{"id":246,"date":"2019-04-14T17:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2019-12-19T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:21:34","slug":"the-way-of-nihilism-thematic-sampler-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/14\/the-way-of-nihilism-thematic-sampler-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way of Nihilism \u2013 Thematic compilation (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In close collaboration with long-time Mordor<\/strong> associate Alghor Dursan, now deceased, and a few friends, the thematic compilation The Way of Nihilism<\/em> was released on a cassette tape at the beginning of 1993 by our own label Dark Industries Records. Only 111 numbered copies were available, and some persons considered it \u201ca peak in dark post-modern art\u201d. Philosophically, the purpose was to investigate by means of music and noise projects different possible definitions of nihilism.
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Mordor<\/strong> song \u201cIn Search of the Pure Negation\u201d was especially recorded for this compilation and later was used as bonus track on the Wild Rags version of Csejthe<\/em> in 1995. Using gloomy atmosphere and a slow tempo, it tells the quest of a man from sorrow and despair to his final spiritual liberation from the cycle of birth and death, which is called in Hinduism mukti <\/em>or mok\u1e63a<\/em>, through antinomian rituals based on the Tantric Left-Hand path, hieros gamos and the recovery of the primordial unity of the divine couple \u015aiva and \u015aakti, opposed only in appearance. The dark goddess K\u0101l\u012b is the power of vacuity unattainable by words and mind, who destroys time, bonds, the negation of life and death, form and non-form. A process of deprogramming and questioning domestication, all values and conceptions regarded as universal or normative in a materialistic society is a necessary first step to conduct a spiritual quest, an active nihilism.
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\nCover in B\/W of \u201cThe Way Of Nihilism\u201d, 1993.<\/em><\/p>\n

The devastating recording session of G.O.R.A<\/strong>., influenced by noisecore and industrial music, explored nihilism resulting from contemplating historical atrocities, natural \u2013 or caused by human endeavour \u2013 disasters, and the insignificance of mankind, not more important than bacteria, in an absurd, chaotic universe without meaning. Vorsaken<\/strong> was an icy minimalistic doom metal as cold as concrete and metal buildings of metropolises, or the solitude of men not belonging to the unconscious, passive nihilism characteristic of the contemporary world.
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Besides Art\u2019Sneider<\/strong>, Alghor Dursan’s experimental project which looked into the dark traits of human personality, The Way of Nihilism<\/em> also included Odessa<\/strong>, Dam Gomhory’s ambient side-project based on horror movies, and Cult of Noise<\/strong>, using only atmospheric guitars to refer to the serenity of emptiness or voidness beyond the phenomenal world and conceptual constructs; ultimately, things and beings are devoid of any true intrinsic, independent existence.
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\u201cMay I see the three worlds with Thy grace as a crematorium burning all impurities, occupied only by the black, undifferentiated fire of K\u0101l\u012b.\u201d
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In Search Of The Pure Negation – Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Side A<\/p>\n

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  1. Mordor \u2013 In Search of the Pure Negation<\/li>\n
  2. G.O.R.A. \u2013 The Awakening of Chaos<\/li>\n
  3. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Crematorium<\/li>\n
  4. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Discordant<\/li>\n
  5. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Dissection<\/li>\n
  6. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Razor Blade (In Two Movements)<\/li>\n
  7. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Pure Hate<\/li>\n
  8. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Bestial Orgy (The Second Reign)<\/li>\n
  9. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Dissolution<\/li>\n
  10. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Fourth Reich<\/li>\n
  11. G.O.R.A. \u2013 Final Destruction<\/li>\n
  12. Vorsaken \u2013 No Life<\/li>\n
  13. Vorsaken \u2013 No Joy<\/li>\n
  14. Vorsaken \u2013 No Hope<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Side B<\/p>\n

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    1. Art’Sneider \u2013 Analyptique 1<\/li>\n
    2. Odessa \u2013 Dream of a Cenobite<\/li>\n
    3. Cult of Noise \u2013 Transcendance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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