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Voidcraeft is my latest one-man musical endeavour.
Instrumentally and vocally it is somewhat atypical black metal, flirting with blackened death metal.
The lyrical themes deal with emptiness, alienation, suffering, violence and the human condition in a rather abstract way.

In my early days I was primarily influenced by raw black metal like Darkthrone (primarily Under a Funeral Moon and perhaps Transilvanian Hunger, they haven't made anything resembling black metal in close to a decade now, though) and Katharsis (of Norma Evangelium Diaboli fame).
In the past ten years the two artists I consumed the most and returned to over and over again are avant-garde black metal legends Deathspell Omega and Australian experimental (blackened) death metal pioneers Portal.
Other bands worth mentioning are Nightbringer, Black Witchery, Diocletian and Antediluvian.

I have been accused of trying to gain publicity by dropping some big names but mind you, I never claimed that my music would appeal to people who are fond of some of the aforementioned artists.
In fact, I feel largely unable to imitate the style of the artists I admire the most (i.e. Deathspell Omega and Portal).
I just think it helps with putting the music into context and gives you some insight into what motivated and inspired an artist in their creative process.

Ideologically and lyrically I would like to distance myself from themes that embrace theism, satanism or other supernatural beliefs in an affirmative way.
As a firm atheist, I disapprove of such content and I will not make my music a vessel for anything like it, despite their prevalence and popularity within the black metal scene.

The process of making this release was far more smooth and not as dramatic as Disgust.
Even though I returned to the established 7 minute track pattern, these two releases are largely identical in style and I applied the same lyrical process, too.

While the shorter tracks prevent me from fitting an entire consistent lyrical unit into one track, it is much more practical.
I prefer recording vocals in a single session and I must admit that growling for up to two hours to do an entire 15 min track can be brutal.
My vision is blurred, I keep on seeing bright spots racing across the walls and all sounds are distorted by an echo.
Maybe my breathing technique is just really poor.

Lyrically this release was dominated by William S. Burroughs and Emil Cioran.
I recently got my hands on some more books by Cioran.
He is by far the most dramatic and hilariously over the top philosopher I have come across.
The amount of lyrics I can generate from just a few pages written by that man is immense.
In that regard he is the most effective author I have relied on in my musical endeavours.

The irritating title of the track Void Militant is actually a somewhat humorous reference to the Catholic concept of the "Church Militant".
The original term refers to the Christians who are still experiencing life on earth and are yet to undergo the Day of Judgement, as opposed to those who have already been granted (or even denied) access to paradise.
The "Void Militant" might then refer to a hypothetical dispersed group of people who are struggling with renouncing worldy existence.
However, the analogy ends right there because an atheistic view of the universe features no afterlife and does not address the "Church Triumphant" nor the "Church Penitent".

If I am going to make another release, its lyrics will likely exclusively be based on writings by Cioran.
I already started hoarding more material.
By the way, the cover art of this release is also a poor imitiation of an illustration I encountered in one of his books.