Arckanum

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Arckanum
Origin Dalarna, Sweden
Genres Black metal
Years active1993–2018
MembersJohan "Shamaatae" Lahger
Past membersSataros
Loke Svarteld

Arckanum was a Swedish black metal solo band formed in 1993 by Johan "Shamaatae" Lahger, who was the only constant member. Arckanum ranks among the most influential and popular in the Swedish black metal scene.

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Shamaatae is also an author of occult literature and writes under the names Vexior/Ekortu. His first published work, titled Panparadox, was released 13 July 2009 by Ixaxaar. His second book, Gullveigarbók, was released in December 2010 by Fall of Man. His third book was published on December, 21st 2014 called Þursakyngi, it is said to be a "book series" with each book dedicated to the Thursatru tradition. As of 2018, he has published multiple books and has many more to come. He put the band to rest in favour of being a writer. [1]

History

Shamaatae joined his first band, Conquest, aged eleven, the band later evolving into Grotesque. [2] On leaving Grotesque, Shamaatae formed a technical death metal band called Disinterment, who recorded one demo and played a few gigs before splitting up. [2] At the end of 1992, Shamaatae decided to return to black metal and Arckanum was started. Initially a full band, it became a solo project after six months. [2] After several releases, by 1998 Shamaatae had discontinued working with Necropolis Records because they went under, and turned his attention to writing books on the subjects of Pan, Old Norse traditions, runic witchcraft and anti-cosmic Satanism/chaos-gnosticism. [2]

He was still involved in music during this time still working with Arckanum and playing drums with The Hearsemen. [2] Arckanum's album ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ was released on 1 June 2009. [2] Antikosmos and ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ featured the guest appearance of Set Teitan of the bands Dissection and Watain. Shamaatae released 3 more full lengths and several EPs and splits before deciding to record Arckanum's final album Den förstfödde which was released on 29 September 2017 through Folter Records, who are currently re-releasing the band's entire catalogue.

Arckanum was split up in 2018 in order for Shamaatae to focus solely on his authorship and spiritual ventures. On 26 April 2019, Folter Records released Första trulen, an EP which contains the remixed and remastered recordings that were supposed to be the 1994 demo Trulen; Shamaatae was unhappy with the original recordings and kept the material unreleased until after he disbanded Arckanum.

Lyrics

Arckanum's lyrics deal mainly with the worship of Chaos, as well as anti-cosmic Satanism. [3] He is noted for writing lyrics resembling Old Swedish, and he has stated that he tries to write his lyrics as grammatically correct as he can. [4] In his latest three albums however, the language is clearly meant to resemble Old East Norse.

Discography

Albums

Demos

EPs

Compilations

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References

  1. ↑ "Vexior". Archived from the original on 1 June 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Badin, Olivier (November 2008), "Prog-Gnosis", Terrorizer (176)
  3. ↑ Mincemoyer, John (November 2008), "Arckanum – Antikosmos" (review)", Terrorizer (176)
  4. ↑ Simon (26 January 2008). "Interview With Shamaatae Of Arckanum". emofag.net. Archived from the original on 9 July 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  5. ↑ "Arckanum to Release New Album - in Metal News ( Metal Underground.com )". Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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