Nov 24 — Ondergronds, | Antwerpen, Belgium

July 8 — Santarcangelo Festival | Santarcangelo, Italy July 27 — Terminus Festival | Calgary, Canada

T × R × P are honored to be included in such distinguished company, in this ravaging playlist curated by sister Zola Jesus for Roadburn.

»Fratricide! Fratricide! Fratricide!« On Kainskult — the follow-up proper to 2014’s much-praised Perfection & Permanence — we find Trepaneringsritualen at its most visceral; utterly devastating in its feral ferocity, and utterly demented in its elemental ecstasy. Kainskult will undoubtedly stand as a cornerstone album both in the T × R × P canon and in the industrial scene at large. In their animalistic frenzy and emotional intensity, these nine songs immediately envelop the listener and threaten or promise to drive you to the brink of madness. Kainskult keeps all the basic building blocks of Perfection & Permanence: the tribal drumming, the atavistic propulsion, the clattering metal percussion, and the abysmal growls. But somehow it reaches a new level of intensity, both sonically and lyrically. The latter read like a hallucinatory celebration of Kain, the Original Heresiarch. He is cast in the role of archetypal transgressor; the brother to all who wage war against the tyranny of Yaldabaoth. He raises the stone above His head, and with one willful strike slays His brother, the cowering slave. Through this one action, He draws the Mark upon his skin and sets in motion a series of events that will ultimately lead to the dissolution of the created worlds. »Ravage Me! Death & Ecstasy«

Trepaneringsritualen’s long out of print debut release: Deathward, To The Womb will finally see a proper reissue on CD, and limited edition 12” vinyl. An invocation, not so much of BABALON Herself, but of the tormented elemental of Frater T.O.P.A.N., and his fervent attempts to usher in the Æon of Horus. In the lyrics — based on the texts of Frater T.O.P.A.N. on the Babalon Working — the perilous flame that is BABLON is called upon to ravage creation. She is asked to scorch the earth clean for the coming cosmic renovation. The Eternal Virgin would spring from Her womb. From Her love, the new divine man would be born. 70 years after the Bablon Working was deemed successfully concluded, its utter failure is painfully apparent. »All love songs are of me«, She says. This is certainly true of the first five songs of Deathward, To The Womb. The final songs, All Hail The Black Flame, seem different altogether. In this guise, BABALON brings not solely love, but cataclysm; a holocaust brought upon the domain of Man. Manifested as the Black Flame, She reaches from a time before time, formless chaos, and rips apart the very fabric of the created worlds. Such is Her nature: two opposing principles; that of the nurturing mother, and that of the callous destroyer. »She is flame of life, the power of darkness – She destroys with a glance — She may take thy soul. She feeds upon the death of men« Appended to the six original songs is a specially commissioned 12 minutes and 57 seconds long ritual work entitled »I Remember When I Was God« (included as a download for the vinyl edition) and attributed to Teeraal Räum Pheynix. BABALON was summoned at Winter Solstice 2015 under the sign of Uruz, with assistance from Alone In The Hollow Garden, A.I.L oo Arktau Eos , Michael Idehall , KzR of Bölzer , Nÿland ii of Hadewych , and Æther . To destroy and to give life. We declare this ritual concluded and successful.