Review: Hammemit - Spires Over the Burial Womb

“Spires Over the Burial Womb” is the debut release for HAMMEMIT; the new identity of UK Black Noise project EMIT; though now featuring additional members to the enigmatic U.I./Malachi. Released by the well-respected label Total Holocaust Records (a personal favourite of mine), this is a truly stunning album, steeped in confounding mystery and evoking a morbidly religious Medieval atmosphere. After following EMIT for a number of years I was keen to hear the difference in direction that inspired the name change to HAMMEMIT, and I have to say that the album is perhaps the most consistent and effective to date. Whereas EMIT are in a similar vein to ABRUPTUM (although undeniably superior to ABRUPTUM), HAMMEMIT is totally fresh and individual. After many productive years in existence for EMIT, “Spires Over the Burial Womb” is a superlative work that takes the band to a higher... Post Continued Here

Hammemit - Nature Mystic out today

As America celebrates it’s philosophical foundations, Hammemit releases a new full-length with influences and sounds that harken back to Europe a further hundred years, while adapting them into our current culture. Nature Mystic, out today, consists of two separate ’sides’: Nature Mystic – June-November 2008. Storms / Nature’s Beautiful Ugliness / Night’s Alone with the Stars / The Persistent Call Mysteries of the Church and Surrounding Environs – Late 2006-Middle 2007. How small they must have felt / Dreamstate Hagioscope / Mysteries of the Church . A Memory I Wish I had / Churchyard Tree / Beneath the Ancient Dust Nature Mystic is now available for order, wholesale and select trades.

Podcast: Hammemit - Reclaiming and Exposing Influences

The intention of this playlist is partly to enlighten listeners as to the influences that helped inform and shape Emit & Hammemit, but mainly to provide a more than agreeable listening experience for likeminded persons. All of the music below is widely available and not obscure in the least, but it still remains a largely undiscovered quantity to the majority of people for whom it would have the most benefit. I hope to help redistribute this music away from mere scholarly exercises and faux-elitist snobbery back to where it belongs and where it is sorely needed. I’d like to add that I generally refrain from using the term “early music”, as this unfairly and wrongly implies that the music is somehow more primitive and not as fully formed or developed as modern music. Note: We are making this podcast available on the same day Hammemit’s new full-length “Nature... Post Continued Here

Hammemit - Nature Mystic Details

We are finalising the layout with the printers for Hammemit’s next release, Nature Mystic. This CD contains some of the most recent recordings by U.I/Malachi M. Intended originally as a vinyl release, the Side tracklist is preserved along with the gatefold design layout (crafted by Malachi M). Side A – Nature Mystic was recorded between June and November of 2008. Side B – Mysteries of the Church and Surrounding Environs was recorded between late 2006 and the middle of 2007. Watch/Listen to a sample from the record, set to an Ipswich sunset.

Emit changes name to Hammemit

England’s EMIT announced at the start of this year a name change to formalise it’s new phase. The re-named project will be HAMMEMIT. The debut Hammemit album will be entitled Spires over the Burial Womb. It was recorded in the middle of 2007 and is the sole product of Unknown Ikon (later Emit recordings have involved several other individuals). Previously announced Emit releases, including Mother of Blood on Todestrieb Records, do not have a firm date set. A second Hammemit album is also 50% complete and may see a 2008 release. You can view personal updates from U.I. here, also note the link to anXpm where you can sample a couple of tracks from the forthcoming EP which we have previewed.

Ante Cryst - 7" EP (Preview)

If you managed to get a copy of the Ante Cryst tape you will be aware of the musical side of an earlier incarnation of this band. This tape does not prepare you for the cavernous natural sound and intense vocal performance that the ‘new’ Ante Cryst deliver on their forthcoming release, a 4 track EP coming in 2007. The band’s lineup has shifted considerably over its relatively short existence: “The Gaunt Hill” demo, 1998 “Malicious” demo/rehearsal 2005 Originally a project of Hygegeomor and Wyrm, the second recording “Malicious” saw Unknown Ikon of EMIT join as guitarist. The lineup for this new EP is without Hygegeomor and Wyrm. U.I. is joined by Adiatrikon (drums) and Old Koth (session bass). Adiatrikon is a member of a revitalised EMIT but also of the devout REVERORUM IB MALACHT. During the recording of this EP in Sweden, U.I. caught an illness at Uppsala and the resulting... Post Continued Here