Chaos Temple has released Nature's Equilibrium, an EP with two songs of dualistic forces. It is Chaos Temple's first new material in over five years, and signifies an expansion of their sound: a band previously of harsh drone and doom now with further elements: be it from other music, be it from nature itself.

The EP was released on January 11, 2019, both digitally and in CD format (100 CDs were made). It is the project's second EP, and fifth release overall, in its approximately 12-year history.

The primary channel for relevant information and music is at chaostemple.bandcamp.com. The EP is also available to stream on Spotify and other services.

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The first single from the upcoming album When Eternity Ends is now available. There will be one of two singles released preemptive to the full release of the album, and this first song, "Cast Down Into Ignominy", is both track three (of eight) and the album's shortest song.

When Eternity Ends marks a gigantic step forward for Chaos Temple. After roughly 14 years of existence, this music project is finally releasing its first full-length album, after three demos, two EPs, and now two singles released since 2009. To give you an idea how long this album has been waiting, the guitar tracks from "Cast Down Into Ignominy" were recorded in November 2010, over 10 years ago as of this post. When Eternity Ends starts off in a thick haze of death/doom, only to fall from this grace most emphatically from one song to the next. It is also the first physical release to receive the mastering treatment, as no releases before 2021 have been mastered.

Also, feel free to listen to my cover of Oh Land's "Sun of a Gun", re-titled as "Sunn O))) of a Gunn O)))", done, of course, in the style of pioneering drone doom band Sunn O))).

To listen to "Cast Down Into Ignominy" or any other publicly available material, feel free to go to streaming sites such as Spotify, or visit https://chaostemple.bandcamp.com.

When Eternity Ends by Chaos Temple: coming August 2021.

On August 11, 2021, I officially released When Eternity Ends by Chaos Temple via my vanity imprint Omnifice Productions. I have previously released three demos, two EPs, and three singles, and recognize this initial full-length debut as a harbinger of larger and amazing things to come, particularly musically. The album is inherently a metal album, but takes strange detours throughout, and does not stay content with meandering around one or two styles. If you ever know of the phrase "a tale of two halves", this would most greatly apply here.

While I had not had the album thought of in the context and actualization of which it became this whole time, what I will say is that I first recorded any given part of this album over 10 years ago, in November 2010. I was still living in my childhood home back then, and had guitar parts recorded that I would save for later. This song turned into "Cast Down Into Ignominy". Another song I had an at least vague idea of as far back as 2007 or so, but I had not gone around to recording it until semi-recently. Had I recorded it back then, it would have more likely been a straightforward old school death metal song. But, with the addition of keyboard and a galloping beat, and an almost surf-like attitude, the song "Zombiembryo" arose. The album has eight tracks, taking the listener through a journey of multiple realms, culminating with an epic ballad track titled "Candlelight Vigilante", a song telling a story of a vigilante woman who victors over the treachery and grotesqueries of a most evil man. this song, which clocked in at 17 minutes, 36 seconds, was a complex enough song to feel like its own album; it was, by a wide margin, the last song completed of all eight.

The album is a great stepping stone into the abyss, for it places the listener on a sonic journey into multiple realms, while itself being the harbinger of a greater one yet to come. Be you in the land of multi-generational zombies, an expiring universal void atop the plank stairs, or in the frosted mountains left behind by a vandal of biographies whom you once thought a dear friend; there is always a choice to either be a soulless creature or be amazing. There is no taking back your decision, because life will hasten forward quickly, even if the ruined society may not.



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