Dark Adversary Productions

14/01/2025

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve III: Camelot in Flames" is now streaming in full on the Dark Adversary youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/bnODd7nmaVE?si=gUN7ATnVp4NZBJ0z

The third of the cycle.

Band: Drowning the LightRelease: "Conquer or Serve III: Camelot in Flames"Track list:1. All Hail the Philosopher King - 0:002. Poisoned Remedies from Poisone...

10/01/2025

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve II: The Natural Law is Tooth & Claw" is now streaming in full on the Dark Adversary youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/fL7r_695W6A?si=M0fgJ-lg4Hj7iILI

The second of the cycle.

Band: Drowning the LightRelease: "Conquer or Serve II: The Natural Law is Tooth & Claw"Track list:1. The Tides of Spring - 0:002. Devouring Ouroboros (Surviv...

06/01/2025

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve I: From Primordial Waters of Chaos" is now streaming in full on the Dark Adversary youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/0KdXUVB4v00?si=yErzHf9ymZRuRVTi

The first of the cycle.

Band: Drowning the LightRelease: "Conquer or Serve I: From Primordial Waters of Chaos"Track list:1. Timeless Coagulation - 0:002. From Primordial Waters of C...

04/01/2025

All five Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve" albums are currently in press and available for pre-order now!

ORDER HERE: https://darkadversary.bigcartel.com/

These include:
"Conquer or Serve I: From Primordial Waters of Chaos".
"Conquer or Serve II: The Natural Law is Tooth & Claw".
"Conquer or Serve III: Camelot in Flames".
"Conquer or Serve IV: Xeperapep".
"Conquer or Serve V: Setapophian Black Magick".

There is also a special edition limited to 100 which comes with a "Conquer or Serve" woven sigil patch, 2 x photos (signed and numbered on the back), the new cipher to solve (the first five to solve it win a tape only available to the winners), an info sheet on the five albums, a slipcase style box to house all five CDs and the five CDs themselves.

Also available is a bundle which has the cipher, the five CDs and the slipcase box.

I have made the slipcase box available separately as well, as I know some people might want to space out purchasing each album but will eventually get all five and want the box for them.

Finally all pre-orders go in a draw for a chance to win a copy of one of the rare promo-tapes that were made with some rough demo versions of different tracks (each promo tape is limited to 5 copies and only 1 of each will be available to win), these tapes are "Ashes of Idols", "Crowned by Lucifer", "A Forlorn Summer" & "The Imperceivable Seal". There is also a chance to win 1 of 8 long sold out zippo style DTL lighters (4 x gold & 4 x silver are part of the draw) as well as some older metal sigil pins.
The special edition and bundle count as 5 x entries.
This contest is only for pre-orders and will be drawn when the CDs arrive, which should be in the next few weeks if all goes smoothly. None of these items will be available outside of this draw, so don't ask.

In other news, all current orders are in the process of being shipped, a little bit of a back log due to my local post office being closed over Xmas/New Year.
Also I have still been unable to ship to Canada, I know the strike is over in Canada but Australia post are still not accepting packages to Canada, they said hopefully next week they will start again, the only vague answer I could get was that it was because there is such a build up of mail that they are delaying more going to Canada until it calms down a little, so hopefully that resumes next week.

29/12/2024

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve V: Setapophian Black Magick" to be released on CD in early 2025 through Dark Adversary Productions!
The fifth part of this five part cycle is "Setapophian Black Magick".
From the Black Pyramid, behold the world I have created!
A meta reflection of what the album is; an act of Setapophian Black Magick focused on Setapophian Black Magick!
Majestic, haunting and melancholic Black Metal!
Sonic spells that are seized from abyssic visions, that cultivate and take root, and as you close your eyes, you can feel those shadows shifting.
Aether and chaos now merge as one, dimensions above and horizons below.
Where once mental drought reigned, rivers now flow.
No longer bound to a reality that stagnates and decays.
Acausal voices now building in chaos.
A coiled onyx flame of wisdom, shedding its skin, revealing its shadow.
The inner daemon calls out and communes with that first form of isolate consciousness as Apotheosis is attained.
And now that power to create is granted... We cycle back to those primordial waters of chaos... Was this the end or the beginning of the cycle? Thus is the paradox of the ouroboros... As we fall into timeless dissolve.
Thus the cycle continues in part 1.

29/12/2024

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve IV: Xeperapep" to be released on CD in early 2025 through Dark Adversary Productions!
The fourth part of this five part cycle is "Xeperapep".
To come into being through something that came from chaos (Apep being the serpent of Chaos) and not originally part of the natural world. A reflection of this creation itself not only bringing about Xeperapep within myself but also being an act of Xeperapep within itself, never existing before or naturally occurring, coming into being from chaos into the cosmos.
All five of these albums are an act of Xeperapep.
Delving deeper into the void, towards the grail.
Currents merge and flow, from the starless acausal regions of the night to the flowing causal conjunction of cosmos.
This is the nexus of thought and reality as you pluck an eye from the falcon god of light to know the natural world, while Set conquers and merges with Apophis (Apep) to bring chaos into existence and signal this new Aeon.
The morning star fell, to bestow knowledge upon the chainless, and the flames of the old gods were stolen to light that path, as non-corporeal entities spill and meld into shadow form, and beyond the tidal spheres of darkness, Setapophis comes into being.
Breaking the paradigm of thought and opening that portal to the endless sea.
To understand you are Isolate yet all, that parameters are unlimited yet defined, and that the cycles of fate are defined but not determined.
This album is raw, majestic and melancholic Black Metal that walks the threshold between worlds.
Every track on this album lyrically ends with the word "Xeperapep" to signify the act of it coming into being while never previously existing outside of the abyss.
I bring these songs into existence as an act of both creation and destruction... Also as a form of true Black Magick. One that alters my subjective universe... And may alter yours.
Thus the cycle continues in part 5.
Cover art by Drahmarduk.
More news soon.

28/12/2024

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve III: Camelot in Flames" to be released on CD in early 2025 through Dark Adversary Productions!
The third part of this five part cycle is "Camelot in Flames".
Raw, Melancholic, Triumphant and majestic Black Metal.
This album starts with an ode to a great, conquering philosopher king, who cannot be bought and does not bend the knee, the archetype of a great leader that each individual has their own version of in their mind... and thus the decay of all great empires begins. For we all have our idealized version of civilization, our Camelot, and we are all on our own grail quest.
Although we are part of nature, we also have the ability to bend those very laws of nature, to create that which would never naturally occur. So from chaos, in our psyche, we dream of that idealized kingdom and try to bring it into reality. Yet sadly this will never align with others, no matter how beautiful the dream, Camelot will always end up in flames and the knife will always be plunged into your back while you are reaching to drink from that grail... An ambrosia that can never be drunk in this mortal coil.
The fall of an empire always comes long before the flames, we become too far removed from the natural way of existing that is paramount in this objective world, and the ultimate price of decadence is decay... And you know the piper must always be paid. Society fears that cost, yet can only blame itself.
And as the flames burn out in the ruined shell of a once great empire and time passes, a new empire will rise, built on the bones of its predecessor's forgotten demise. Only for the same story to cycle over again, for our primal instinct is one of war and every kingdom is our urn... For the ashes of idols we yearn.
Every empire is fed poisoned remedies from poisoned prophets, those who spin terrifying and tragic webs so we all fear our caskets, yet to fear death is to become a slave, so one must cast aside despair over that impending grave, for it is not the end when night falls over life. For now that grail is in reach, and a phoenix rises from the ashes.
Thus the cycle continues in part 4.
More news soon.

28/12/2024

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve II: The Natural Law is Tooth & Claw" to be released on CD in early 2025 through Dark Adversary Productions!
The second part of this five part cycle is "The Natural Law is Tooth & Claw".
Nature is cruel and unforgiving, it does not care for your feelings, desires, hopes or insecurities. It has an uncompromising harmony and whether humanity exists or doesn't means nothing to the old gods.
This album is feral-hearted, raw and majestic Black Metal, with acoustic passages and each season is reflected not only as a season of nature, but a season of mankind's existence within it.
This album is the death of cowering weak fragility.
The wolf tearing apart the innocent rabbit or the lamb, which is the cosmos reflected through an act of microcosmic bloodshed, thus this album is that wolf.
A reflection of the spirit of this natural world, bound by an ouroboros forever devouring... Are you the head or the tail? Will you survive or fall? There is also beauty reflected in this album, that lulls and lures you, but do not be fooled. The natural world is a world of war, and the natural law is tooth and claw...
And although most choose to be blind to this, the world of mankind and its empires and all its "kindness" and "humanity" is thinly veiled and still exists under that primal natural law, where the naked sword is still kingmaker or king breaker. Do not believe otherwise.
And no matter how it is disguised by the powers that loom over you, the sword is now held to your mind, the final and most important land for them to conquer.
Regardless, this caitiff species is now in ruin, we are in our winter, and every empire must fall.
Thus the cycle continues in part 3.
Cover art by Nekronikon!
More news soon.

27/12/2024

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve I: From Primordial Waters of Chaos" to be released on CD in early 2025 through Dark Adversary Productions!
The first part of this five part ouroboros cycle is "From Primordial Waters of Chaos".
Through timeless coagulation, an abandoned sleeping cosmos awakens to a new dawn, standing at the precipice between order and chaos, with the power of Will and the black flame of creation. These waters are from that which has surpassed the laws of nature as we know them, they are that which creates worlds, what came before the dawn.
This full length album explores the depths of the abyss, holding the keys to turn the locks of life, death and godhood... And to be the creating entity beyond the tides.
It is raw, atmospheric, melancholic and majestic Black Metal.
Yet to create, one must first understand one's own consciousness as an isolate being. And to do that you must be bound in flesh, grounded to the earth, and experience everything that is you and everything that is outside of yourself, through the lens of a sovereign entity in nature. Then you will be able to truly become those primordial waters.
Although your black flame exists in the fifth dimension and beyond, observing the observable universe, your flesh must adhere to the natural laws... Thus the cycle continues in part 2.
More news soon.

24/12/2024

Out Now!
ORDER HERE: https://darkadversary.bigcartel.com/

These releases are:
*Harvest / Drowning the Light - "Invoking a Star Shambler" CD limited to 200 copies.
*Nocturnal Deviancy / Drowning the Light - "Reawakened Truth from Shadow Realms of Melancholic Grandeur" CD limited to 200 copies.
*Drowning the Light - "Securing Your Future for Satan" limited to 150 copies.

Thank you to all those who pre-ordered and have been patient.
These will start shipping next week. My local post office is closed the rest of the week due to Xmas holidays, so they can't ship until then.
Also nothing can currently be mailed to Canada as i'm sure Canadian customers are aware due to the strike, as soon as that is over your orders will be shipped.

22/12/2024

Soon!

Drowning the Light - "Conquer or Serve" to be released in early 2025.
Five albums of pure darkness, melancholy & Setapophian Black Magick!

02/12/2024

The split between Nocturnal Deviancy & Drowning the Light - "Reawakened Truth from Shadow Realms of Melancholic Grandeur" is streaming in full on the Dark Adversary youtube channel:

Bands: Nocturnal Deviancy / Drowning the LightRelease: "Reawakened Truth from Shadow Realms of Melancholic Grandeur"Track list:1. Nocturnal Deviancy - Obsidi...

28/11/2024

A limited amount of older and sold out vinyl is up in the Dark Adversary Productions store.
ORDER HERE: https://darkadversary.bigcartel.com/

This includes the two newer Drowning the Light vinyl releases "Enslaved by the Cave..." and "Archaic Nocturnal..." (I always save around 10 copies incase of any issues, so there is roughly 7 of each of these left).
These will not be getting a repress (for at least a decade, if ever), so this will be the last chance to get these.
Also a few long sold vinyl like the 3 Eternum albums, the DTL "Of Celtic Blood..." Japanese edition, and a few other releases I had a copy or two of.

25/11/2024

Three new CDs are available for pre-order now!
ORDER HERE: https://darkadversary.bigcartel.com/

These releases are:
*Harvest / Drowning the Light - "Invoking a Star Shambler" CD limited to 200 copies.
*Nocturnal Deviancy / Drowning the Light - "Reawakened Truth from Shadow Realms of Melancholic Grandeur" CD limited to 200 copies.
*Drowning the Light - "Securing Your Future for Satan" limited to 150 copies.

25/11/2024

I am proud to announce that the first Drowning the Light demo from 2003 - "Securing Your Future for Satan" is currently in press and will be out soon on CD through Dark Adversary Productions!

This is the very first Drowning the Light demo, recorded in 2003 and originally limited to 3 copies. It has never been released publicly, nor was it ever intended to be, as the re-recorded versions of the songs from the second demo and found on "The Longing" compilation are of much better quality, but after 20+ years and countless fake versions online (it has never leaked as only 3 people own a copy - yet fools put up entirely different music and lie claiming it is this demo), it was time to embrace the primitive spark that ignited the flame that is DTL.
The audio on this CD was taken from one of the only tapes that exists, which itself had a lot of decay from the years as well as being poorly recorded in the first place, so there is some sound defects (a hiccup or two throughout), so it is not a flaw in the CD but the recording itself. This one is for the diehard fans who wish to have a glimpse into the past. This is not for everyone.
Limited to 150 copies.

There is more info on this release on the DTL page post.

This CD and the two split EP CDs go up for pre-order later today!

22/11/2024

I am proud to announce that the split between Harvest & Drowning the Light - "Invoking a Star Shambler" is currently in press and will be out soon on CD through Dark Adversary Productions!
This split EP of rotten, melancholic & Vampyric Black Metal invokes a Star Shambler from those forbidden cosmic gulfs.
Although both entities are from the same shadow, Harvest returns with a track of ice cold, vile, sinister and raw Black Metal after three years of silence, once again spreading its addictive poison.
Drowning the Light reflects the more melancholic yet majestic side of this shadow, synth laden and hypnotizing, raw yet atmospheric Black Metal.
The title of this split was inspired by the 1935 short story "The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch, and delves into other Vampyric entities that are said to lurk beyond the stars, hidden in the moonlight or crawling through the angles between dimensions, bloodthirsty and decaying, only emerging to take the life force of the living before receding back from whence they came.
Limited to 200 copies.
Cover art and borders by Vicranium!

21/11/2024

I am proud to announce that the split between Nocturnal Deviancy & Drowning the Light - "Reawakened Truth from Shadow Realms of Melancholic Grandeur" is currently in press and will be out soon on CD through Dark Adversary Productions!
This is a split EP of raw, melancholic yet majestic Black Metal that brings together these two underground entities in a sonic manifestation of grand darkness and the Black Flame!
Nocturnal Deviancy opens with a decrepit piano piece and then strikes with Black Metal fury, followed by Drowning the Light's signature Black Metal melancholy and a dreamlike dungeon synth outro.
Limited to 200 copies.
More news soon.

12/09/2024

The Possession of the Polar Shaman self titled album is now streaming in full on the Dark Adversary youtube channel:

Band: Possession of the Polar ShamanRelease: "Possession of the Polar Shaman"Track list:1. Ein Rute til Mubpienålmaj - 0:002. I Vildmarksnatten, Så Børjar Ja...