Style: Folk
Release date: 09.01.2009
Label: Cold Meat Industry

Aeterna is a new apocalyptic folk outfit from Germany, born in
2007. In the beginning it was intended to be the strictly
personal musical outlet for founding member Birthe Klementowski,
well-known from her artwork for Cold Meat Industry's Desiderii
Marginis, :Golgatha: and Dawn & Dusk Entwined, but the dynamics
between Alpha and Omega brought forth something new. The dark
and brooding atmospheres invoke the mood of decline and decay, a
direct resemblance to the artist's photography. The album 'New
Dawn' ultimately presents 11 songs about the decline and rebirth
of culture.
Aeterna does not serve ideological pattern but presents the
musical and visual output as an inspiration for the audience.
Death is always the beginning of a new circle. Out of
hopelessness arises a New Dawn. As the earth faces the end of
resources and the destruction of nature, the loss of spiritual
values and the total virtualisation of the all-day life, mankind
experiences a self made inferno. We have to turn and find new
waysà Aeterna is a prayer for these new ways. For new spiritual
values to ignite the fire of enlightenment once more. To create
something new out of the old roots. The Old Gods eventually may
not return, but the Eternal Principle is still there.
The music of Aeterna is based on ritualistic and shamanistic
structures, mainly acoustic sounds, and invoking chants û all
based on the dualistic principle of male and female energy û
Alpha & Omega. Aeterna is a trans-modern, neo-shamanistic,
animistic art project. A Luciferian hymnus to awake the New
Dawn...
Images and Artwork: Birthe Klementowski /
www.birthe-klementowski.de