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Massive Conspiracy Against All Life 
Studio album by Leviathan Released 24 March 2008 Genre Black metal, dark ambient Length 62:16 Label Moribund Cult Leviathan chronology The Blind Wound
(2006)Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
(2008)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Pitchfork Media (8/10)[1] Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is the third full-length album by San Francisco-based one-man black metal band Leviathan.
There was much controversy over the release of this album, which was originally slated for a summer release in 2007. Supposedly Wrest tried to release the album under the Lurker of Chalice moniker via Blake Judd's Battle Kommand Records. But Moribund's lawyer's issued a cease and desist order. This also affected and delayed the Nachtmystium / Leviathan split album which was to be released on Southern Lord Records in 2007.
The vinyl version of Massive Conspiracy Against All Life was released on May 20, 2008 via Moribund Records. The LP was limited to 500 copies on black vinyl and 500 copies on red vinyl.
This was the first Leviathan LP to feature acoustic drums as opposed to the electronic drums Wrest used on most of the band's prior releases.
Track listing
- "Vesture Dipped in the Blood of Morning" - 5:22
- "Merging With Sword, Onto Them" - 10:58
- "Made as the Stale Wine of Wrath" - 8:44
- "VI-XI-VI" - 7:09
- "(Vinyl Bonus Track)-Perverse Calculus 7:17
- "Receive the World" - 7:48
- "Vulgar Asceticism" - 9:20
- "Noisome Ash Crown" - 12:55
For unknown reasons, the pre-release album leak featured different track titles, despite containing exactly the same songs. (The CD-Text information of the released CD still refers to these alternate titles, and Wrest's Lurker of Chalice moniker instead of Leviathan.) The pre-release track listing was:
- "Sacred Scars" - 5:22
- "Seamless Garment as the Morning" - 10:58
- "Last Breath of Expiation" - 8:44
- "6116" - 7:09
- "Phosphoros" - 7:48
- "Flagellum Raised to the Sky" - 9:20
- "Sanies Obnuntio" - 12:55
References
- ^ Lee, Cosmo. Massive Conspiracy Against All Life / Lurker of Chalice review pitchforkmedia.com. 2008-06-02. Retrieved on 2011-08-19
Wrest Studio albums/EPs The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (2003) · Tentacles of Whorror (2004) · The Speed of Darkness (2006) · The Blind Wound (2006) · Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (2008)Compilations Verräter (2002) · Demos Two Thousand (2005) · A Silhouette in Splinters (2005) · Howl Mockery at the Cross (2005)Split releases Live in Eternal Sin / The Speed of Darkness (Split with Iuvenes) (2003) · Leviathan & Crebain (2004) · Leviathan & Xasthur (2004) · Portrait in Scars (Split with Blackdeath) (2005) · Leviathan & Sapthuran (2006)Demos Three (1998) · Time End (1998) · MisanthropicNecroBlasphemy (2000) · Shadows of No Light (2000) · Slaveship (Seven) (2000) · Video Brolo (Eight) (2000) · Inclement Derision (Nine) (2001) · Ten (2001) · Intolerance (Eleven) (2001) · Howl Mockery at the Cross (2001) · Sacrifice Love at the Altar of War (2001) · White Devil, Black Metal (2002) · XV (2002) ·
The 10th Sub Level of Suicide (2002)Categories:- Leviathan albums
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