Secrets Of My Kingdom: Return To Dimensions Unknown (Cult Never Dies) - BOOK
BY MORTIIS
LABEL Cult Never Dies
RELEASE 9 March 2018
I have heard about this book since the early 90's so it should be fun and exciting to see what world Mortis can drag us into. I'm doing a book myself and I know it takes a hell of a lotta time to make it interesting,lasting & to always build a world to "keep" the reader and not loose him with boredom, so all my respect to MORTIIS for finally publishing this book, as I know it's a big & long process. I ,myselg think of a collection of short stories, nuff about me though, The Secrets Of My Kingdom will hopefully be reviewed by me and my fantastic co-worker IVO_GOYENS. I think that would be cool so one can get two peoples perceptions,fantasy and opinions on the long awaited book.
I can't tell if this will happen, but one of us will definately review it, but hey it's a book and I found out about it today and I'm not that guy who read a book in like 2-3 hours, I like to take my time and really dive into the whole shit. SO stay tuned for more and also music by
Mortiis...
MORE INFO & HOW TO ORDER!
UK based publisher
CULT NEVER DIES recently released the expanded edition of ‘
Secrets Of My Kingdom’, the book originally written by Norwegian visionary artist
MORTIIS and published in a highly limited form in 2001.
“
Once I got over my personal hang-ups about the Era 1 material, and
started reissuing portions of it, I felt that the time was right to
start work on a reissue of the ‘Secrets Of My Kingdom’ book. Cult Never
Dies had approached me about a reissue a couple of years ago I believe,
but I wasn’t quite ready at the time”, recalls the godfather of dungeon synth.
“
I had a couple of offers from labels/publishers to do this. At
first I stalled with everyone, because I wasn’t really ready personally,
to dig into this. When I finally came around, and figured the time was
right, I chose Dayal & Cult Never Dies for a few reasons. Mainly
because he already had a few books out that focused around the same
scene (more or less) that I ‘belonged’ to back in the early to mid 90’s,
so that made sense both in terms of his experience in publishing books
and also the Cult Never Dies ‘clout’, which I appreciated. I also liked
that Cult Never Dies is based in the UK which was a
good market for me at one point, and still is. Of course the fact that
Dayal also works as a journalist helps, but of course these are based on
the way my cynical marketing and business brain works”, enthuses
MORTIIS.
A collection of writings accompanied by illustrations from a number of
talents, this immersive work significantly fleshed out the universe
MORTIIS had drawn upon in his early releases and today changes hands for hundreds of dollars.
“
It was a pretty easy process dealing with Cult Never Dies,
as we pretty want the same thing with this, which is to retain the
spirit of the original release, but update it/add to it where needed,
and really just get it out there to everyone that weren´t around the
first time, weren´t able to buy it back then, and for all the people
that don’t want to dish out € 200 for an original copy today. When I
reached out to guys like Juha Vuorma and Mark Riddick, it couldn´t have
been easier. Those guys are very easy to deal with, and Mark even dug up
a couple of pieces from back in the 90´ies that hadn´t been used, and
he made a couple of new ones too, that fit in perfectly with the concept”.
Now considerably expanded,
‘Secrets Of My Kingdom; Return To Dimensions Unknown’ sees
this utterly unique work made available once more, this time with
previously unseen illustrations and text. The new cover artwork have
been made by
David Thiérrée, an amazing artist able to create symbolism and subtle hints.
“
We’ve collected additional artwork from one of original artists Mark Riddick, and new front cover artwork, inspired by the themes of the book, by David Thiérrée,
whom I also collaborated with for the reissue of my first 3 albums. He
recreated the artwork all of those with great success. There is a long
in-depth interview where I discuss and dissect those days of old when
the book was being written originally. There will be a special box set
version of the book, that will also include, among other cool things,
reproduced prints of selected artwork, some of which were originally
made in color, and we’re reproducing them in color for the special
edition. Until now they were only printed in black and white”.
Meanwhile extensive interviews with
MORTIIS himself explain the genesis and evolution of the
MORTIIS
concept. Elsewhere the immense impact upon the ‘dungeon synth’ movement
– a genre that is curiously at the height of its popularity today – is
also examined in detail.
The book has been released by
Cult Never Dies publishing, who have already issued a number of acclaimed titles on black / underground metal and art, including
Black Metal: Into The Abyss,
Ultra-Damaged (by ex-Mayhem vocalist Maniac) and the recent
Doom Metal Lexicanum.
Order the book now:
https://cultneverdies.myshopify.com/collections/all/products/new-pre-order-mortiis-secrets-of-my-kingdom-return-to-dimensions-unknown''''''''
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