Ewigkeit

Ewigkeit is the musical project of English artist James Fogarty aka Mr. Fog from Brighton. Having released five studio albums, on 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace but revived it in 2012.

Band history

The purpose of this one-man project was to try and forge a unique musical sound. After the release of the first album, ''Battle Furies'' on a short-lived Neat Records subsidiary called Eldethorn, Fogarty gave his entire music collection away to an Oxfam charity shop so that he would be free of influences creating his next work. ''Starscape'' was received well by the extreme music press, but label folded and the project was put on hiatus. During the missing years, Ewigkeit concentrated on his other black metal project The Meads of Asphodel and his collaboration with Jimmy Cauty on the multi-media project Blacksmoke. In 2003 ''Land of Fog'', was eventually released on Metal Age Productions. Fogarty himself regarded this as the first Ewigkeit album, and it gained him enough attention to get his project signed to Earache Records, on which ''Radio Ixtlan'' was released in 2004, to considerable acclaim.

Released in 2005, ''Conspiritus'' (mixed by John Fryer), a conceptual album examining conspiracy theories, has been hailed by many as "marking a maturation of Ewigkeit's eclectic sound". Also in 2005, a music video was made in collaboration with film-maker Anthony Gates for the track "Its Not Reality". Fogarty's work on the album took over 14 months, with extensive research into the world of conspiracy and its many associated theories. It is to date the most researched music album ever created on this subject - crowned by the fact that along with the orthodox methods of music website / magazine promotion and distribution, it is also sold through the website of conspiracy researcher David Icke.

In 2006, Ewigkeit made a live video recording entitled ''Ewigkeit - Live From A Bunker'', which displayed the project in a live setting acting as a free "online" gig - the 25 minute set (filmed in a Nuclear Bunker in the vicinity of Brighton, England) was uploaded to Google video. Also recorded was a free download MP3 EP, ''Return to the Land of Fog''.

In December 2006, Fogerty burned all his recording contracts. All previous Ewigkeit material was then made available at Deathtomusic.com. In January 2007, Death to Music Productions gave away a remastered and superior version of ''Battle Furies''. In March 2007, ''Starscape'' was available free, with the intention that all material will be fully released online.

In March 2007, James Fogarty abandoned the Ewigkeit project, stating in the press-release, "... etalis mostly out-of-date, out-of-touch with its origins and (worst of all) conservative in the extreme..."

An online link to Fogerty's new project, The Bombs of Enduring Freedom, was created with the debut self-titled album released in December 2007, and an EP ''Kalashikovs and Car Bombs'', followed in 2008. During this time, he also produced the Old Forest album ''Tales of the Sussex Weald''.

In 2012 Ewigkeit was reactivated, with a black metal sound, and two more studio albums were released: ''Back to Beyond'' in August 2012, and ''Cosmic Man'' (July 2017). In 2017, the band fully re-recorded its 1997 album, ''Battle Furies'', and re-released it as ''Battle Furies 2.017'', on CD via Death to Music Productions, and on vinyl via Beverina Productions and Casus Belli Musica. A new EP, ''Depopulate'', was released on 23 January 2021.

Etymology

Ewigkeit was the name given to this music project when Fogerty found the word in the English Concise Oxford Dictionary. A little known "imported" word, hardly used in the English language at all, Ewigkeit means 'eternity' in German. He has been known in interviews to say that in retrospect, it was the worst name he could have chosen.

Discography

* ''Faery Lands Forlorn'' demo (1995, self-released)
* ''Beyond Realms Unknown'' demo (1996, self-released)
* ''Dwellers on the Threshold'' demo (1996, self-released / Death to Music Productions)
* ''Battle Furies'' (1997, Eldethorn / Death to Music Productions)
* ''Starscape'' (1999, Eldethorn)
* ''Music for the New Millenium'' demo (2000, self-released)
* ''Land of Fog'' (2003, Metal Age Productions / CD-Maximum)
* ''Radio Ixtlan'' (2004, Earache Records / Soyuz Music)
* ''Conspiritus'' (2005, Earache Records / Союз)
* ''Return to the Land of Fog'' (2006, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Lost Yet Not Forgotten'' (2008, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Back to Beyond'' (2013, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Cosmic Man'' (2017, Svart Records)
* ''Battle Furies 2.017'' (2017, Death to Music Productions / Beverina Productions / Casus Belli Musica)
* ''Starscape 2.019'' (2019, Death to Music Productions)
* ''DISClose'' (2019, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Declassified'' (2019, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Land of Fog (20/20 Re-Vision)'' (2020, Death to Music Productions)
* ''Depopulate'' (2021, Mospharic)

Ewigkeit has appeared on various compilation albums, notably:
*''Metal Hammer'' covermount ''Earache Sampler'' CD (2004)
*''Black Light Magazine'' CD sampler
*''No Holy Additives vol. 2,3 & 4''
*''Metal Age Productions'' sampler CD
*''Britannia Infernus''
*''Metal: A Headbangers Companion''

References

External links

Earache Records

Myspace Page

The Bombs of Enduring Freedom

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Beverina Productions artists
British experimental musical groups
Casus Belli Musica artists
Earache Records artists
English black metal musical groups
Music and politics
Musical groups established in 1995
Neat Records artists