''Massive Conspiracy Against All Life'' is the fourth full-length album by

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-based one-man

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. There was much controversy over the release of this album, which was originally slated for a summer release in 2007. Supposedly Wrest tried to release the album under the Lurker of Chalice moniker via

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, and it was originally going to be titled ''Perverse Calculus''. But Moribund's lawyer's issued a

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order. This also affected and delayed the

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/ Leviathan split album which was to be released on

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in 2007. The

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version of ''Massive Conspiracy Against All Life'' was released on May 20, 2008, via

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. The LP was limited to 500 copies on black vinyl and 500 copies on red vinyl. This was the first Leviathan LP to feature acoustic drums as opposed to the electronic drums Wrest used on most of the band's prior releases. The album was inspired by the death of Wrest's girlfriend – the song "VI-XI-VI" refers to June 11, 2006, in Roman numerals, the date of her suicide.

Track listing

For unknown reasons, the pre-release album leak featured different track titles, despite containing exactly the same songs. (The CD-Text information of the released CD still refers to these alternate titles, and Wrest's Lurker of Chalice moniker instead of

.) The pre-release track listing was:

References

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