Arcturus "Arcturian"

Arcturian is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus. It was released on May 8, 2015 and was the first album by the band in ten years. The album features Simen "ICS Vortex" Hestnæs as the principal vocalist. The first single for the album, "The Arcturian Sign", was released on March 27, 2015.

Track listing

1. "The Arcturian Sign" 5:08
2. "Crashland" 4:08
3. "Angst" 4:26
4. "Warp" 3:51
5. "Game Over" 5:57
6. "Demon" 3:27
7. "Pale" 5:10
8. "The Journey" 4:14
9. "Archer" 5:36
10. "Bane" 5:50

Special edition bonus tracks

1. "Angst (Industrial Club Remix By Pride And Fall)"  
2. "Archer (Sun Of The Sleepless Geisterbahn Remix)"  
3. "Game Over (Germ Remix)"  
4. "Warp (Wormhole Remix By Encephalon)"  
5. "Angst (Nailbomb Remix By Fractured)"  
6. "Arcturian Psychedelic Sign (By MøllårN)"  
7. "Warp (Germ Remix)"  
8. "Pale (Necro Deathmort Remix)"

Recording information:

Recorded at Mølla between 2010 and 2014.

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Møllarn and Arcturus.

Arcturus "Shipwrecked In Oslo (DVD)"

Shipwrecked In Oslo is the first DVD release by Arcturus. It was released on August 21, 2006 by Season Of Mist. The DVD includes footage of the band's 15 song performance at the Rockefeller Music Hall during the Sonic Solstice Festival in Oslo, on September 24, 2005. Extra material such as a photo slideshow and rehearsal footage is also included.

Track listing

1. "At Satans Ship (Introduction)"
2. "Ad Absurdum"
3. "Nightmare Heaven"
4. "Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer"
5. "Alone"
6. "Deception Genesis"
7. "The Chaos Path"
8. "Tore's Guitar Solo"
9. "Deamon Painter"
10. "Nocturnal Vision Revisited"
11. "Painting My Horror"
12. "Steinar's Keyboard Solo"
13. "Hufsa"
14. "Master Of Disguise"
15. "Knut's Guitar Solo"
16. "White Noise Monster"
17. "Reflections"
18. "Raudt Og Svart"

Tracks 5, 7, 11, 14 were originally released on the album La Masquerade Infernale (1997)

Track 6 was originally released on the album Disguised Masters (1999)

Tracks 2, 3 were originally released on the album The Sham Mirrors (2002)

Tracks 4, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17 were originally released on the album Sideshow Symphonies (2005)

Track 18 was originally released on the album Aspera Hiems Symfonia (1995)

NTSC.

Includes video clip of "Deamon Painter", small clip of rehearsal and slideshow of live pictures.

Recording information:

Filmed at Rockefeller Music Hall during the Sonic Solstice Festival, Oslo, September 24, 2005.

Arcturus "The Sham Mirrors"

The Sham Mirrors is the third studio album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus. It was released on April 9, 2002.

The Sham Mirrors is a departure from the band's previous albums, featuring a much more modern, space-influenced sound, as opposed to the layered, classical melodies of 1997's La Masquerade Infernale. The album contains elements of trip hop, ambient music and electronica in addition to the band's usual progressive and black metal sound. Lyrically, the album deals with abstract science fiction-themed subjects, a stark contrast to the theatrical and Satanic lyrics of the band's earlier work. The album cover depicts a model drawing of the upper part of the Apollo spaceship.

This is the last album to feature Kristoffer Rygg on vocals.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Kristoffer Rygg, except tracks 4 and 6, written by Jørn H. Sværen; all music is composed by Steinar Sverd Johnsen.

1. "Kinetic" 5:25
2. "Nightmare Heaven" 6:05
3. "Ad Absurdum" 6:48
4. "Collapse Generation" 4:13
5. "Star-Crossed" 5:01
6. "Radical Cut" 5:08
7. "For To End Yet Again" 10:33

Total length: 43:13

The title for track 7 is lifted from Samuel Beckett.

Sleeve quotes from the pre-surrealist play 'Ubu the King' by Alfred Jarry.

Recording information:

Recorded in various spaces, times and formats from 2000 to 2002.

Mixed by Tore Ylwizaker at Ambassaden, Jan. 2002.

Mastered at Strype Audio.

Arcturus "Aspera Hiems Symfonia/Constellation/My Angel"

Aspera Hiems Symfonia (Latin for "Harsh Winter's Symphony") is the debut studio album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus.

In 2002, the album was remastered, along with the preceding EPs My Angel and Constellation. Re-released as a double disc, entitled Aspera Hiems Symfonia/Constellation/My Angel, it also contains two previously unreleased tracks, "The Deep Is The Skies" and "Cosmojam" at the beginning of Disc 2. The remastered version has a considerably stronger, clearer sound that restores many of the lower-frequency elements of the music lost in the original mastering.

Although the liner notes on the CD booklet state that Arcturus did not re-record any material, certain passages are evidently different from the originally released versions. Examples are the clean vocal sections in "Wintry Grey", "Naar Kulda Tar" and "Raudt Og Svart." The original synthesizer lines in the opening of "The Bodkin And The Quietus" are replaced by a similar but slightly more complex guitar solo. It is possible, but not confirmed, that these passages were not re-recorded and may have been spliced in from alternate, unreleased takes of the original material.

Track list:

Disc 1

1. "To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night" – 6:46
2. "Wintry Grey" – 4:34
3. "Whence And Whither Goest The Wind" – 5:14
4. "Raudt Og Svart" – 5:48
5. "The Bodkin And The Quietus" – 4:34
6. "Du Nordavind" – 3:59
7. "Fall Of Man" – 6:05
8. "Naar Kulda Tar" – 4:21

Disc 2

1. "The Deep Is The Skies" – 4:19
2. "Cosmojam" – 1:45
3. "Raudt Og Svart" – 6:08
4. "Icebound Streams And Vapours Grey" – 4:44
5. "Naar Kulda Tar" – 4:28
6. "Du Nordavind" – 4:29
7. "My Angel" – 5:56
8. "Morax" – 6:28

CD2:

Tracks 1 and 2 were previously unreleased.

Tracks 3-6 were taken from the Constellation EP (1994) (remixed and/or remastered).

Tracks 7 and 8 were taken from the My Angel EP (1991).

Under license from Misanthropy Records.

Recording information:

Aspera Hiems Symfonia is remixed and remastered. The band says that they didn't re-record anything, but by listening to it, it's obvious that Garm re-recorded some vocal parts.

Mastered at Strype Audio.

Arcturus "Disguised Masters"

Disguised Masters is a compilation album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus. The album has two new songs: "White Tie Black Noise" and "Deception Genesis". Other tracks are re-mixed versions of songs from La Masquerade Infernale and "Du Nordavind" from Aspera Hiems Symfonia. Some songs received particularly significant overhauls, such as the gangsta rap version of "Master of Disguise". Due to the significant changes to several of the band's songs, it is not a typical compilation album, and is therefore more suited to existing fans of the band than new listeners.

Track listing

1. "White Tie, Black Noise (Designed By When)" – 0:49
2. "Deception Genesis" – 6:35
3. "Du Nordavind (1998 Re-Recording)" – 3:54
4. "Alone (Intellecto / Valle Darktrip)" – 5:20
5. "The Throne of Tragedy (Phantom FX Jungle Remix)" – 6:49
6. "La Masquerade Infernale (Valle/Hellhammer Reconstruction)" – 2:23
7. "Master Of Disguise (Phantom FX Remix With 'Gangstafications' By S.C.N.)" – 4:25
8. "Painting My Horror (G. Wolf Levitation Mix)" – 5:37
9. "Ad Astra (The Magenta Experience)" – 4:39
10. "Ad Astra (Ensemble Version)" – 7:32

Tracks 1 & 2 are new songs.

Track 3: re-recording from Aspera Hiems Symfonia.

Tracks 4-10: remixes from La Masquerade Infernale.

Tracks 1 and 2, as well as various of the remixes, blend into each other.