Friday, November 6, 2009

Susurrus Inanis - The Shadowless Shining Demo 1997


This is another old demo of mine. The band was formed by myself and Daniel Breyer in 1997. This was right before and somewhat concurrent with the formation of Agalloch as well. We released this one demo in 1997, limited to 200 copies if I remember correctly, and then got signed to Cold Spring Records out of England. It was my first record contract and we were all very excited.

After that, Daniel's life in academics took precedence over music, and Sculptured, Nothing and Agalloch took precedence over Susurrus Inanis for me, and the project collapsed with only the one demo to our name.

Many Agalloch fans fell in love with Breyer's work on "Pale Folklore" and "Of Stone Wind, and Pillor" and have wanted to hear this demo. Few mp3s have surfaced, and no downloads of the entire demo have surfaced as far as I am aware. For those who loved Breyer's work in Agalloch, this demo will be a welcome treat as it further continues and refines that style. Yes, I am on the demo too, but my portions are amateur at best. A lack of ability and equipment at the time made my contributions more of a hindrance than anything.

Enjoy this rare look into the past of Agalloch.

Download HERE

11 comments:

  1. I've been searching for this for awhile; thank you for posting it. Lovely work.

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  2. I've got an original copy of this, but its nice to get the songs in mp3 format. My tape was starting to get a little worn out, heh. Much thanks, Jason.

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  3. Thank you indeed. I just unknowingly stumbled across this today, with no previous knowledge of its existence.

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  4. The tracks in the download are labelled as being track #7 through 13. Is this a mistake?

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  5. yes, 7-13 is a mistake. all songs are included.

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  6. any chance this could be uploaded again?

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  7. Thanks Jason!
    - David Knight (ye olde Vaingloria.com 'zine)

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  8. the true is that the demo and the post are the same, excellent both, I listened the demo and sound goods, so I gonna take the track list and lookinf for the entire list.

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  9. Wow, Jason. I remember this well. I still have this tape. You sent this to me ages ago back when we all used to hang out in the "Unholy Metal" chat room. Memories? Yeah. I also used to run Black Seed Productions, and was trying to get this into a CD pressing back then. My whole store got robbed and then I gave up... those were the days.

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  10. Could you upload this once again please?

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