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Season of Mist is proud to announce the soon re-release of SEPTICFLESH’s first five albums, namely:

- Mystic Places of Dawn
- ΕΣΟΠΤΡΟN (“Esoptron”)
- Ophidian Wheel
- A Fallen Temple
- Revolution DNA

Each reissue will come as a Digipak with brand new cover artwork designed by Seth Siro Anton and bonus material. A vinyl edition will also be released for all five albums. The first of the series, 1994’s “Mystic Places of Dawn”, has been scheduled for a January 25th release (January 22nd in North America).

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We all have gotten our asses kicked trying to buy the original pressings/CM reissues on Ebay, so I'd figure I'd lift our broken spirits by sharing this with my fellow collectors. Do you guys think Anton will keep the original artwork unlike the hideous CM repress for Mystic, or would you like to see a new coverart for a new era. This is some of the best news I've heard in a while, who plans on buying doubles!

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Fuck that, give me the original artwork.

Excellent! Will definately get the first 3 albums! The first three albums were some of my favourite extreme metal albums when I first got into the genre so would be excellent to own them finally

Cheers for posting this matey!

Yeah I don't see no reason to change the cover art.

What's the deal with bands changing the cover for reissues? It's the same across the board, whether it's a film or an album, people want the original artwork on the damn thing.

Cool. I'll have to keep an eye out for these.

Good news. I agree that they should keep the original artwork (and hopefully, the original sound too). I can only hope Mystic Places of Dawn gets a better cover than its previous reissue: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ ... f_dawn_f3/ hardly fitting, is it?

I ditched their cd's over 10 years ago...but i think i will buy "Mystic Places..." anew. In these days,where there's a flood of releases,most
of them mediocre,i start to appreciate the older stuff of some bands more than i did back in the day they were released. Especially with a
lot of oldschool deathmetal. The old B-C grade bands,which i ignored back then (early to mid nineties) in the flood of classics,sound a lot
better these days when you hear all that lame brutal death,goregrind,porngrind and what not all.

Mystic Places had great cover artwork. Why change that? As the label will release it as a digipack it is also impossible to put a single sheet with
the original artwork in front of it. Mmhh. I guess i'll take a look at the new artwork and if the bonus tracks are worthwile,otherwise i will buy the original on
a metalmarket or in Utrecht where there's one of the largest record fairs in the world,twice a year.

Yes! I'll be grabbing up all of these except Esoptron, the first pressing of which I found this year at a used place for ten bucks. I don't think whoever was selling it knew what he actually had, or else I reckon he would have gone straight to Ebay with it.

Well that is cus original artwork is always painted. And we love painted covers, I think that and the novalty of thinking we have something resembling an original press is why original art appeals to most people

That is, with the exception of Revolution DNA, that art is horrible.

I was wondering when these would get a reissue! I really enjoy the early material, but the prices put me off from grabbing it. I'll definitely get these.

maybe i'll finally have a chance to get my hand on the first three

Good stuff, I'll be sure to keep a lookout for them. Would love to get my hands on Ophidian Wheel especially.



Tits aren't fitting for a Septic Flesh cover? Since when?

A bit off-topic but SOM has also inked a deal to reissue Osmose's back catalogue on the US, thought it might be interesting for some of you.

This is great news except for the artwork. Though I fully understand it from the bands point of view.

THANK YOU.

Awesome news. I would prefer that the cover arts for the second, third, and fourth album remain the same. However, the debut's original artwork looks super choppy and Rev. looks awful with that dude sticking his tongue out.

Cool. Gonna see them tomorrow! Im gonna snag one of their albums along with some other stuff. Whats the best album from them to get?

You can't go wrong with Sumerian Daemons. That's got the best blend of the old era material. If you want an amalgamation of 1994-1999, then that's the album to hear. You can work your way backwards from there.

ok, cool! I will look for it on the merch table!

Great news, and a bit overdue if you ask me. There's something very unique about their older material, a very eerie dreamlike quality like the music is being played through a portal...or something. Would have been nice to keep the original art, but that's a minor complaint.

When I saw them at the Trois-Rivières Metalfest last saturday, they did not have any album for sale, sadly. I snagged one kickass shirt with the Conquerors of the World tour dates on the back though. Also, they were offering posters of the band as long as you tipped the merch dude. Grabbed one as well.

Also, they give one fucking hell of a show, I loved every second of it. They only played stuff from Communion and The Great Mass though, except for the last song, if I recall correctly. Spiros is an awesome frontman and if your crowd is as receptive as mine was, you're in for a memorable night.

I'll probably end up grabbing these since I haven't been able to find the originals for a reasonable price. I'd prefer original artwork, but in the end the music is the same. Best part of all for me is that I haven't heard anything from these albums. I own the last 3 albums they put out, that's it.

I know, right? I mean I can see why Broken Hope's Swamped In Gore original cover was ditched (seriously, the thing is retarded) into something that was more suitable.

Well, this is cool. I doubt they really need to change the artwork, but hey...I still need a real copy of AEsoptron myself...

I bet people will be surprised by Revolution DNA, if they haven't heard it. That's pretty much where I jumped ship, even though their new stuff is very different again and a lot heavier. I don't think the band ever recovered, nor do I really understand what they were trying to do with that album. But I love the first three a hell of a lot...

No love for A Fallen temple? Its like the more orchestrated parts of Mystic places of the dawn, except with mini operas like Underworld Act 1 and Underworld Act 2.

Wow, about time. It always mystified me that an active and relatively big band like them would have half a catalogue that was nearly impossible to find. A bit too late for me though, I already spent quite good deal of money getting the originals a few years ago. Though, knowing what Greek bands tend to do when they change their artwork, I don't regret it.



Revolution DNA. *shudder* One of those albums where a band pretty much literally ditches everything that makes them unique and interesting. Makes me wonder what on earth was going through their mind when recording it. They had to have realized at some point that what they were playing was godawful, right? I mean, how do you miss that? I still love the stuff they did afterwards, even if it lacks the mystique of their early material.



A Fallen Temple is awesome, but a bit uneven. I could have done without the mini-opera thingies, but the rerecorded ep and even the poppier gothic death metal songs are pretty damn cool, serving as a nice closer to their first era, showing both their beginning and ending sound of that period.

I've never seen any of their symphonic bits as being a detour of their original sound, Mystic places of the dawn had entire instrumentals as did Esoptron and Ophidian it was just apart of their overall aesthetic. In any event, I've never heard any death metal at all with maybe the exception of Phlebotomized come close to the level of atmosphere of the first four Septic flesh albums, its great material and one I don't see any band recreating anytime soon.

Yeah, that's true. Though you can call me a heretic, but that last instrumental on Mystic Places... goes on way the hell too long for my tastes.

There's one other old Greek band who I feel are vaguely comparable in atmosphere and that's Nightfall on their first three albums. Though they're not quite as good, they're worth tracking down, especially considering they were the first Greek band from that scene to put out a full-length.

Anton's artwork seems to be a hit or miss. Some of his stuff is cool. I like his artwork for Communion and The Great Mass. I don't like what he did for Draconian's last album. A problem is that he is overused. So many bands get him to do the artwork for their album. He has his own distinct style, and it just seems like a large percentage of new album covers look the same. That's because a lot of them are done by him.

Definite great news, I'm excited to grab these guys when they're out. And I don't really mind new covers, as long as they are good.

Like others have said, this shouldn't have taken this long! The first is one unique and atmospheric release that I still put on from time to time. Never fails to get me engrossed. I've since warmed up to the second album and will probably check that out too when these are put out.

Will it be as Septic Flesh or Septicflesh? That's one of the most pointless 'namechanges' I've seen. For that alone, I'd go for the originals (if I didn't already have them).

Pretty much the same as "Angel Corpse vs Angelcorpse". That doesn't disturbs me as much as the possibility of having the original cover art butchered into something like recent Nile/Moonspell/etc covers.

http://e-shop.season-of-mist.com/en/ite ... n/cd/33501

Everyone go ahead and poop themselves over the cover art because they changed it.

Anyway, I'm ecstatic to finally get a chance to own the old stuff at a fair price. This comes with the "Temple of the Lost Race" EP on the same disc.

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Well, to be expected it looks like it belongs in the booklet of The Great Mass. Gotta say though that it's the best cover just based on quality. Better than the tits of the previous re-issue and the amateur original.

I think it sucks. Basically has nothing to do with the sound of the album; should have just been saved for their next over-produced symphonic borefest rather than one of their actually good albums.

I think it sucks. Basically has nothing to do with the sound of the album; should have just been saved for their next over-produced symphonic borefest rather than one of their actually good albums (x2)

"limited to initial run only'

This album will be impossible to find again within ten years.

Do you mean this? "CD Digipak edition limited to the first pressing" It's standard policy on SOM to have the first print of some albums a limited digipak edition, but after that the subsequent pressings are on jewel case. It can be read either way though, but my guess is that they'd want to maximize their sales with having the album available.

Cover sucks balls really. Say what you will but the original covers of the first three have something eerie and cool about their simplicity. Anton just keeps putting more and more covers that look alike and have the same colour scheme and thematics. As much as I liked the guy's initial work it's just starting to be nauseating how unoriginal he can be. If you put this against the digibook of The Great Mass, the new Moonspell and Cipher System albums you'll notice that they could very much be bits of the same painting. This cover has no identity whatsoever and as much the tits cover was horrible this one is hardly any better!