Dark Experimental Ambient Black Metal

Velvet Cacoon consists of sole songwriter Josh and his dreampop muse Angela, two souls mesmerized by chemicals and the after-hours. They are architects of a minimalist sound existing somewhere between experimental black metal and ambience.

Velvet Cacoon - MUSIC


Velvet Cacoon
Genevieve (FMP 036)
Release date: Sept 14, 2004

1. 1
2. P.S. Nautical
3. Avalon Polo
4. Laudanum
5. Fauna & Flora
6. Genevieve
7. Bete Noir

Recorded March 2nd-30th 2004
All songs written and recorded by Velvet Cacoon
All songs performed by Velvet Cacoon
Piano on "Laudanum" by Heidi Ainsworth
Mixed by SGL & Dorothy Montoure/Winternational


These tracks and complete album are available through Itunes.

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Velvet Cacoon
Northsuite (FMP039)
Release date: May 29, 2005

1. Northsuite
2. Winterglow
3. Fire Bloomed From Frost
4. Chapelflames
5. Salts & Ashes
6. Bloodscents
7. Fire Bloomed From Frost*
8. Dieselflame Novapyre 1892*

Recorded August 2002 except tracks 7 & 8 in 2001
All songs written and recorded by Velvet Cacoon except track 3 by SGL, LVG, E.C. and track 6 by SGL, LVG, d.Marvin
All songs performed by Velvet Cacoon
Mixed by SGL & Dorothy Montoure/Winternational


These tracks and complete album are available through Itunes.

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Velvet Cacoon
Dextronaut / DSE Double CD (FMP041)
Release date: December 2006

1. Bloodletting*
2. Infinite Plateau
3. Nest Of Hate
4. Perched On A Neverending Peak
5. Setting Off The Twilight
6. A Year Of Decembers
7. Reverie
8. World Untouched By Mankind*

1. Velorum
2. Ambient Planet
3. Nighttime Ice Horizon

Early lost material finally comes to light. Completely Re-mastered with a new sound and layout. Comes with a bonus CD featuring cold/ambient music.

--The first full length preparation with 8888 track recording. Concept based on the journeys experienced with dissociatives to achieve a true lunar black metal recording. Songs recorded and compiled over the course of 18 months. Extremely raw Chronicle/Compilation.

*Compositions courtesy of Veinke (Triumvirate Records)

Dark Ambient Black Metal.

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Velvet Cacoon
Atropine (Full Moon Productions/FMP051)
Release date: Oct/Nov 2008

disc 1:

1. Candlesmoke (6:24)
2. Funeral Noir (mp3) (9:35)
3. Graveside Sonnet (12:38)
4. Dreaming in the Hemlock Patch (36:44)

disc 2:

1. Nightvines (3:03)
2. Nocturnal Carriage (13:06)
3. Earth and Dark Petals (13:02)
4. Autumn Burial Victoria (27:55)

Recorded between December 2003 and August 2008
All songs by Velvet Cacoon

Atropine extracts of henbane were used by Cleopatra to dilate her pupils to appear more alluring. In the Renaissance, women used the juice of belladonna berries to enlargen the pupils of their eyes for cosmetic reasons (in Italian, "bella donna" translates to "beautiful lady"). Later on, belladonna was used by witches before flight. The juice of the berries was applied to their vaginas resulting in massive and sometimes lethal dosages of atropine. In this state of unbelievable hallucinatory incoherence, they believed they were actually flying on their brooms and as they spoke aloud their spells the results unfolded right before their eyes.

This album was carefully created over a four year period under the closely supervised influence of mandrake, hemlock, datura stramonium, henbane, belladonna and jesaconitine isolate. Most of the drone library was originally recorded to DAT and buried in the ground for two years before reviving them for use.

Out soon on Full Moon Productions

 

All of our maps are lost in the wind, luxurious wordplay back in hand, laced to the nines in immaculate decadence, the late Oregon fold, life on a grey seacoast, snowsailing into the deep December lavender of a heartbeat's cadence, drinking grenache, over and over, grenache grenache grenache, spiced lacquer coating in the fade of dusk, passages from "A Rebours", manic laughter at old art and new vignettes, music of the sea, stars, drugs, dreams, soft nothingness treasured, and after much delay we have finally started recording the new album.

What is there to say? The rain out here is endless, grey waves all day, black waves all night, sheets of freezing rain are almost piercing, very influential on this whole process. This feels incredible.

11.23.2005

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