Please note that the music featured herein is between six and ten years old. Current material will be posted as it becomes available. A debut full-length release is presently being composed.
Please also observe our sister project, EQUIMANTHORN, featuring members of ABSU, MELECHESH, ZEMIAL, and YAMATU. Our latest album, "Exalted are the 7 Throne Bearers," is available from Displeased Records.
Please also observe our additional project, HEXENTANZ, featuring members of BLACK FUNERAL and YAMATU. HEXENTANZ composes necromantic ritual music based upon medieval witchcraft. Our debut CD, "Nekrocrafte," is available on The Fossil Dungeon.
BACKGROUND:
YAMATU is the chronicle of an immortal being, utilizing its vessel as a messenger of apocalyptic foresight to humans and of hope and awareness to beings owning immortal potential. It is for this reason that YAMATU is understood by some and misperceived by others.
The messages and chronicles of YAMATU are expressed in a medium that might be described as "severe occult metal." However, the expression of YAMATU aims to reach beyond a culture or genre. This becomes apparent when YAMATU is perceived in its breadth of textual, artistic, and musical eccentricity.
The public genesis of YAMATU, in 1993, established the project as an early forerunner to the American black metal movement and has thus been heralded as a "cult" formation, yet obscure and still little known. A lack of publicity was both intentional and necessary at that particular juncture in time. YAMATU has therefore only presented several limited demonstration cassettes, and a limited edition CDR/Book showcasing its past.
In 2004, a limited edition CD version of YAMATU's past was chronicled in only 500 copies. The future anticipates a new musical chapter to continue the purpose of YAMATU's expression. Alchemical in nature, YAMATU utlizes the services of reason, magic, and the Ancient Ones to realize and acknowledge the archaic path upon which it has evolved.
The Ancient Path and Laws of Magic are now open to the public (see above and note the alchemical Emerald Tablet).
I have added 2 more songs to my music project, Yulannu. Since I consider Hexendanz as one of my influences, I thought you might be interested to hear Yulannu.
..Turn to me with your whole heart and do not despise me because I am black and dark, for the sun has burned me so, and the black depths have covered my face... Aurora consurgens
Like black wings of apostate angels riffs sweep motion of the song into a gradual shifting of melodic potential between points, a fog of distortion melding melody and harmonization into enduring tones capturing space with their presence of motion to filter future sounds through their structure. Inventive and often playful in melody, borrowing scales and notions of harmony from older cultures, these songs each create the basis of a mood in introductory material and then develop it like a cinema noire, with a darkly foregone conclusion played out in anticlimax amid the subsidiary chaos of its genesis. Baroque in anticipation of shadow and time, ritual cadences emerge throughout song tempo fluctuations as inducted accompaniment.
Excerpt from review of Shurpu Asaru here: http://www.anus.com/metal/yamatu/
A l'occasion de la sortie imminente de son Album, Azziard sera en concert à Paris le 16 Mars 2008. Venez découvrir en live les nouveaux titres issus de l'album. Préparez vous a l'assault.
