deathrashed: Iniquity - Serenadium (1996)

Information

Artist – Iniquity

Album – Serenadium

Label – Diehard Music

Released – June 13th, 1996

Type – Full-length

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Notes

Iniquity's Serenadium was released on 13 June 1996 through Diehard Music as the Danish band's debut full-length. The core lineup consisted of Brian Petrowsky (vocals, rhythm guitar), Lars Friis (lead guitar, backing vocals), Thomas "Gnist" Christensen (bass), and Jacob Olsen (drums), with guest contributions from Cathrine Jensen (keyboards) and Ankie Toet (cello). The album was engineered, mixed and produced by Jan Borsing, while the band co-produced the sessions. Jacob Olsen completed the recording before leaving the band, with Jesper Frost joining prior to the album's release.

Recording and mixing took place at Borsing Recording in Denmark over a twelve-day period between July 1995 and January 1996. Digital editing and mastering were completed at Backstage Studio, Denmark. The production emphasizes a dense, low-tuned guitar tone with highly articulated riffing, rapid rhythmic changes, frequent tempo shifts, and layered melodic textures provided by keyboards and cello without reducing the album's aggressive character. Although rooted in mid-1990s technical death metal, the record incorporates doom-influenced pacing, dissonant harmonies, and intricate arrangements that distinguish it from more straightforward brutal death metal releases of the era. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

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Jacob Olsen did the drums on the recording, and then quit the band. Jesper Frost joined just before it was released and thats why his picture is in the booklet.
At least one song (Son of Cosmos) was written by Mads Haarløv who had already been part of the band during the demo era, before rejoining in 1998.

Recording

Recorded and mixed at Borsing Recording, Denmark in 12 days between July 1995 and January 1996.
Co-Produced by Iniquity.
Digital editing & mastering at Backstage Studio, Denmark.

Identifiers

Barcode: 5709830950039
Matrix / Runout: Sonopress R-0775/ RRS953 A
ASIN: B000024B4A
Label Code: LC 3384
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L030
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0702

Tracklist

1. Tranquil Seizure – 06:20 >

Celestial Journey,
Intercession of spheres
Interstellar release
The cosmic reappears
Drift among stars,
Flow vainly into black
Tranquil body seizures
But mentally relaxed

Shedding of worries
Mind quest no fear
With gravity behind me
In rapture I sear
Reaching out gently to touch and contrast
But deceived by this contour of images so vast

With gravity behind me
And destiny in hand

With gravity behind me
And destiny in hand
My body slithers paralyzed
Into emptiness

2. Prophecy of the Dying Watcher – 04:26

3. Serenadium – 04:42 >

Lethal injection in the skull
Tranquil fluid enters the brain
Incision made with surgical precision
Plastic tube inserted in the vain

Incurable chronic disorder
Total paralysation lurking ahead
Stiffening of limbs, blood runs cold
Psychic molestation

Serenade of the death-less
You will slowly transpire
Serenadium of the death-less
Painful submission to cancer

Your only perception is the pain
Of your body that slowly corrodes
The only thing left that is real to you
Is the menacing torment that is devouring you

4. Spectral Scent – 06:25 >

Injecting the drug
Awaiting it's effect
Sending back the mind
Into the abyss of ages

Not knowing of the peril
Await there souls beyond
There's a hideous price to pay
For knowing the beginning

Blush protoplasmic icon
Shows the presence of them
Called upon by curious mortals
Seeking knowledge of the ancient past

Standing on the shores
Beyond time and space
Escaping through the aeons
Seeking back to presence

Scented through timeless ages
Approaching through geometrical gates
Infiltrating healthy dimension
To feast on the life therein

5. (Intro) Mockery Retained to Obturate – 04:28

6. Encysted and Dormant – 05:48 >

Entering the blood flow
Convention invisible
Causing a rapid terminal infection
Atrocities deformation of the bodily system
Alien spores flowing unbound
Beneath the smoldering flesh

Growing immensely inside
Converting the living tissue
Into rubbery decomposium matter

Spreading the slender filaments
Through the circulary system
The transformation immediate
Limbs turn to fungus flesh

Once encysted and dormant
The spores survive for centuries

Cataclysmic hallucinations
Marks the beginning
Encysted and dormant

7. Son of Cosmos – 03:38 >

In the center of the universe
In the midst of oblivion
Is where the seat of power is found
Soaked by unspeakable madness

Deity beyond description
Abhorrence absolute
Intense madness it is
Of what I dare not speak

Older than the void
Son of the cosmos
He will still remain
Aeons after our time

A torturous seed implanted in me
Embedded in my strain of thoughts
Enlightened by my killing tendency

Violence, a dominating supremacy

8. Retorn – 05:35 >

I am one of the flock
Like them, I lie dreaming
Clenching my rose of blackness.
Dwelling in sunken valoorni

Help me out of this war that keeps haunting me

Laugh at me, mock me, Confine your banished mind
Tempt his way nadve web of frustrations in you

It was the darkness of my youth
When I came upon the man who warp my mind astray
He taught me ways of seeing
Into other spheres of reality
Where no mind saves the insane
Can fathom what it beholds

The man in black
Teachers of the master's art
Messenger from the outer limits
Of indefinable time and space

Total length: 41:22