Parasomnia: Pavor NocturnusWydawca Rune Serpent EuropaPremiera 2025-10-28USAKathodos, a new experimental ritual dark ambient band, will release its debut album “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” via Rune Serpent Europa on 28 October 2025. This release marks the first time the album will be widely available, as it was originally released digitally in the spring of 2024 on a now-defunct netlabel without any promotion. The CD will be a limited edition of 500 copies and will include a 4-page booklet.
“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is meant to be experienced as a sequence of strange dreams. It comprises a listening journey of confusing, dark, beautiful, scary, comical, twisted, psychotic, and bizarre dreams. The album takes the listener on a dark and sometimes terrifying journey of strange voices, bizarre sounds, beautiful moments, maddening architecture, and intricate instrumentation. It is highly unique, making use of hypnotizing drones, occult rituals, odd lyrics, and hidden meanings. Listeners will hear something new each time they play the album.
Kathodos, the man behind the project, conceptualised the band in 2019 as an "experiment in darkness". Having previously performed as a rock musician, he sought to create something darker. The album's atmosphere was conjured from the best fragments of his dreams and the worst fragments of his nightmares. The entire album was composed in the spring of 2021 after lying dormant for nearly two years. Following another period of latency, most of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in the spring of 2022. A difficult period in late 2022 delayed the project until 2023, when the rest of the album was finally recorded. Lavinia was recruited in late 2023 to provide soprano, spoken word vocals, and guitar on a few tracks. Kathodos also produced, mixed, and mastered the album in late 2023 and early 2024. After gaining a strong following from the few people who happened upon the initial release, Kathodos signed with Rune Serpent Europa in 2025 to reach a wider audience.
Kathodos is a studio-only project and does not perform live. A second album is currently in the works. The band has also appeared on two official compilations released by Rune Serpent Europa: "Laibach Tribut - Schlecht Und Ironisch", for which Kathodos covered the Laibach song "White Law" and Saturno Butto tribute “The Five Senses”, contributing the track "Death & Rebirth".
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“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” tracklist:
1. Phantom of the Throne Room
2. A Memory Dwindles…
3. …Window
4. The Dark Priests
5. Hanging Tree
6. Message Sent to Earth
Kathodos are:
Kathodos – all instrumentation, vocals, lyrics, sounds, composition, production, mixing and mastering
except:
Lavinia - soprano, spoken word and guitar
Kathodos, a new experimental ritual dark ambient band, will release its debut album “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” via Rune Serpent Europa on 28 October 2025. This release marks the first time the album will be widely available, as it was originally released digitally in the spring of 2024 on a now-defunct netlabel without any promotion. The CD will be a limited edition of 500 copies and will include a 4-page booklet.