Arckanum - Trulen (1994) 2x Vinyl Reissue [2006]

 

 

Arckanum was a Swedish black metal solo band formed in 1993 by Johan "Shamaatae" Lahger, who was the only constant member. Arckanum ranks among the most influential and popular in the Swedish black metal scene.

Shamaatae is also an author of occult literature and writes under the names Vexior/Ekortu. His first published work, titled Panparadox, was released 13 July 2009 by Ixaxaar. His second book, Gullveigarbók, was released in December 2010 by Fall of Man. His third book was published on December, 21st 2014 called Þursakyngi, it is said to be a "book series" with each book dedicated to the Thursatru tradition. As of 2018, he has published multiple books and has many more to come. He put the band to rest in favour of being a writer.

Shamaatae joined his first band, Conquest, aged eleven, the band later evolving into Grotesque. On leaving Grotesque, Shamaatae formed a technical death metal band called Disinterment, who recorded one demo and played a few gigs before splitting up. At the end of 1992, Shamaatae decided to return to black metal and Arckanum was started. Initially a full band, it became a solo project after six months. After several releases, by 1998 Shamaatae had discontinued working with Necropolis Records because they went under, and turned his attention to writing books on the subjects of Pan, Old Norse traditions, runic witchcraft and anti-cosmic Satanism/chaos-gnosticism.

He was still involved in music during this time still working with Arckanum and playing drums with The Hearsemen. Arckanum's album ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ was released on 1 June 2009. Antikosmos and ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ featured the guest appearance of Set Teitan of the bands Dissection and Watain. Shamataae released 3 more full lengths and several EPs and splits before deciding to record Arckanum's final album Den förstfödde which was released on 29 September 2017 through Folter Records, who are currently re-releasing the band's entire catalogue.

Arckanum was split up in 2018 in order for Shamaatae to focus solely on his authorship and spiritual ventures. On 26 April 2019, Folter Records released Första trulen, an EP which contains the remixed and remastered recordings that were supposed to be the 1994 demo Trulen; Shamaatae was unhappy with the original recordings and kept the material unreleased until after he disbanded Arckanum.

Arckanum's lyrics deal mainly with the worship of Chaos, as well as anti-cosmic Satanism. He is noted for writing lyrics resembling Old Swedish, and he has stated that he tries to write his lyrics as grammatically correct as he can. In his latest three albums however, the language is clearly meant to resemble Old East Norse.

 

 

 -Tracklist:

     Ir Þætta Tiþsskedhe...    
A01. Pan's Lughn
A02. Hvila Pa Tronan Min
A03. Trulfærþ
A04. Yvir Min Diupe Marder
A05. Trulfærþ
A06. Et Sorghetog
A07. Þræl
A08. Gava Fran Trulen
B09. Ener Hæl Sial
B10. Bærghet
B11. Myrkr Ynnist
B12. Svinna
B13. Ener Skipnadher At Fylghia
B14. Kolin Væruld
B15. Ener Stilla Sior Af Droten Min.

        Gamblir Sangir...    

     (Unreleased Recordings)    
C01. Gava Fran Trulen
C02. Yvir Min Diupe Marder
C03. Svinna
          
     (Rehearsals)    
D04. In Dom Demones 1993
D05. Di Vises Sægen 1993
D06. Gava Fran Trulen 1994
D07. Et Sorghetog 1994.

 

-Line-up:

• Shamaatae : Everything.

 

 Limited to 466 copies.
Comes in gatefold cover sleeve, with printed inner sleeves and A2-size single-sided poster.
Tracks are numbered sequentially (with usage of leading zeroes) over each vinyl.

[1st inner sleeve]:
"TRUL" means troll, and a troll in scandinavian folklore is an "evil demon".
So the title of this demo "Trulen" means "The Demons"

ARCKANUM stands for all the darkness, grief and mysticism in nature. ARCKANUM is a shadow of Pan, the great master of nature, the lord of trolls and its dark harmonies. I got the inspiration from the woods, when I walked the living ground of myths. Sitting alone in the mountains surrounded by trees made me see and feel things beyond our reality. This is my nature, to live like a troll in my deep forest of Pan. I write all of the lyrics in ancient Swedish because I want ARCKANUM to be as ancient and medieval as possible. All text on this demo are in ancient Swedish.I, Shamaatae am the only member in ARCKANUM now and it will be so forever... All instruments and voices (except Bærghet by Sataros) on this demo by me, Shamaatae.

 

  

 

 

Arckanum - The 11 Year Anniversary Album [best of-compilation] (2004)

Shamaatae joined his first band, Conquest, aged eleven, the band later evolving into Grotesque on drums. On leaving Grotesque, Shamaatae formed a technical death metal band called Disinterment (before called Absorption) who recorded one demo and played a few gigs before splitting up. At the end of 1992, Shamaatae decided to return to black metal and 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕜𝕒𝕟𝕦𝕞 was started. Initially a full band, it became a solo project after six months.

After several releases, by 1998 Shamaatae had discontinued working with Necropolis Records because they went under, and turned his attention to writing books under the pen-names Vexior and Ekortu on the subjects of Pan, Old Norse traditions, runic witchcraft and anti-cosmic Satanism/chaos-gnosticism. His first book, called "PanParadox: Pan Towards Chaos", was released through Ixaxaar Publishing in 2009.

He was still involved in music during this time still working with 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕜𝕒𝕟𝕦𝕞 and playing drums with The Hearsemen. 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕜𝕒𝕟𝕦𝕞's album ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ was released on 1 June 2009. Antikosmos and ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ featured the guest appearance of Set Teitan of the bands Dissection and Watain.

Shamataae released 3 more full lengths and several EP's and splits before deciding to record Arckanum's final album Den förstfödde which was released on September 29, 2017 through Folter Records, who are currently re-releasing the band's entire catalogue.

 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕜𝕒𝕟𝕦𝕞 was split up in 2018 in order for Shamaatae to focus solely on his authorship and spiritual ventures.

-Tracklist:

01. Ty mörkeret     02:18
02. Martyrium af ondo     06:00
03. Ængin oforhærra     05:43
04. Svinna     04:38
05. Kolin væruld     03:49
06. Et sorghetog     02:44
07. Træet     03:40
08. Þæn vredhgadi svarti loghin     06:09
09. Kosmos wardhin dræpas om sin     04:17
10. Vm kaos gatvm ok kosmos     06:02
11. Bafomet     05:31

-Line up:

• Shamaatae: All instruments, Vocals.

Label: Oniric Records.

Limited to 500 copies.

 Recorded at High Tech Trinity Studio.

 Contains sundry unreleased & rare Arckanum songs from 1992-2003.

 Mixed and edited in 2002.

 -Tracks 1 & 2 were written and recorded in 1992, and semi-released as an unofficial demo tape.

-Tracks 3 to 5 are taken from the first recording of the demo tape "Trulen", that was never mixed nor finished.

-Track 6 was recorded during the autumn 1995 at High Tech Trinity Studio, Mora, Sweden. This version is the original mix which was dispelled.

-Track 7 is an unreleased bonus track never mixed nor mastered, originally planend to be released on a 7" a month before "Fran Marder".

-Track 8 is taken from the "Boka Vm Kaos" session. Also credited as "Capitvlvm III. Þæn Vredhgadi Svarti Loghin".

The drums on this track were recorded in a traditional Led Zeppelin way in 2000 in Mora, Sweden. Guitars & vocals were performed at Peter Asp's in 2000. Recorded, edited and roughly mixed in 2000. Produced, mixed and finalized in 2001.

-Tracks 9 to 11 are bonus tracks, not mentioned on the tracklist. These tracks originally appeared on the Boka Vm Kaos 7" and the split 7" with Contamino.