Xathagorra Industries

Purchase Albums & Media (Note: Physical Copies Be Made Available Again Soon): Bandcamp (Purchase Digitally) Xathagorra Industries (YouTube) Most Recent Interviews: Releases: Origin Of Darkness – “The Living Darkness” 2016 Xathagorra Industries Inhumanly brutal, ultra-heavy and seethingly, horrifically dark, unnerving in atmosphere, absolutely massive and crushing in sound and style, uniquely styled and driving slow-burn death metal with doom leanings. Catacombs – “In the Depths of R’lyeh” 2006 Moribund Records/2013 Xathagorra Industries Ultra-extreme doom/death. Monolithic in heaviness, haunting and horrifying in atmosphere with a Lovecraftian essence. An instant world-known classic featured in numerous magazines and a book as one of the most extreme death/doom releases of all time, as the only band/album to ever truly capture the true atmospheres of H.P. Lovecraft’s literary works. Catacombs – “Echoes Through the Catacombs” 2001/2013 Xathagorra Industries Brutal, crushing, mysterious and haunting extreme doom/death. Considered a legendary cult underground classic. Hierophant – “The Tome” 1993/2013 Xathagorra Industries Heavy, mysterious and haunting extreme doom/death. Considered a cult underground classic. “The Tome” is a compilation of the first EP & “The Weight of Winter” as well as remasters of all songs. Abhorrent Rites – EP 1993/2022 Xathagorra Industries Experimental dark ambient with sick demonic black metal-esque vocals & seething, underworldly atmospheres. An EP that’s been heard by extremely few people over the years & was only made available for an extremely limited time publicly. Inimical – “The Other Gods” 2004/2033 Xathagorra Industries Intense, relentless black metal with some insane technical guitar work and seething hateful, dark underworldly atmospheres & esoteric concepts. Despite the speed and technicality, the album offers memorable and atmospheric riffs and compositions. In early 2022 the remastered version was found and now being released. The production was the only major problem with the album initially, the masters having been damaged soon after recording. The production is still not ideal, but far higher quality than the original recording and does the music more justice. Due to what it offered musically, it was received well by some, though the original production was a sticking point. It’s felt that this version comes closest to what can be done to do the album justice. This was released as a split with Sect, another black metal album in a different style written at roughly the same time. Random Press Quotes: Random Press Quotes: “Xathagorra creates extreme elite aural art for the majority of the minority.” – D.A. Darkstone “Origin Of Darkness is one of the most extreme, darkly atmospheric, brutal, stylistically unique and heaviest albums, in both sound and style I’ve ever heard in the genre of extreme slow-burn death metal.” – D.A. Darkstone “Catacombs ‘In the Depths of R’lyeh’ is the only album to truly do justice to the atmosphere of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Incredibly composed, monolithic in heaviness and inhuman in it’s atmospheres, it’s genuinely a masterpiece of extreme death/doom metal.” – MetalReview “In the Depths of R’lyeh offers arguably the darkest, dankest, most forlorn, and truly heaviest – in EVERY sense of the term – extreme doom/death record ever created.” – Moribund Records “In The Depths of R’yleh is an essential addition to any Extreme Doom collection.” – Metalreview.com “In the Depths of R’lyeh is arguably the pinnacle of the genres limit.” – DigitalMetal.com “Harsher than virtually any modern doom, Catacombs surge from the most horrific depths of hell and sink deep into one’s soul… A superpathogen to end all humanity.” – Metal Maniacs “Consider Catacombs an entity among heavyweights Disembowelment and Thergothon.” – Explicitly Intense “If people actually played funeral doom bands like Catacombs at wakes, people would be too afraid to die.” – CMJ “Overall brilliant, well-produced and composed funeral doom metal. (9.1/10)” – Maelstrom Issue #42< “…this is a monolithic release in more ways than one. I’ve never used the term ‘pants-shittingly heavy’ to describe any music, but I guess there’s a first time for everything. Quite frankly, while countless metal bands have drawn inspiration for their lyrics and imagery from the very same text, none before this have captured the feeling of sheer terror and impending calamity that Lovecraft conveyed with his writing quite so perfectly.” Rating: 9.8 – DIABOLICAL CONQUEST Catacombs Featured In Two Books (Hierophant In One): “THE STRANGE SOUND OF CTHULHU” Gary Hill – Music Street Journal The book revolves around music and bands that that have been inspired by and written songs which revolve around or have been inspired by the literary works of H.P. Lovecraft, and includes a decent length band description and short Q&A of the bands (some major bands, such as Metallica etc) that have been interviewed for the book. “NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS ON H.P. LOVECRAFT” The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer. The book is actually an academic publication, publisher Palgrave Macmillan, they do academic texts, text books, etc. So its a legit, edited, academic text. Biography (As Writ By Moribund Records For Catacombs): A distant rumble. The earth crumbles. Heads cave in, bowels shudder. Foundations moan, and then collapse. A lonesome lullaby lingers like fog. A sepulchral bellow breaks the trance, but then leads it further into the primordial maw. Time evaporates. Coma. Your day is ruined. Verily, the sound of CATACOMBS debut for the CULT, In the Depths of R’lyeh. However, such mastery of terrorizing tectonics goes back a decade, forever gestating in the womb. Not surprisingly, Catacombs is the sole vision of one Xathagorra Mlandroth. Originally hailing from New Jersey and currently residing in Arizona, Xathagorra has been a pioneer and figurehead in the extreme doom/death genre since his first release in 1996, of the legendary doom/death entity Hierophant. Extreme doom/death has always been a natural style for Xathagorra, before the aesthetic had even really formed into a recognizable genre. Being extreme on a personal level as an individual, he naturally strived for the lowest tones and heaviest riffs possible, which manifested into the extreme style of doom/death for which he’s known. With three releases under the now well-cult Hierophant banner, Xathagorra endeavored take his brand of extreme doom/death to the next level. That next level would be Catacombs, a more evolved and more extreme style of ultra-doom/death, and an even more unique aesthetic. The first Catacombs release, a thirty-minute EP, brought to the genre an unrelenting heaviness and suffocating darkness previously not experienced by those into such an extreme form of music. But with In the Depths of R’lyeh, unfathomably, those limits are crushed and then ground into the dust from whence they came. Exactly a decade after his first foray into the realm of extreme doom/death and three years after the first Catacombs release, In the Depths of R’lyeh offers arguably the darkest, dankest, most forlorn, and truly heaviest in EVERY sense of the term, but especially pertaining to the natural realm extreme doom/death record ever created. Here Catacombs breaks new ground again, in every sense of both terms with its unique, uncompromising style, a heaviness most monolithic and palpably dark atmospheres that emit no light whatsoever. Thus, abandon hope NOW. An amalgam of colossal heaviness sonically and, metaphorically, cyclopean atmospheres of haunting, beyond-the-shade darkness, altogether bordering on the macabre and most definitely unsettling, In the Depths of R’lyeh will soon be mentioned in the same breath as such defiant legends as Disembowelment, Unholy, Skepticism, Thergothon, and Winter. In spring 2007 Echoes Through The Catacombs will be re-released in a 4 track version with 2 additional remasters of original tracks. Biography (New & General): XATHAGORRA INDUSTRIES was formed out of Xathagorra Mlandroth’s old record label and while predominantly is the medium for his musical releases, it also wille encompass other forms of media in the future such as photography, film, publishing and a few other things. While considered one of the “godfathers of extreme doom/death”, known globally predominantly for his extreme doom/death releases, Xathagorra’s musical style has ranged across the board of extreme metal for two decades. While dedicated to continuing to release music in the genre for which he is most known, extreme doom/death, there are many extreme metal releases to come in various genres. The decision to return to running his own label came about for many reasons, some personal, some related to the industry, but in either case, Xathagorra will continue to release truly extreme music of many forms for years to come. All releases are owned solely by and Copyright/Trademark XATHAGORRA INDUSTRIES.