deadbeat

Release type: Full-length

Style: Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Country: Sweden

Label: Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 115 mb

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transmitting anti-art currents over the national grid. Home of the legendary deathseekers Brighter Death Now, of the infamous scatologist Raison d'Etre, and not least of the decadence afficionado Desiderii Marginis. If the latter's debut album, 'Songs Over Ruins', had been a movie, it would've been a perfect illustration of a "sleeper"; a release with a slow start, subsequently gaining momentum by word of mouth, finally a desirable product selling out. It seems more than mere chance that the long overdue repress coincides with the release of the second offering from Desiderii Marginis, 'Deadbeat'. This title, that reeks of self-irony, shouldn't be taken literally as emblematic of Desiderii's position within the CMI family; on the contrary, 'Deadbeat' once again proves head honcho Karmanik's flair for finding new talent. 'Deadbeat' is Desiderii Marginis' magnum opus, a bewitching tale from a midwintery Sweden veiled in darkness, firmly maintaining their ranking among the upper crust of the Mjölby avantgarde. Listening to Desiderii Marginis is like travelling in time, back to the days when you first discovered CMI and instantly became enchanted. By watching and learning from old mages like Raison d'être and Morthound, Johan Levin has aggregated different styles, but eventually the music is still distinguished by his highly personal touch. Close your eyes, and find yourself moved to desolate windswept forests - where mist lingers around leafless branches, moonbeams just barely break through, and distant howls both entice and frighten. These are emotions so familiar and so novel at the same time, evoked by classic CMI material that both looks back and points forward.

Desiderii Marginis - 1997 - Songs Over Ruins

Release type: Full-length

Style: Industrial/Experimental/Dark Ambient

Country: Sweden

Label: Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 129 mb

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The tune of a little bell overlaid by strange voices seemingly far away. Melodic atmospheric ambient sounds, one piece with straight rythms, the other very slow and quiet like musical description of a tree without its leaves, haveing cold and waiting for spring that never comes...