Septenary Arts

01/01/2024

FAREWELL

You can rest assured it is with a heavy heart this announcement is made. But, as always, what must be done will be done, and now it is time for this gateway to close.

Following in the trails of the Satanic metal publications I created in the 90's, The Sinister Flame started as a printed magazine in 2004 with the vision of the ultimate Black Metal publication where the various dark philosophies, ideologies, and spiritual currents upon which genuine Black Metal is forever based on are examined and discussed with serious artists.

The label activities started on this very day in 2014 with the release of "Sinister Ceremonies" by Domains. It has been followed by 28 releases on TSF and 6 releases on our sub-label Septenary Arts.

Therefore it feels appropriate now, today, precisely 20 years since the beginning of the magazine and 10 years since the beginning of the label, to announce that 2024 shall be the end of TSF. That is – there will be no further releases.

It goes without saying that this has been a difficult decision, yet carefully considered one. There is a certain time and place for everything, and on a personal level it feels like TSF has now served its purpose and achieved the goals I initially set for it. In other words, it's time to move onwards – or beyond.

No doubt TSF has been an insightful ride for myself – with both the magazine and the label – and the stories are many. I am truly proud of the releases we did. I believe these releases will stand the test of time and they will surely be discovered time and again.

A sincere thank you to all of our artists, associates, distributors, supporters and customers throughout the years. You know who you are.

- Frater NW

13/07/2021

Our recording artist Bathory Legion opened a new website with all the information you need about this genuinely Luciferian composer.

https://www.bathorylegion.com

BATHORY LEGION │ HERMANN KOPP'DAS UNHEIMLICHE' split CD 2021LabelThe Sinister Flame division Septenary Arts │ FinlandMastered byTrollhorn Audio - FinlandOfficial USA distributionThe Ajna OffensiveArtwork byBathory Legion

19/06/2021

We are now on Instagram as well:

01/05/2021

BATHORY LEGION / HERMANN KOPP - Das Unheimliche

"Das Unheimliche on yhtenäinen ja taiten kasattu kokonaisuus, joka nimestään lähtien johdattelee kuulijaansa monenlaisten kiinnostavien ajatuksien ja ilmiöiden suuntaan. Se on selvästikin aivan jotain muuta kuin vain yksi kokeellinen levytys monien muiden joukossa. Siinä on syvään etsattuna ainutlaatuisen sinetti."

Miasma Magazine 9/10

CD-versio edelleen saatavilla:
https://www.thesinisterflame.com/shop/bathory-legion-hermann-kopp-das-unheimliche

1. Bathory Legion – Lahko [7:14]2. Bathory Legion – GAS n.71 [cover and remix] [5:18]3. Hermann Kopp – Scapinelli [7:19]4. Hermann Kopp – GAS n.71 [8:20]Das Unheimliche is a collaborative split recording between legendary Germany composer Hermann Kopp and Luciferian composer Bathory Legion.D...

21/03/2021

20/03/2021

BATHORY LEGION / HERMANN KOPP – Das Unheimliche CD

Full streaming: https://dasunheimliche.bandcamp.com
Order now: www.thesinisterflame.com/shop

Das Unheimliche is a collaborative split recording between legendary Germany composer Hermann Kopp and Luciferian composer Bathory Legion.

Das Unheimliche, which means the uncanny or eerie, is the first collaborative effort between these two imposing talents. Bathory Legion, who came up with the title, holds this concept to be the natural evolution, the coagulation, of the previous album Drepe, with its esoteric and sinister meaning overcoming the psychological one. Triggered by a recent event experienced, the Roman artist imagined a modified tetrahedron, a “terrible jewel,” as symbol – not of chemistry but of alchemy – fading into beauty. Bathory Legion’s opening track is titled “Lahko” (the Finnish word for “sect” or “cult”) and begins with a voice captured from the Russian radio UVB-76, evolving into a rhythmic avant-garde and experimental ambient adventure.

Hermann Kopp, who has made a significant reputation for his soundtracks to Nekromantik and Der Todesking in the ’80s, bases his “uncanny” track on a movie from 1913, The Student of Prague, in which a demonic figure named Scapinelli makes a young student sell his soul, takes away his reflection in the mirror, and creates a disturbing doppelganger. The track “Scapinelli” contains a quotation from the movie. Regarding Kopp‘s second track, “GAS n.71,” this was part of a series of recordings Hermann realized in 2017, a series which he called GAS. The recording was covered and remixed by Bathory Legion as the second track of the release with an intense pipe organ & drums sound.

Regarding the details of the artwork, Bathory Legion photographed a fairly old bottle in a house of the Apuan Alps, and this fact is full of meaning – which, however, will remain secret – and then created a digital painting of it.

USA distribution by The Ajna Offensive

4 track album

13/02/2021

The terrible jewel is approaching!

BATHORY LEGION & HERMANN KOPP - Das Unheimliche

https://youtu.be/-uMec5qAbG0

1st Excerpt: Bathory Legion - Lahko2nd Excerpt: Hermann Kopp - ScapinelliLabel and production: The Sinister Flame division Septenary Arts - FinlandMastered b...

04/01/2021

Attention!

Septenary Arts is proud to announce Das Unheimliche - a collaboration between Bathory Legion and Hermann Kopp.

After last year's terrific Drepe album, also released on Septenary Arts, the Roman esoterist Bathory Legion makes a return with two pieces that can be seen as the natural but more "melodic" continuation of Drepe. Joining in with two pieces of his own is the legendary composer Hermann Kopp, known world-wide for his stunning works for Nekromantik and Der Todesking.

Das Unheimliche explores the concept of the "uncanny" – but, rest assured, this has absolutely nothing to do with Sigmund Freud. So, be prepared for four pieces of “extravagant art” - a terrible jewel.

Exact release date to be announced later. Photo / digital painting and cover art by Bathory Legion.

Exclusive USA distribution through The Ajna Offensive

14/11/2020

Another review for Bathory Legion's haunting "Drepe". Still available via www.thesinisterflame.com/shop

http://hatredmeanswarzine.blogspot.com/search/label/Bathory%20Legion

This is a zine dedicated to black metal influenced music darkwave, neo-industrial, neo-folk,funeral doom, and doom metal with a blackened edge , for more info contact [email protected], check out the new zine http://hatredmeanswar2.blogspot.com which contains alot of material originally prese...

20/08/2020

"Drepen ainoa miinusmerkkinen puoli taitaa olla se, että jossain kohtaa levy loppuu."

[transl. "The only minus side to Drepe seems to be that at some point the record ends."]

Such an insightful review of Bathory Legion's
ominous masterpiece by Miasma Magazine

Still available here: www.thesinisterflame.com/shop

http://www.miasma.fi/bathory-legion-drepe-handligsformalat-mcd/

Arvosana: 9/10 Julkaisija: The Sinister Flame / Septenary Arts Italialainen Bathory Legion sai alkunsa vuonna 2005. Se ei kuitenkaan syntynyt tyhjästä, vaan

31/07/2020

This review will be published in the upcoming third issue of the glorious ABOMINATIO DESOLATIONIS magazine.

To buy "Drepe" and have the experience as it was meant to be, head over to: www.thesinisterflame.com/shop

22/07/2020

Thank you Santa Sangre for the review.

[Reviewed by stark] Bathory Legion is an Italian female solo project active for a decade, more or less. Since the beginning it has been dealing with an occult/ritual black industrial and things are…

14/04/2020

We are now streaming Bathory Legion's dark and baleful "Drepe [Handligsförlamat]" in its entirety via The Sinister Flame and Bathory Legion bandcamps.

TSF: https://thebathorylegion.bandcamp.com
BL: https://bathorylegion.bandcamp.com/

This is BATHORY LEGION's short but soul-crushing brand new opus. An avant-garde, hypnotic, sonic abuse of your consciousness in five acts; pain, death, afterlife, war and beyond. Not for the faint-hearted!

Order a physical copy either via bandcamp or our store.

USA distribution by The Ajna Offensive

20/03/2020

OUT NOW!

Bathory Legion - Drepe [Handligsförmalat] MCD

Order here: https://www.thesinisterflame.com/shop/bathory-legion-drepe-handligsfoermalat-mcd

Official USA distribution by The Ajna Offensive

Bathory Legion returns with a short but soul-crushing brand new opus. An avant-garde hypnotic sonic abuse of your consciousness in five acts; pain, death, afterlife, war and beyond. Harvest time has come!OUT NOW!

20/03/2020

OUT NOW!

V/A The Sinister Numinous LP [SA001]

Order here: https://www.thesinisterflame.com/shop/va-the-sinister-numinous-lp

Official USA distribution by The Ajna Offensive

18/03/2020

As the release date for the first two Septenary Arts releases is drawing near... Here is a bit more information on the mysterious entity called Bathory Legion for those of you who have not read the interview featured in the latest TSF issue.

"Already walking on the Sinister Esoteric path, BL started out as a Black Metal drummer and keyboardist from 1995 to 2000 playing in various underground formations.

In 2000, with Black Metal having lost much of its original meaning, BL abandoned the genre and commenced working under the name BATHORY LEGION on a unique blend of Avant-Garde music, Black Industrial, Occult Ambient and Obscure Electro, drawing forth inspiration from the quintessence of past experiences, with a style that may be compared to the electronic manifestations of DIABOLOS RISING and BEHERIT.

In 2019, BATHORY LEGION joined The Sinister Flame's ranks by signing to TSF sub-label Septenary Arts, and the first collaboration to manifest out of this pact was an in-depth interview published on TSF VI "Black Pilgrimage", wherein she explained the implication of the Esoteric in her personal and artistic life.

'Drepe - [Handligsförlamat]' - BL's thirteenth work - is to be released on March the 20th."

09/03/2020

Bathory Legion​ "Drepe - Handligsförmalat"

While waiting for the new album to come out (to be released on March the 20th on CD), here's a teaser made by Bathory Legion.

Pre-ordering via https://www.thesinisterflame.com/shop
Official USA distribution by The Ajna Offensive

An avant-garde hypnotic sonic abuse of your consciousness in 5 acts.

PAIN. DEATH. AFTERLIFE. WAR. BEYOND.

Concept/Music/Mixing and Artwork by Bathory Legion
Invocation by Edgar Kerval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt-pF1AGLT4&feature=youtu.be

Septenary Arts a division of the cult Finland-based label The Sinister Flame presents: Bathory Legion "Drepe - Handligsförmalat" new album. PRE-ORDER https:/...

28/02/2020

Bathory Legion - Drepe [Handligsförlamat] MCD

PRE-ORDER OPEN NOW: www.thesinisterflame.com/shop

Bathory Legion returns with a short but soul-crushing brand new opus. An avant-garde hypnotic sonic abuse of your consciousness in five acts; pain, death, afterlife, war and beyond. Harvest time has come!

28/02/2020

The Sinister Numinous – V/A compilation LP

PRE-ORDER OPEN NOW: www.thesinisterflame.com/shop

In the deeps of our present winter comes joyous tidings for those who bring damnation, and grievous sorrow for the mewling children of hope. From Western and Northern Europe an eerie Darkness descends, a tangible intangible, yet bright with meaning for those unafraid to peer into the Abyss that is the Shadow-side of the Soul. Here presented be a mere grain of sand from the human bone encrusted shores of the Left Hand Path – Musick of the Sinister Numinous.

A musical collaboration of the following artists: HAMMEMIT, DRASTUS, DEVERILLS NEXION, THE SILENT MISTERY, DULT, KRISTIAN OLSSON and SENTIESSENCE.

Limited to 300 copies, black vinyl only.

03/01/2020

31/12/2019

BATHORY LEGION Drepe - Handligsförlamat MCD [SA002]

- "BL returns with a short but soul-crushing brand new opus Drepe - Handligsförlamat, which translates to 'Killing - Paralysed in the Soul'; a clear hint of the intent and purpose of this new offering, an indissoluble triad whose three heads are concept, artwork and music. An entity that lurks between the shadows of genres such as Black Industrial in the past, Ritual Dark Ambient and unconventional fields such as Experimental and Avant-Garde music. Harvest time has come!"

31/12/2019

The Sinister Numinous compilation LP [SA001]

- “In the deeps of our present winter comes joyous tidings for those who bring damnation, and grievous sorrow for the mewling children of hope. From Western and Northern Europe an eerie Darkness descends, a tangible intangible, yet bright with meaning for those unafraid to peer into the Abyss that is the Shadow-side of the Soul. Here presented be a mere grain of sand from the human bone encrusted shores of the Left Hand Path - Musick of the Sinister Numinous. Featured artists: HAMMEMIT, DRASTUS, DEVERILLS NEXION, THE SILENT MISTERY, DULT, KRISTIAN OLSSON and SENTIESSENCE.”