Year of no Light spent most of the last 4 years spreading its enthralling psychedelic warfare to a continually growing audience. Alongside they parted ways with their singer and recruited two other thirsty mercenaries. Shiran, of über-doom combo “Monarch!”, brings now his chthonian six strings to an already massive cathedral of noise and ambient drone tones. Mathieu, of deviant-electronics act “Aeroflot”, strengthens ritualistic tribal rhythm patterns.
Out of their cave, they secluded into an old theater to record these 4 tracks catching every possible vibration of the trembling frame of this enlivened a new mansion. All the energy collected at that very moment forms “Ausserwelt”, the sophomore album of Year of no Light. Mystical emanations flow out of these riffs colliding into each other to an in ear-splitting shriek. Cranked amps and molested drums hurl their mourning chant as a choir intoning its final psalms at the dawn of the Last Judgment. Year of no Light follows the path opened by “Nord” towards more somber psychedelics, creating its own blend of black metal, sludge, drone or any other influence marked with the seal of darkness.
Still no caps, no core neither stupid modern nihilism but instead an ambiguous electrical network of acting singularities, now ready to afford the collective metaphysical crash to come.
released April 26, 2010
FIRST PRESSING INFOS (APRIL 2010)
1.000 copies on gatefold VINYL 2xLP (500 on black vinyl, 100 on cream, 100 on dark brown, 100 on clear blue, 100 on grey marbled, 100 on clear)
SECOND PRESSING INFOS (JUNE 2011)
1.000 copies on gatefold VINYL 2xLP (all on black)
THIRD PRESSING INFOS (DECEMBER 2013)
1.000 copies on gatefold VINYL 2xLP (300 on dark blue vinyl and 700 on black vinyl)
FOURTH PRESSING INFOS (MAY 2014)
1.000 copies on gatefold CD digisleeve
YEAR OF NO LIGHT
yearofnolight.free.fr
www.facebook.com/yearofnolight
jérôme alban (guitars)
pierre anouilh (guitars)
shiran kaïdine (guitars)
johan sebenne (bass, keyboards, electronics)
bertrand sebenne (drums, percussions, keyboards)
mathieu mégemont (drums, percussions, keyboards)
DISCOGRAPHY
"nord" (radar swarm records / crucial blast records / e-vinyl records / atropine records / cavity records / music fear satan, 2006)
"ausserwelt" (conspiracy records / music fear satan, 2010)
"vampyr" (init records / music fear satan, 2013)
"tocsin" (debemur morti productions, 2013)
"J'ai connu les frères Sébenne en 2005. Ils m'ont fait écouter la démo de Year Of No Light et m'ont motivé à fonder un label pour sortir la version vinyle de "Nord" car ils n'avaient pas trouvé de label pour la sortir.
Du coup, Year Of No Light restera toujours un peu spécial pour Music Fear Satan, étant le groupe à l'origine du projet de label." (Nicolas / Music Fear Satan)