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DOWNLOAD the Hortus Animae FONT !!
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OUT SEPTEMBER 12 !!
* A sample of the track 'The Mud & The Blood / Funeral Nation' has been added in the 'Samples' section !!! Check it out !! *
* HORTUS
ANIMAE have finally closed and signed a deal for the release of their
long-awaited new album entitled 'The Blow Of Furious Winds'. The band has
signed a release contract with Greek label SLEASZY
RIDER RECORDS who will release the album on
September 12th this year with a heavy duty promotion campaign. The album is an
amalgam of almost all styles and really represents the band's desire to
create the 'musical encyclopedia'. Recording and mixing was done at
Alpha-Omega studios with Producer Alex Azzali. The album will be released in digipack with a
'Making Of...' video track and 2 bonus tracks. Keep an eye out !
* The web-site is currently undergoing rennovation and will be online and active soon ! Keep checking back ! a
* The MERCHANDISE STORE has now been officially opened !! Check it out !
* Update from the HORTUS ANIMAE front. The
band has completed the mix of their new album entitled 'The Blow Of Furious
Winds'. The bonus tracks for the
album
will be a cover version of QUEEN's 'Fairy
Feller Masterstroke / Nevermore' and Dead Can Dance's "Summoning of The
Muse", featuring Liv Kristine (ex-Theatre Of Tragedy) on lead vocals ! A
'making of' video track should also be included. The
album shows an extremely heightened maturity in the song-writing and
performance of the band, forging an album that contains almost every kind of
musical expression known to Metal and beyond metal, truly expressing Hortus Animae's contemporary character of 'The Musical
Encyclopedia'. The artworkl will be handled by Neon
Trinity Kill studios who also worked with Ancient, Aborym and Hortus Animae on their debut release and will
feature the band in a new cultured image of secret society. It
will be a very innovative and diverse album !! Keep
an eye out ! * A whole new ‘Photo Album’ has been added in the BAND Photo Section
of the web-site. New photos from live and studio have been inserted
! Check it out !! * Look out!!! EVERY FRIDAY MORNING ( * NEW!!! HORTUS ANIMAE are confirmed in the bill of the first INFERNUM
FEST, organized by Ocularis Infernum
agency (www.ocularisinfernum.net). The bill also includes NECRODEATH, MORTUARY DRAPE and HORRID and
the date is the 12th of November at Velvet club in
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* OPPOSITE SIDES, a project made up of three HORTUS ANIMAE members (MARTYR LUCIFER, S.B. HYPNOS and AMON) together with ex-member Arke and Stefano Franchini from the death metal band ENTITY, have finished the recording and mixing of an EP entitled "The Eclipse Of Existence". Technical death / black metal in the vein of Pestilence, Death, Atheist, Cynic and Arch Enemy, but more straight and with a more modern view of extreme metal. www.oppositesides.com / eclipse@oppositesides.com
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OUT NOW !!! * ANCIENT - NIGHT VISIT
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OUT NOW !!! * * The DEAD CAN DANCE tribute album has finally been released by Black Lotus Records and is
available at all well supplied record stores. Once again, Hortus Animae
appear with the song ‘Windfall / Summoning Of The Muse’, featuring LIV KRISTINE (ex-Theatre OF
Tragedy) on vocals. CHECK IT OUT ! |
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* Official Merchandise for ‘Waltzing Mephisto’
is currently being printed. There will be long sleeves, t-shirts and girlie
shirts available for purchase through this web-site and distributed
worldwide. Keep an eye out for further availability confirmations ! |
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* HORTUS ANIMAE'S drummer GROM has recorded the drums for AMON 418's one
man band called HATE PROFILE. This work of particular and grim black metal
will be completed in the coming months with AMON taking care of all the other
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