Cemetery Lights

Cemetery Lights

Lemuralia

Nuclear War Now

***LP reissue of CEMETERY LIGHTS’ first demo of necromantic occult black metal, previously only available on cassette. While it is often true that distinct musical styles are unique to a given location and era in history, occasionally this axiom is broken by a band that somehow manages to fracture the paradigm and insert itself as a welcomed anachronism in the present day. In this vein, Cemetery Lights, though a native of North American soil, convincingly channels and combines the musical spirits of European metal forefathers such as Mortuary Drape, Samael, and Tiamat, and melds them with the literary traditions and culture of Ancient Rome to create something that is both reverent to the past and equally relevant to the present. The band’s debut demo, Lemuralia, was first disseminated on cassette in very limited numbers on the ninth of May, 2018, to commemorate the advent of the Lemuralia festival, an ancient Roman celebration featuring exorcism rites to banish malicious spirits from the home. A few short months later, Nuclear War Now! Productions saw fit to release Cemetery Lights’ second demo, The Church on the Island. Now, in an effort to make the first recording more widely available, NWN! offers reissue LPs of both albums for the enjoyment of disciples of the aforementioned traditions.

Cemetery Lights

The Church On The Island

Nuclear War Now

***LP reissue of CEMETERY LIGHTS’ second demo of necromantic occult black metal, previously only available on cassette. While it is often true that distinct musical styles are unique to a given location and era in history, occasionally this axiom is broken by a band that somehow manages to fracture the paradigm and insert itself as a welcomed anachronism in the present day. In this vein, Cemetery Lights, though a native of North American soil, convincingly channels and combines the musical spirits of European metal forefathers such as Mortuary Drape, Samael, and Tiamat, and melds them with the literary traditions and culture of Ancient Rome to create something that is both reverent to the past and equally relevant to the present. The band’s debut demo, Lemuralia, was first disseminated on cassette in very limited numbers on the ninth of May, 2018, to commemorate the advent of the Lemuralia festival, an ancient Roman celebration featuring exorcism rites to banish malicious spirits from the home. A few short months later, Nuclear War Now! Productions saw fit to release Cemetery Lights’ second demo, The Church on the Island. Now, in an effort to make the first recording more widely available, NWN! offers reissue LPs of both albums for the enjoyment of disciples of the aforementioned traditions.

Cemetery Lights

The Underworld

Nuclear War Now

***After two well-recieved demos CEMETERY LIGHTS unleashes a debut album of occult black metal. Composed of eight songs written primarily between 2009 and 2014, The Underworld seeks to describe the realms of greek mythology. Thus, the music and lyrics are paired, for example, to boldly proclaim the splendor of Olympos, the dread of Tartaros, and the melancholy of The Fields of Asphodel. This outcome was achieved in great effect through careful study of primary tomes, such as Homer’s The Odyssey and Hesiod’s Works and Days, as well as several other complementary texts. With its thematic reference to Greece’s classic literature and its musical reverence of the country’s influence in black metal history, The Underworld stands out as a present-day example of an album that is much more than just a collection of songs written and performed in a similar vein, but instead a singular work that represents the ideal confluence of theme and music.