Ewigkeit


Formed in 1995, Ewigkeit is the experimental extreme music project of James Fogarty (aka Mr. Fog). The purpose of Ewigkeit is to create a unique musical style within the metal genres which it experiments with, rather than copy from others. After the release of the first album Battle Furies (1997) 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 (1999) 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 label, on which Radio Ixtlan was released in 2004, to general critical praise. 2005's Conspiritus (mixed by John Fryer), a conceptual album examining conspiracy theories, has progressed further, and 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. In 2006, EWIGKEIT made a live video recording entitled EWIGKEIT - Live From A Bunker, 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, Engl...

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