Jump to content

Ewigkeit: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
 
(132 intermediate revisions by 80 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
[[Image:ewigixtlan.jpg|Right|frame|Promotional photo of James Fogarty]]
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name = Ewigkeit
| image = JamesFog.jpg
| caption = James Fogarty
| image_size = 200px
| background = group_or_band
| genre = [[Industrial metal]], [[black metal]], [[progressive metal]], [[avant-garde metal]], [[electronic music]]
| years_active = 1994–2007, 2013–present
| label = {{flatlist|
* Beverina
* Casus Belli
* CD-Maximum
* Death to Music
* [[Earache Records|Earache]]
* [[Neat Records|Eldethorn]]
* Metal Age
* Mospharic
* Soyuz
* [[Svart Records|Svart]]
}}
| current_members = James Fogarty
}}


'''Ewigkeit''' is the musical project of English artist [[James Fogarty]] aka Mr. Fog from [[Brighton]]. Having released five studio albums, on 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.deathtomusic.com/ewigindex.htm |title=Deathtomusic.com |access-date=29 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165830/http://www.deathtomusic.com/ewigindex.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> but revived it in 2012.<ref name="discogs">{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/416439-Ewigkeit|title=Ewigkeit|website=Discogs.com}}</ref>
Formed in 1994, ''Ewigkeit'' is the one-man experimental [[extreme music]] project of [[James Fogarty]] (aka Mr. Fog).


==Band history==
==Band history==
⚫
The purpose of this one-man project was to try and forge a unique musical sound. After the release of the first album, ''Battle Furies'' on a short-lived [[Neat Records]] subsidiary called Eldethorn, Fogarty gave his entire music collection away to an [[Oxfam]] charity shop so that he would be free of influences creating his next work. ''Starscape'' was received well by the extreme music press, but label folded and the project was put on hiatus. During the missing years, Ewigkeit concentrated on his other black metal project [[The Meads of Asphodel]] and his collaboration with Jimmy Cauty on the multi-media project Blacksmoke.<ref name="deathtomusic">{{Cite web |url=http://www.deathtomusic.com/BTB/btb.html |title=EWIGKEIT - 'Back to Beyond' |access-date=8 September 2017 |archive-date=16 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116174732/http://www.deathtomusic.com/BTB/btb.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2003 ''Land of Fog'', was eventually released on Metal Age Productions. Fogarty himself regarded this as the first Ewigkeit album, and it gained him enough attention to get his project signed to [[Earache Records]], on which ''[[Radio Ixtlan]]'' was released in 2004, to considerable acclaim.<ref name="deathtomusic"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/ewigkeit-radio_ixtlan|title=Ewigkeit Radio Ixtlan|website=Exclaim.ca}}</ref>


Released in 2005, ''[[Conspiritus]]'' (mixed by John Fryer), a conceptual album examining conspiracy theories, has been hailed by many as "marking a maturation of Ewigkeit's eclectic sound". Also in 2005, a [[music video]] was made in collaboration with film-maker Anthony Gates for the track "Its Not Reality".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ju9VO36vM |title=Ewigkeit - "Its Not Reality" - YouTube |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=25 November 2016 |archive-date=9 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109010335/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ju9VO36vM |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2006, Ewigkeit made a live video recording entitled ''Ewigkeit - Live From A Bunker'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.earache.com/news_stories/ewigkeit.html |title=Ewigkeit News |access-date=8 June 2017 |archive-date=9 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909005327/https://www.earache.com/news_stories/ewigkeit.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> which displayed the project in a live setting acting as a free "online" gig - the 25 minute set (filmed in a [[bunker|Nuclear Bunker]] in the vicinity of Brighton, England) was uploaded to [[Google video]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5859630464124644924&hl=en-GB|title=EWIGKEIT - Live from a Bunker|date=19 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119071124/http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5859630464124644924&hl=en-GB|archive-date=19 November 2007}}</ref> Also recorded was a free download [[MP3]] [[Extended play|EP]], ''Return to the Land of Fog''.<ref>[http://www.earache.com/bands/ewigkeit/lof/land_of_fog.html Ewigkeit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016012722/http://www.earache.com/bands/ewigkeit/lof/land_of_fog.html |date=16 October 2006 }} at Earache.com</ref>
⚫
The purpose of this one-man project was to try and forge a totally unique musical sound, rather than copy from others. After the release of the first album, '''Battle Furies''' on a short-lived [[Neat Records]] subsidiary called [[Eldethorn]], Fogarty reputedly gave his entire music collection away to an [[Oxfam]] charity shop so that he would be free of influences creating his next work. '''Starscape''' was received well by the critical extreme music press, but label problems delayed the release of '''Land of Fog''', which was eventually released on [[Metal Age Productions]]. Fogarty himself regards this as the first 'proper' Ewigkeit album, and it gained him enough attention to get his project signed to the prestigious (in extreme music circles) [[Earache Records|Earache]] label, on which '''Radio Ixtlan''' was released in 2004. 2005 sees the completion of the next album '''CONSPIRITUS''' which is themed on conspiracy fact/theory, to be released some time later in the year.


In December 2006, Fogerty burned all his [[recording contract]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Ok-cFj0Wk |title=EWIGKEIT - Burn the Bastards - YouTube |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=25 November 2016 |archive-date=13 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313025651/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Ok-cFj0Wk |url-status=dead }}</ref> All previous Ewigkeit material was then made available at Deathtomusic.com. In January 2007, Death to Music Productions gave away a remastered and superior version of ''Battle Furies''. In March 2007, ''Starscape'' was available free, with the intention that all material will be fully released online.
==Music==


In March 2007, James Fogarty abandoned the Ewigkeit project, stating in the press-release, "... [metal] is mostly out-of-date, out-of-touch with its origins and (worst of all) conservative in the extreme..."
Ewigkeit blends many influences and styles of music together to create its distinctive sound. At its core, Ewigkeit is a blend of [[Metal]] and [[electronic music]], with influences from other genres of [[metal]] as well as [[folk]], sample based music, [[mediterranean]] and other [[world music]] sounds. [[James_Fogarty]] records all the instruments himself at his home-studio in [[Brighton]], [[UK]], though various guest vocalists, most uncredited, appear on some songs, along with numerous [[Sampling (music)|samples]] and audio clips.


An online link to Fogerty's new project, The Bombs of Enduring Freedom, was created with the debut self-titled album released in December 2007, and an EP ''Kalashikovs and Car Bombs'', followed in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1104371-The-Bombs-Of-Enduring-Freedom|title=The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom|website=Discogs.com}}</ref> During this time, he also produced the Old Forest album ''Tales of the Sussex Weald''.<ref name="deathtomusic"/>
==Trivia==


In 2012 Ewigkeit was reactivated, with a black metal sound, and two more studio albums were released: ''Back to Beyond'' in August 2012, and ''Cosmic Man'' (July 2017).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ewigkeit/6150|title=Ewigkeit - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives|website=Metal-archives.com}}</ref><ref name="discogs"/> In 2017, the band fully re-recorded its 1997 album, ''Battle Furies'', and re-released it as ''Battle Furies 2.017'', on CD via Death to Music Productions, and on vinyl via Beverina Productions and Casus Belli Musica.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Islander |date=October 29, 2017 |title=Shades of Black (Part 2): Ewigkeit, Horizon Ablaze, Ignis Haereticum, Kanashimi |url=https://www.nocleansinging.com/2017/10/29/shades-of-black-part-2-ewigkeit-horizon-ablaze-ignis-haereticum-kanashimi/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918101403/https://www.nocleansinging.com/2017/10/29/shades-of-black-part-2-ewigkeit-horizon-ablaze-ignis-haereticum-kanashimi/ |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |access-date=May 19, 2023 |website=No Clean Singing}}</ref> A new EP, ''Depopulate'', was released on 23 January 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metal-temple.com/site/news/view/general_news/ewigkeit-release.htm|title=EWIGKEIT: Release Digital EP "Depopulate" on January 23rd!|publisher=Metal Temple|accessdate=December 27, 2020|date=December 11, 2020}}</ref>
Ewigkeit means 'eternity' in [[German language|German]].

==Etymology==
Ewigkeit was the name given to this music project when Fogerty found the word in the English Concise Oxford Dictionary. A little known "imported" word, hardly used in the English language at all, Ewigkeit means 'eternity' in [[German language|German]]. He has been known in interviews to say that in retrospect, it was the worst name he could have chosen.


==Discography==
==Discography==
* ''Faery Lands Forlorn'' demo (1995, self-released)
* ''Beyond Realms Unknown'' demo (1996, self-released)
⚫
* ''Dwellers on the Threshold'' demo (1996, self-released / Death to Music Productions)
* ''Battle Furies'' (1997, Eldethorn / Death to Music Productions)
* ''Starscape'' (1999, Eldethorn)
* ''Music for the New Millenium'' demo (2000, self-released)
⚫
* ''Land of Fog'' (2003, Metal Age Productions / CD-Maximum)
* ''[[Radio Ixtlan]]'' (2004, [[Earache Records]] / Soyuz Music)
* ''[[Conspiritus]]'' (2005, [[Earache Records]] / Союз)
* ''Return to the Land of Fog'' (2006, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Lost Yet Not Forgotten'' (2008, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Back to Beyond'' (2013, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Cosmic Man'' (2017, [[Svart Records]])
* ''Battle Furies 2.017'' (2017, Death to Music Productions / Beverina Productions / Casus Belli Musica)
* ''Starscape 2.019'' (2019, Death to Music Productions)
* ''DISClose'' (2019, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Declassified'' (2019, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Land of Fog (20/20 Re-Vision)'' (2020, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Depopulate'' (2021, Mospharic)


⚫
Ewigkeit has appeared on various [[compilation album]]s, notably:
⚫
*''Metal Hammer'' covermount ''Earache Sampler'' CD (2004)
⚫
*''Black Light Magazine'' CD sampler
⚫
*''No Holy Additives vol. 2,3 & 4''
⚫
*''Metal Age Productions'' sampler CD
⚫
*''Britannia Infernus''
*''Metal: A Headbangers Companion''


==References==
⚫
* [[Dwellers On The Threshold]] Demo, [[1996]] (Self-released)
{{Reflist}}
* [[Battle Furies]] Full-length, [[1997]] ([[Eldethorn]])
* [[Starscape (album)|Starscape]] Full-length, [[1999]] ([[Eldethorn]])
⚫
* [[Land Of Fog]] Full-length, [[2003]] ([[Metal Age Productions]])
* [[Radio Ixtlan]] Full-length, [[2004]] ([[Earache]])
<BR>
⚫
Ewigkeit has appeared on various compilation CDs ;
<BR>
⚫
*Metal Hammer covermount Earache Sampler CD (2004)
⚫
*Black Light Magazine CD sampler
⚫
*No Holy Additives vol. 2,3 & 4
⚫
*Metal Age Productions sampler CD
⚫
*Britannia Infernus
*Visions-A Tribute to Burzum
*various other underground-metal CD's & tapes


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.earache.com/ Earache Records]
* [http://www.earache.com/ Earache Records]
* [http://www.deathtomusic.com]
* [http://www.myspace.com/ewigkeit23 Myspace Page]
* [http://www.thebombsofenduringfreedom.com The Bombs of Enduring Freedom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820212006/http://www.thebombsofenduringfreedom.com/ |date=20 August 2007 }}
* [http://www.myspace.com/ewigkeit23]

{{Authority control}}


{{DEFAULTSORT:Ewigkeit}}
⚫
[[Category:heavy metal musical groups]]
[[Category:Beverina Productions artists]]
[[category:experimental musical groups]]
[[category: British musical groups]]
[[Category:British experimental musical groups]]
[[Category:Casus Belli Musica artists]]
[[Category:Earache Records artists]]
⚫
[[Category:English black metal musical groups]]
[[Category:Music and politics]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1995]]
[[Category:Neat Records artists]]

Latest revision as of 16:47, 12 December 2024

Ewigkeit
James Fogarty
James Fogarty
Background information
GenresIndustrial metal, black metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal, electronic music
Years active1994–2007, 2013–present
Labels
MembersJames Fogarty

Ewigkeit is the musical project of English artist James Fogarty aka Mr. Fog from Brighton. Having released five studio albums, on 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace[1] but revived it in 2012.[2]

Band history

[edit]

The purpose of this one-man project was to try and forge a unique musical sound. After the release of the first album, Battle Furies on a short-lived Neat Records subsidiary called Eldethorn, Fogarty gave his entire music collection away to an Oxfam charity shop so that he would be free of influences creating his next work. Starscape was received well by the extreme music press, but label folded and the project was put on hiatus. During the missing years, Ewigkeit concentrated on his other black metal project The Meads of Asphodel and his collaboration with Jimmy Cauty on the multi-media project Blacksmoke.[3] In 2003 Land of Fog, was eventually released on Metal Age Productions. Fogarty himself regarded this as the first Ewigkeit album, and it gained him enough attention to get his project signed to Earache Records, on which Radio Ixtlan was released in 2004, to considerable acclaim.[3][4]

Released in 2005, Conspiritus (mixed by John Fryer), a conceptual album examining conspiracy theories, has been hailed by many as "marking a maturation of Ewigkeit's eclectic sound". Also in 2005, a music video was made in collaboration with film-maker Anthony Gates for the track "Its Not Reality".[5] In 2006, Ewigkeit made a live video recording entitled Ewigkeit - Live From A Bunker,[6] which displayed the project in a live setting acting as a free "online" gig - the 25 minute set (filmed in a Nuclear Bunker in the vicinity of Brighton, England) was uploaded to Google video.[7] Also recorded was a free download MP3 EP, Return to the Land of Fog.[8]

In December 2006, Fogerty burned all his recording contracts.[9] All previous Ewigkeit material was then made available at Deathtomusic.com. In January 2007, Death to Music Productions gave away a remastered and superior version of Battle Furies. In March 2007, Starscape was available free, with the intention that all material will be fully released online.

In March 2007, James Fogarty abandoned the Ewigkeit project, stating in the press-release, "... [metal] is mostly out-of-date, out-of-touch with its origins and (worst of all) conservative in the extreme..."

An online link to Fogerty's new project, The Bombs of Enduring Freedom, was created with the debut self-titled album released in December 2007, and an EP Kalashikovs and Car Bombs, followed in 2008.[10] During this time, he also produced the Old Forest album Tales of the Sussex Weald.[3]

In 2012 Ewigkeit was reactivated, with a black metal sound, and two more studio albums were released: Back to Beyond in August 2012, and Cosmic Man (July 2017).[11][2] In 2017, the band fully re-recorded its 1997 album, Battle Furies, and re-released it as Battle Furies 2.017, on CD via Death to Music Productions, and on vinyl via Beverina Productions and Casus Belli Musica.[12] A new EP, Depopulate, was released on 23 January 2021.[13]

Etymology

[edit]

Ewigkeit was the name given to this music project when Fogerty found the word in the English Concise Oxford Dictionary. A little known "imported" word, hardly used in the English language at all, Ewigkeit means 'eternity' in German. He has been known in interviews to say that in retrospect, it was the worst name he could have chosen.

Discography

[edit]
  • Faery Lands Forlorn demo (1995, self-released)
  • Beyond Realms Unknown demo (1996, self-released)
  • Dwellers on the Threshold demo (1996, self-released / Death to Music Productions)
  • Battle Furies (1997, Eldethorn / Death to Music Productions)
  • Starscape (1999, Eldethorn)
  • Music for the New Millenium demo (2000, self-released)
  • Land of Fog (2003, Metal Age Productions / CD-Maximum)
  • Radio Ixtlan (2004, Earache Records / Soyuz Music)
  • Conspiritus (2005, Earache Records / Союз)
  • Return to the Land of Fog (2006, Death to Music Productions)
  • Lost Yet Not Forgotten (2008, Death to Music Productions)
  • Back to Beyond (2013, Death to Music Productions)
  • Cosmic Man (2017, Svart Records)
  • Battle Furies 2.017 (2017, Death to Music Productions / Beverina Productions / Casus Belli Musica)
  • Starscape 2.019 (2019, Death to Music Productions)
  • DISClose (2019, Death to Music Productions)
  • Declassified (2019, Death to Music Productions)
  • Land of Fog (20/20 Re-Vision) (2020, Death to Music Productions)
  • Depopulate (2021, Mospharic)

Ewigkeit has appeared on various compilation albums, notably:

  • Metal Hammer covermount Earache Sampler CD (2004)
  • Black Light Magazine CD sampler
  • No Holy Additives vol. 2,3 & 4
  • Metal Age Productions sampler CD
  • Britannia Infernus
  • Metal: A Headbangers Companion

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Deathtomusic.com". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Ewigkeit". Discogs.com.
  3. ^ a b c "EWIGKEIT - 'Back to Beyond'". Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Ewigkeit Radio Ixtlan". Exclaim.ca.
  5. ^ "Ewigkeit - "Its Not Reality" - YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Ewigkeit News". Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  7. ^ "EWIGKEIT - Live from a Bunker". 19 November 2007. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007.
  8. ^ Ewigkeit Archived 16 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine at Earache.com
  9. ^ "EWIGKEIT - Burn the Bastards - YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  10. ^ "The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom". Discogs.com.
  11. ^ "Ewigkeit - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". Metal-archives.com.
  12. ^ Islander (29 October 2017). "Shades of Black (Part 2): Ewigkeit, Horizon Ablaze, Ignis Haereticum, Kanashimi". No Clean Singing. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  13. ^ "EWIGKEIT: Release Digital EP "Depopulate" on January 23rd!". Metal Temple. 11 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ewigkeit&oldid=1262678004"