Hello all.

This message will be short, but full of impact.

We are back together after an extended hiatus. We all needed some time away from music to pursue other interests, which were very fulfilling. I wrote a couple novels, for instance. Now, we are going to get back to work. We have a lot of back material to clear out, so, inspired mightily by the recent announcement of the VENGEANCE boxed set, we are going to release the back catalog first while sketching out new albums.

And yes, that means the Grand Society Mk. II album is going to be coming out very soon. We'll discuss possibilities of the massive boxed set for those albums (as there are 3 triple-disc concept albums that we completed (OOC: The will be released as one album, but if you add up the time for each album, it comes out to over 140 minutes each, which means 3 discs)).

Sudan will likely drop the progressive elements for their next album and write a death metal album. We of Enoch have no real idea what we want to do. The Theosophical Society is also a bit up in the air. But... we're working.

- Langdon

Now, for Sudan fans, the news is a little bit less interesting. Just a little bit, though. When we all went on hiatus, they had been working on an album to be entitled The Maw of Satan, which would have been a concept album but not one with a story. As in all the songs would have a similar theme, but there would be no real story arc to their placement. They stopped during the sessions for the album because they, like us, just got far too tired. The problem is that the sessions produced 29 tracks and they almost certainly had an album within those waiting to be released. But, as luck would have it, they lost the notes on which tracks those were. So, they are releasing their own rarities compilation series, entitled VAPORS, of which the first three discs will be subtitled From the Maw of Satan. Pt. X of 3. The last disc will include a new song as a sort of apology for stopping just before the release of the album. As a result, however, it does sort of allow the audience to craft their own versions. And Daniel has said that, should the notes ever pop up, he will publish them and then hire someone to do official artwork for the album so that people who buy the three discs can assemble their own versions of it, like what happened with Enoch.

- Langdon

News is quite good, however, from the Pharaohs branch of Enoch. They had only 12 tracks sitting in the wings and Jon worked out ten tracks that would work well in an album together, so they collected those tapes from our vault and compiled what is their third studio album and sixth release altogether. It is titled Pharaohs! 3 - Voodoo and deals primarily in the sonic territory of New Orleans. In particular, it deals with their past: voodoo, slavery, racism, the Old South and the like. Jon's adoration of comic books snuck in as well, with the inclusion of a piece he wrote entitled "Bogman", which he wrote as sort of a theme piece for Swamp Thing. He wrote up some liner notes as well and they had an art piece selected as the cover, so it is almost like they didn't take a break at all in terms of the quality of this release.

In addition, Pharaohs fans know that every three albums, Pharaohs releases a boxed set of those albums. Jon already has finished working out plans for the boxed set and they are hard at work writing detailed liner notes to go with it, just like their previous boxed set. The package is done; just waiting for their writing so the books can go to print for packaging with them.

And, because work was so gentle for them and Daniel, Chris of Herr Fische and I tend to handle the vault work for the other groups, they even recorded two new pieces! The next album is, as a result of this, halfway done, but will not come out until a few more singles are released from Voodoo. The theme of their fourth album is Hinduism, which lends itself well to jazz in terms of sonics and, for those who know jazz, there is a history between the two. For those who don't know that, I highly recommend you check out some albums from Mahavishnu Orchestra or listen to them on YouTube.

Again, if the ease of getting out these albums after being gone for so long surprises you, thank Midnight/Mythic! I want to personally tell them in a public forum that I am eternally grateful for their understanding in letting us take a break for so long, their patience in handling us while we were on that break, and their enthusiasm and professionalism when we wanted to get back to work. If it weren't for them being with us so strongly, we might not have come back and, had it been in the past when we ran our own independent label for our releases, we definitely wouldn't have. There are no better bosses in this industry right now.

- Langdon