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VALIS

by Mastery

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    Hand numbered edition of 100 • Black Cassette
    Vexations 008

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    Handmade Laser Engraved Blood Stained Wooden Box - Includes numbered Mastery Valis Cassette with blood painted J-Card / Wooden Pin / Screen Printed Patch / Sticker / Extra unpainted J-card with Razor Blade •Edition of 19•
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VEXATIONS 008
A refined improvisation through MASTERY

All music recorded and performed in 2010 by DOMIGNOSTIKA
Mastered by Colin Marston
Art by Kivios

Mastery employs spontaneous composition to test the reservoir of the subconscious.
Hails to nothing

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released December 15, 2022

Originally released on Vinyl / Digital by The Flenser as FR43.

From The Flenser -
Valis is the first proper Mastery full-length and the most extreme record The Flenser has ever released. As its name and sigil demands, Mastery is a vessel to ascend the partial mind; one impulsive and chaotic, the other of collected illumination. A meditation unto the will subconscious. The solo black metal entity is the product of mastermind Ephemeral Domignostika (Spirit Possession, Ulthar, Pale Chalice, Pandiscordian Necrogenesis). Once a follower in the tradition of fellow Bay Area acts Leviathan, Crebain and Weakling, Mastery has evolved into something more. Valis is like a form of free jazz black metal—twisted and complex, with upwards of 100 riffs per song. Eschewing traditional songwriting and conceptual forms, Domignostika creates through spontaneous composition, cut ups and free performance. His extremely unique guitar style, polyrhythmic drum patterns and urgent vocal delivery bely the fact that Valis is the work of one person playing everything with the utmost intentionality. Mastery has previously released five extremely limited (and long sold out) demos since 2004, a collection on the tUMULt label in 2011 titled Barbaric Usurpation of the Hypereonic Black Metal Throne, and split albums with with Skullflower and Palace of Worms.

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