KASTIMONIA (and info about the "Seal the Abyss" Compilation)



BAND NAME: Kastimonia
GENRE: Electronic Experimental Unblack Metal
STATUS: Split-up
LOCATION: International (Finland, Puerto Rico, USA)

Formed in October, 2003.
Kastimonia (Castimonia) is a Latin word meaning "to be morally pure".

Lineup:
Miseria - Vocals (2003 - ??)
Russ Leech - Guitars
Eero Parasite (The Slave Eye) - Guitars, Drums (2003-??), Guitar (later)
Mikaela Akrenius - Keyboards, Synths (2003-??)
Joshua Walker - Drums/Percussion

Links:
Official site @ archive.org

Discography:

NOTE: This band also had a song called "Death Rides a Pale Horse". I'm not sure if this ever appeared on any releases or not.


In Their Remembrance (UNRELEASED, 2004)

See [here].

1) In Glorious Triumph We Reign
2) Leprosy of Souls
3) Religion Kills

(artwork
not
available)

In Secrecy We Conspire (NOT SURE IF RELEASED, 16 February, 2005, Deathcrush Records) 
Format unknown

Full tracklist unknown.

??) Leprosy of Souls
4:41, lyrics:
When darkness entwines with the heart of man
It embraces the soul
And blackens it with iniquity

This is the leprosy of the soul
The viral disease
Decaying

My withering soul has been bound to blindness
A desecrated temple possessed by the unclean
In servitude to the perverse
A slave of sin

When darkness entwines with the heart of man
The soul is silenced
And united with the promise of death
... of death

As it spreads through the hearts of men
It seeks to quench man's carnal desires
Where darkness reigns there can be no light, no light

Blinded by the Storm
Blackened in spiritual battle from within
Manifesting itself as a devourer

Abomination
When darkness entwines with the heart of man
The soul is silenced
And united with the promise of death
... of death
Death



Seal the Abyss, Volume 1: Opus Insomnia (25 December, 2004, Deathcrush Records)
Format: CD

More information about the artwork [here] and [here].

Distributed through Manifest Distro.

Produced by "Dying Sorrow" (Miseria's website) in the USA.

There was also a t-shirt made for this compilation. The image doesn't work anymore, but the description says, "The design is a metaled out angel of wrath carrying a rams horn in one hand and an ancient bible in the other signifying Christs return.".

Other bands that were planned to appear on this compilation, but apparently ultimately didn't, include Death Poems (with the song "By the Light of Perfection"), Drottnar, Divine Heretic, Far from Sanity, Parakletos, Renascent, and Old Path (all song names unknown).

Each copy of this included a "preview edition of Skull Magazine". [1]

Tracks with "***" next to them were exclusive / unreleased tracks at the time.
 
1) Abolishment of Hate - Screams of the Dead
2
) Dark Endless - Darkened Skies
3
) Arvinger - Siste Dagers Stridsmenn ***
4
) Blooded - Let the Killing Begin ***
5
) Gaoth Anair - Awoke by the Blood Stone Gate ***
6
) Shadows of Paragon - And My Tears Are Gone
7
) Bleakwail - Sadness ***
8
) Kastimonia - Leprosy of Souls
***
9) Aspiration - Sovereign Justice ***
10
) Mortii Complexus Sum - All Flesh ***
11
) Dark Lay Still - White Blades Through Black Hearts ***
12
) Azmaveth - A Mortal Way of Life ***
13
) Sotakirves - Harmageddon ***
14
) Holy Blood - The Spring
15
) Megiddon - Necrosis of Conscience ***
16
) Altera Enigma - The Infinite Horizon (Bonus Track) ***


^ Banner from Manifest Distro's old website. Might contain part of the t-shirt design? Looks like an angel, and it looks like there might be a ram's horn?



Sorg - White Metal Compilation Vol. II (2007, label unknown)
Format unknown


1) Roots of Tragedy - Pray for Death 6:30
2) Essence of Sorrow - Embraced 4:32
3) Pantokrator - Nephilim 4:13
4) Infection Zero - Their Sins Beloved, track length unknown
5) Benevolence - The Suicide Pillars 4:54
6) Vaakevandring - Lidelse 6:21
7) Docile - Closed Eyes Opened Arms 4:52
8) Theonomy - Affliction, track length unknown
9) Grave Defier - Grave Defier 2:05

10) Kastimonia - Leprosy of Souls 4:41
11) Still Remains - To Live and Die By Fire 2:57
12) Dormant - Enmity 4:54
13) Exultet - Sound of Requiem 5:08
14) Life Eternal - Crossed Gunnery, track length unknown
 

Not all track lengths are known, but apparently the total album is 1:04:23



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A bunch of stuff is missing. If you have anything, let me know!



Left: Stylized logo from Miseria's DeviantArt page.
Right: Header from their website.

2 comments:

p said...

Kastimonia also appeared on Sorg - White Metal Compilation Vol. II [2007] with the song Leprosy of Souls.

Here is more information about Seal the Abyss compilation: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/seal-the-abyss.181537/

Nocturnal Iridescence said...

This page got a MASSIVE overhaul today! Everything's finally been added, thanks! :D