Ewigkeit is the musical project of English artist James Fogarty aka Mr. Fog from

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. 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

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subsidiary called Eldethorn, Fogarty gave his entire music collection away to an

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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

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, 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

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was made in collaboration with film-maker Anthony Gates for the track "Its Not Reality". 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

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in the vicinity of Brighton, England) was uploaded to

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. Also recorded was a free download

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EP, ''Return to the Land of Fog''. In December 2006, Fogerty burned all his

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s. 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, "...

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is 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). A new EP, ''Depopulate'', will be released on January, 23, 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

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. He has been known in interviews to say that in retrospect, it was the worst name he could have chosen.

Discography

* ''Dwellers On The Threshold'' (

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), 1996 (Self-released) * ''Battle Furies'', 1997 (Eldethorn) * ''Starscape'', 1999 (Eldethorn) * ''Land Of Fog'', 2003 (Metal Age Productions) * '' Radio Ixtlan'', 2004 (Earache) * '' Conspiritus'', 2005 (Earache) * ''Back to Beyond'', 2013 (Death to Music Productions) * ''Cosmic Man'', 2017 (Svart) * ''Battle Furies 2.017'', 2017 (Death to Music Productions) * ''DISClose'', 2019 (Death to Music Productions) Ewigkeit has appeared on various

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s, 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ewigkeit English black metal musical groups Music and politics British experimental musical groups Earache Records artists Musical groups established in 1995