Panicmachine

Opening proceedings on this one is a perky pop confection that will probably catch those who have been with us for a while off guard. Dead God consists mainly of a cassette rip of the third Veil of Thorns demo from 1992 that was never released. This opening track shows one immediately what a rock solid bass Cathy Chenoweth delivered in recordings and live. Here appears the many splendored pounding from Ruddy Bitch the Younger for the first time. That Emerson guy, well he moans and wails, on guitar he flails over hill and dale... Final track features a thunderous low-end bass apocalypsis brought by Christopher McClain.

Torrenters, and there have been many of you for these tracks, will notice there's a close match between Dead God and a release called The End of the Beginning. I figured I'd give this one one last go at cleanup on the sound and add in a couple tracks from The Dead God Sessions from the second lineup that aren't alternate versions of tracks from Cafe Flesh. I the result is a more solid experience, though still undeniably lo-fi and different from all other Veil of Thorns offerings.

Few people heard The End of the Beginning this at the time and none heard The Dead God Sessions outside the inner circle and Tiziana from Misanthropy Records. Raw recordings from rehearsal and pre production demos for the debut Veil of Thorns album in 1995. The Dead God Sessions tracks were recorded live in a single take in most cases, using two mikes, placed at either end of a 30’x30’ rehearsal room in Boston. The analog recording was extremely hot, so little compression or noise reduction was done.

Within days of the conclusion of the End of the Beginning recording sessions, Jarrett was gone and Cathy was on her way to New York. Christopher (Dogface) McClain was to step in and Veil of Thorns would start showing a new focus. McClain brought with him a massive bass rig that could raze small towns. In performing the title track live I would stick my head and microphone right in the speaker of the bass cabinet to add that overload of volume to the screaming at the end. Good times.

Already the vocals were less operatic, and there is even a hint of pop songwriting, something that was not to be revisited until much later on Birthed.

-P. Emerson Williams
Veil of Thorns

Dead God, by Veil of Thorns 10 track album

A collection of tracks from the second lineup. Some of these were reworked versions of tracks from “Legemet og Stemmen” but most were new. The original intention was to use this as a demo for Misanthropy Records who had offered the band a deal, but Misanthropy dissolved just after they received the demo.

Having played this material extensively in clubs, the performances were the most solid to date. New songs like “Demons Play”, She and Mine show Veil of Thorns as a versatile, powerful but graceful machine.
Veil of Thorns

Cafe Flesh, by Veil of Thorns 12 track album

Now in Spotify.
Bleeding Raven TONTTU P. Emerson Williams Veil of Thorns
https://open.spotify.com/album/0cL4rpS6AOWuKZDuag8ZYM?si=OHtLxaU3TFSCgV8r1nVudg

Gnomenblut - Single by Gnomenblut | Spotify Gnomenblut · single · 2026 · 1 songs

New Choronzon out.

The Ghost of Winter, by Choronzon track by PANICMACHINE

New release by P. Emerson Williams

Hindsight Vision In Dream-Time, by P. Emerson Williams track by PANICMACHINE

New release.
P. Emerson Williams

Collapse//Adapt, by P. Emerson Williams 9 track album

Phobos Reactor TONTTU
Now on spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2hrc8T5eIp4et08YXdOnd9?si=R26lZ7lxRDaO1Z4Zne6ryg

Hyi, Ihmisiä - Single by Phobos Reactor | Spotify Phobos Reactor · single · 2025 · 2 songs

Some things come about just from the impulse to see what emerges from an idea. I decided to add solos to the album To Xaos, improvising over every second of the instrumental tracks. What we have here is these solos, fairly old-fashioned, free of shredding athletics. I stripped away the original tracks and built more ambient arrangements around the solos.

The album art is adapted from concept art I drew for the FoolishPeople performance "Cirxus". The sound design I created for that is available right here on this here BandCamp.

χάος χάος χάος χάος
Choronzon

Chaocene, by Choronzon 7 track album

A final scream burst out as I burned with my red corpses. Dissent as system pain, texts of control, that private death trance of their conspiracies. This was a sadness transmission. Graven idols would promise ghosts and rivers of blood. Scattered cries of the flesh and the screeching framework, finding a poisonous surface cold light of the you the machine perpetuated.

By this methodology madness was reinforced. Scripted grey tears, the sun shadow disconnect. Blood lies struggling upon memory involving passions, the bright door aversion experience whispered a formidable pleasure, luminous as the doors through hysterically transitional, the scolding collaborator power secrets. Sacred programmers kiss poison flesh. Fractured meaning populated from spiral sages, beings swarm around battlements that rose out of hallowed ground.

χάος χάος χάος

In order to stop the process of adding elements and layers to this thing to the point where shuffling and fading these ever proliferating sounds becomes an analog of the Glass Bead Game, I drew a line under it, so something else could slouch my way to be born. The sound is a tad more stripped down than I feared...

-333
Choronzon

To Xaos, by Choronzon 7 track album

Now on Spotify.
TONTTU
https://spotify.link/1WRuLU9SwXb

Riimuja Ja Tonttuja - Album by TONTTU | Spotify TONTTU · album · 2025 · 5 songs

Pneuminous, by Choronzon 2 track album