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Soares29 Escreveu:Gostava era de saber como o Marek Šmerda engatou a Zoe Marie Federoff.

Brunhu Escreveu:

Referia-me a isto:
Smerda: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?stor ... XydrsiA67#
Zoe: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?stor ... nmGpjWaZA#

Vooder Escreveu:

Soares29 Escreveu:Gostava era de saber como o Marek Šmerda engatou a Zoe Marie Federoff.

Soares29 Escreveu:Gostava era de saber como o Marek Šmerda engatou a Zoe Marie Federoff.

Psychoneurosis Escreveu:Entretanto esta conversa toda fez-me sacar o "Midian". Tinha parado no "Damnation and a Day" mas entretanto vendi-o e ao "Midian". Deixa lá ver como isto sabe ao fim de tantos anos.

The term ‘back from the grave’ takes on a whole new meaning with the release of this (thought to be long lost) epic recording by the much-missed British Doom Metal lords: Cathedral. 'Society’s Pact With Satan' was the last ever recording made by the band, back back in 2012. It was recorded at the end of the sessions for their swan song album; 2013’s 'The Last Spire'.
But, for some reason, the 30-minute track was not mixed at the time, thus pretty much forgotten about by everyone involved, until very recently. Rediscovered by producer Jaime Gomez Arellano, whilst sorting through his old studio recordings, he excitedly alerted the band, saying that he had discovered a long-lost gem. Upon hearing it, the band members were convinced enough to agree that it should see a commercial release.
So, here we have it: the final sermon by Cathedral and what a way to go out. It’s an unapologetic, uncompromising exercise in macabre observations, musical eccentricity, brutal riffing and general arcane self-indulgence. There genuinely was/is no other band like Cathedral.

'Society's Pact With Satan' is released via Rise Above Records on October 3rd 2025.

Swedish black metal band Watain have announced they will disband in 2028 following the release of their eighth and final full-length album, marking the band’s 30th anniversary. In a cryptic statement, the band described the upcoming record as the culmination of a three-decade-long artistic journey. Over the next three years, they plan to release new music, perform live, and carry out additional yet-to-be-revealed activities. Watain emphasized this is not a sudden farewell, but a deliberate conclusion to their legacy.

The band's full statement reads as follows:

"Ladies and gentlemen, followers, allies and supporters, this is a solemn transmission from the Temple of Watain.

We hereby announce that in III years' time – upon our 30th anniversary – Watain's eighth and final full-length album will be released. The album will mark the closure of a thirty-year-long magical Work, the last crossroad of Watain, after which the band will cease to exist. The ending of a triad of decades during which we have shared our sacred path through this strange world with you, our loyal audience, on a steady course towards the beckoning darkness of The End.

Over the course of the next three years, the reasons for this will be spoken of and accounted for. But for now we just want to say this: Have our songs and our art not always dealt with finitude and mortality, with DEATH and the beyond? Now it is time to claim our own conclusion, and shape it as we have shaped our stage and our songs, in the fires of will. Instead of being consumed by the jaws of time, or broken upon the wheel of circumstance, we choose to let Watain return, unbowed and undefeated, back into the primordial chaos that once gave it life.

And so we stand on the threshold to our final chapter, and III years of Work remain. III liminal years in the borderlands between the living and the dead, during which new music will be written and shared, concerts will take place, and other things, that will be revealed in due time, will emanate, with the certainty of DEATH, from the Temple of Watain.

Take this message not as a farewell, but as the first note of a sacrificial requiem, as well as your invitation to partake in shaping these last years into something beyond compare.

Praise be to the Devilgod by whom our path is blessed, and upon whose altar we now place this our humble offering.

To the DEATH and far beyond!"