Deathspell Omega - Fas - ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum (remastered)

This is a remastered version of Deathspell Omega's fourth album, 2007's Fas - ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum (Latin for Divine Law - Depart, Ye Cursed, into Everlasting Fire, and a reference to Matthew 25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats). I have made two significant changes to the audio (my source was a lossless rip of the CD), both of which I feel improve significantly on commercially available versions of the album.

First, I alleviated the digital clipping somewhat using iZotope RX3 Advanced's declip function. (For those unfamiliar with digital clipping and the loudness war, TV Tropes has a good overview at http://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoudnessWar. Be warned that TV Tropes is also a notorious time vacuum.) The resulting product isn't as good as the unclipped mix would have been, but it has far more dynamic range and “punch” than the commercial release, and it is less fatiguing to listen to. (For those familiar with TT Dynamic Range Meter scores, this version scores DR12; the original CD scores DR6, and even vinyl rips have scored DR10 or DR11, though the dynamic range meter isn't too reliable for vinyl rips; the master of the vinyl version has the same clipping issues that the CD does, though due to the nature of the format, it’s still less fatiguing to listen to.) I don’t fully understand the mathematics of iZotope's declip algorithm, but it appears to scan the audio that falls outside the user’s selected threshold of clipping for frequency information, waveform slope, and number of clipped samples, and then attempt to fill in the missing gaps with a guess of what was stripped out.

Second, I raised the volume of the quiet passages with a gain envelope. Several passages of this album were mixed so quietly as to be almost inaudible. They are still quieter than the rest of the album in this version, but they’re clearly audible here. I feel this has added significant context to the album.

The result has raised this album for me from being on a par with Deathspell Omega's other work to being by far my favourite of their releases and possibly my favourite album of all time. I hope you enjoy it.

I make no claim to owning this audio, and what processing I’ve done to it wasn’t particularly complicated on my end (though iZotope's declipper is presumably an extremely complicated algorithm); all rights belong to Deathspell Omega and Norma Evangelium Diaboli, while the rights to the cover artwork presumably belong to the estate of the artist, Timo Ketola (R.I.P. – 2020 was such an abysmal year overall). If you enjoy this and can afford it, you should buy the album; you can purchase a digital version at https://deathspellomega.bandcamp.com/album/fas-ite-maledicti-in-ignem-aeternum. Those who prefer physical versions of music should be able to find CD or vinyl versions easily with a Google search; both formats have been in print fairly consistently.

For those wanting more info about this band, I strongly recommend their June 2019 interview: http://bardomethodology.com/articles/2019/06/23/deathspell-omega-interview/ in which they indicate, inter alia, that one of their central goals is “to shatter a myth that’s so central to stability both on an individual and civilisational level: the impervious necessity to believe that what we do is just, that we are just, that good and evil in intent and deed are as distinct as night and day. That what we do is condoned either by God or whatever man-made order that’s taken precedence – whose exceptionalism is of course indisputable and acts like a secular religion.” Their 2020 Cult Never Dies interview is also well worth reading: http://www.cultneverdies.com/p/deathspell-omega.html

reddit's Deathspell Omega wiki at https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathspellOmega/wiki/index has also proved to be a useful resource to me; its coverage is certainly more comprehensive than that of Wikipedia, which has annoyed me by deleting wiki pages for several of Deathspell Omega's releases. (I'm not sure how anyone could find The Synarchy of Molten Bones to be a non-noteworthy music release, for example.)

Track list (with interludes and major stylistic shifts within songs noted):

1. Obombration I - 0:00
Part 2 - 1’24”
Interlude - 3:54
2. The Shrine of Mad Laughter - 4:48
Part 2 - 7’33”
Part 3 - 8’40”
Part 4 - 12’21”
Interlude - 14:26
3. Bread of Bitterness - 15:25
Part 2 - 17’57”
Part 3 - 19’57”
Interlude - 22:27
4. The Repellent Scars of Abandon & Election - 23:14
Part 2 - 25’14”
Part 3 - 27’48”
Part 4 - 30’15”
Interlude - 34:09
5. A Chore for the Lost - 34:55
Part 2 - 36’38”
Part 3 - 39’22”
Part 4 - 42’31”
Interlude - 43:24
6. Obombration II - 44:10

(Reuploaded because, for unknown reasons, the last minute and fifteen seconds of "Obombration II" didn't upload the first time.)

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