The Barrens

about this album

"Gentlemen adventurers Patrick Bruss & Brynjar Helgetun embarked on an investigative journey into the fetid, abandoned remains of the Crypts of Lieberkuhn where they claim they channeled & recorded a Pulp Horror Metal album using "...strange & cursed equipment that was alive." Three years later they emerged with these cylinders. Occult investigator Luther Heggs has discredited their claims, but the strange nature of the recordings, the monster voices, melodies, & echoed curses contained therein remain largely unexplained. Here for the first time all materials have been made available to the curious public." CRYPTICUS is: Patrick Bruss - guitar/bass/vox/synth Brynjar Helgetun - drums Composed, mixed, & mastered by Patrick Bruss at The Filth Chamber, Denver, CO: crypticult@gmail.com Guest solos on "Rogues In the Haunt of Horrors" & "Grand Guignol Cabaret" by Justin Lascelle of AXESLASHER. Art by Derek Waugh: waughtron666@yahoo.com All lyrics by Bruss except "Song of a Mad Minstrel" which quotes from the poem by Robert E. Howard. CRYPTICUS uses: Cockos, Converse, Dank, Diamondback, ESP, Line6, New Belgium, Paiste, Pearl, Punk Stuff, Shure, Sonor, Tortex, TRVE, & Voxengo. No pitch-shifting vocal effects used in this performance. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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