Austria's ALLERSEELEN is the brainchild of one man... Kadmon. His desire to experiment with sounds and their psychological effects results in ALLERSEELEN... a blend of harsh trance industrial music topically dealing with esoteric aspects of European culture. Kadmon is also the writer/publisher of the excellent AHNSTERN (formerly AORTA) journal. Once again his writings throughout these publications deal with European tradition and esoteric occulture. All in all, quite an interesting individual. I asked Kadmon to elaborate upon a few separate topics close to him...

Gotos=Kalanda:

Gotos=Kalanda is the realization of a dream I have worked on for several years. In a book about the Austrian ariosophist and poet Karl Maria Wiligut who was very much into runes and northern mythology I discovered twelve poems for each month of the year, and I decided to write twelve songs for these lyrics. I tried to incorporate in these industrial recordings elements of mediaeval as well as march music to create a blend of ancient and contemporary culture. The songs of this cycle are ritual and industrial at the same time, mystical and martial. The poems were written in 1937, I wanted to make audible the atmosphere of this year. I translated other writings by Karl Maria Wiligut too, it is possible that Michael Moynihan will publish a bilingual edition of these texts about runes and figures. The CD Gotos=Kalanda was released in March 1995 on Aorta, probably it will be released in the United States by Michael's label Storm too.

Cruor:

Cruor was published in summer 1994. It features the most powerful works which I recorded in the years 1989-1993. Some of them were already published on former cassette editions. The cover shows a subterranean Mithras sanctuary which I visited in Rome in Spring 1994. All the songs deal with aspects of ancient European cultures from Scandinavia to Malta, from the Basque Provinces to the Baltics. These traditions are the focus of my music and my writings, I consider my art as a sacred science, a sacred war to advance and promote this spiritual underground of Europa which was almost destroyed by thousands of Holocausts commanded by Christianity against all native religions of Europe. These Holocausts still exist today in order of internationalism and plutocracy, who are preferring consumers without any faith, without any spiritual and material hold. Their politics is uprooting.

Autdaruta:

Autdaruta was a cassette which I recorded in 1989. In a book about shamanism I read about the Greenlandish shaman Autdaruta who was a visionary and story teller. It is said that he had killed in his youth several people but later discovered mystical abilities. Unfortunately he became a Christian and got the Danish name Christian Poulsen. After his conversion he lost his shamanic power. Knud Rasmussen wrote down many of his narrations, he described his meeting with Autdaruta in his book "The People of the Polar North". I hope to be able to do one day some research on him in Denmark.

Mithras:

I am fascinated by the Mithras culture which existed in almost all parts of the Roman empire. It seems to see a renaissance. Today I know several musicians, writers, scientists who are into this spiritual philosophy which includes mystical and martial psychodramas of initiation. I have visited many subterranean temples and caves which were consecrated to Mithras in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy and there are still many sanctuaries which I still have to see in Romania, former Yugoslavia, even in Syria and Tunisia. In the centre of the Mithraic liturgy was the sacrifice of a bull and a blood baptism. Some months ago I started recordings for a Mithras symphony which I want to release in 1996. It will consist of seven parts as there were seven degrees of infiltration in Mithraism which were dedicated to the seven planets.

The idea of "blood magic", specifically in its Teutonic forms:

I am fascinated by the symbolism of blood. That is the reason why I used the names Aorta and Cruor for my releases, that's why I wrote about blood in various issues of Aorta. It was important in many pagan mysteries, for example in the Kybele and Mithras cultures. I am sure that this blood mysticism, blood baptism is important too in many legends and tales of dragon fights in German and Christian mythology. The symbolism of the dragon whose blood makes the hero invulnerable when he dares to take a bath in it seems to refer to an ancient initiation. I studied the symbolism of dragons and serpents and I am certain that these animals were called evil to hide their sacredness. Blood had an essential part in Nordic magic as it was used to colour runes that were carved in wood or horn or metal. The sacrificed blood symbolized the sincerity, the honesty of the act. I wrote an Aorta issue about the Blutleuchte, the blood lamp, a mystical cult in Munich founded around 1900 by two Germans who glorifed the spiritual quality of blood. Blood was for them a symbol of the pagan antiquity as opposed to the pale modern world.

Black Metal, its seriousness and occultic roots:

Black Metal is an electric Werwolfromantik. I am only interested in its connection to ancient European cultures, especially Nordic mythology or if it is a testimony of a martial attitude concerning Christianity and the modern consumer culture. There are some groups which I like very much. I like doom, long works which appear to me almost like psychedelic soundtracks, Wagnerian symphonies, elegies. I am fascinated by its violence and dark expressionism as it is an attack on the hypocritical, sentimental songs of love and sorrow of popular culture. That is also the reason why I used to listen very much to industrial music and why my music is that violent and dark too. I read some books about the berserks and the wild hunt, about its mythology and reality in German folklore. In a book about Norwegian customs during the winter solstice days I found out some striking parallels between the Oskorei, the wild hunt in Norway which was performed by the male youth of a village which was disguised as a demonic group a kind of ritual performance and psychoterror. The participents were allowed to make noise in the nights, to be violent, they were even allowed to destroy. They also had to dissemble their voices...the villagers should not know who was hidden behind the masks, the furs, the demonic camoflague. I wrote about all these connections in Aorta 20 about the Oskorei. For this issue I also made an interview with Varg Vikernes in which almost all the questions and answers deal with the spiritual underground of Nordic mythology and Varg's former group Burzum.

Aorta:

Aorta is the name of my publication. Up to now I released twenty issues. All of them are dedicated to spiritual, occultural themes, personalities, places. Aorta is some kind of background to the psychoacoustic, technosophic works of Allerseelen. It should be a spiritual nourishment for martial souls in a decadent and corrupt society. Its pagan spirituality should be a hold in an atheistic or monotheistic world.

Grail:

The Grail is an essential Indo-European symbol. Some are considering it merely as an immaterial symbol, others are searching for its physical shape. The Italian philosopher Julius Evola wrote a book about the Grail in which he connected the Grail myth to the myth of the Empire in the medieval worlds which was opposed to the papal hegemony. There are several places in Europe which claim to have the Grail. I saw photographs of a green chalice in Italy, a red chalice in France, a blue chalice in Spain which all are in some connection to the Grail. There is also a huge white chalice in Vienna in the Schatzkammer, close to the Spear of Destiny. I am doing at the moment researches on possible connections between the Grail and Mithraism as I discovered on many artworks from Mithraism vessels or chalices filled with bloods and/or surrounded by a serpent. Its symbolism of blood, of health, eternal life is obviously very close to that of the Grail. As the Grail is also important in Christianity, it is possible that this symbol was stolen by the Christians from the Mithras culture... If there is a real Grail it maybe is a meteorite...meteors were worshipped in the Antiquity by many solar cultures and Magna Mater traditions. This idea of a meteor as Grail could also refer to the Luciferian myth that the Grail is a stone which fell out of the crown of Lucifer...sometimes the planet Venus is called Lucifer...

Allerseelen as music:

In my music I am working very much with noises, sounds. I am using them as symbols to represent and express certain ideas. My music is a psychoacoustic symbolism, it should be a sacred science incorporating mythological and psychological aspects.