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On August 25th internationally, Personal Records is proud to present Of Darkness' highly anticipated second album, Missa Tridentia, on CD format.

A cult band even among an already-cult scene, Of Darkness are an experimental funeral doom band hailing from Barcelona. While exuding the characteristic traits of the subgenre - sepulchral tones, glacial pace, suffocating atmosphere - the Spaniards look beyond mere metal for idiosyncratic deployment of other such musics as ambient, industrial, and especially classical. Intensely atmospheric and deeper than the abyss, their sound is the perfect landscape for the members' extreme nihilistic beliefs. And although those members concurrently play in such distinguished bands as Teitanblood, Balmog, and Graveyard among many others, in thought and deed is Of Darkness entirely its own entity.

Of Darkness was born in 2003 and released their first demo, Death, a few months after. In 2004, the entities behind the band started working on a new work, The Empty Eye, which was released in 2005. Around that time, several labels showed interest in both records: Goatowarex Records and Xtreem Music. None of those deals came to a good end, so the band stayed on hold for a few years until Psychedelic Lotus Order (the new guise/ruse of infamous rip-off Goatowarex) and Black Mass Records decided to give a second chance to both records, re-releasing them on limited vinyl and CD in 2009/2010. In 2012, in conspiracy with Black Mass Records again, Of Darkness released Scorpiace, a split tape with legendary Galician drone / ambient / industrial act Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere, which was re-released (including another very long track) later on CD by Gradual Hate Records in 2015. Perhaps most indicative of the band's unique take on funeral doom was the release of Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki - Passio et Mors Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Lucam. More or less their debut album, the 43-minute record indeed interpreted two compositions of modern classical master (and master of tension & terror) Penderecki, complete with a cover that mirrored those of Deutsche Grammaphone's long-running line of classical records.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Requiem Aeternam" HERE at Personal Records' Bandcamp. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Of Darkness' Missa Tridentia

1. Adjutorium Nostrum In Nomine Domini

2. Requiem Aeternam

3. Dies Irae

4. Deus Qui Humanae Substantiae

5 Eis Requien, Eis réquiem Sempiternam

6. Requiescant In Pace

7. Ite Missa Est