AKHLYS – supplication – CD digipack

Driven by his ‘personal daemon’, Naas Alcameth (NIGHTBRINGER, BESTIA ARCANA, AORATOS) initiated AKHLYS in 2009 as a solo endeavour amid an ongoing fascination with ritualistic Dark Ambient music, and in tribute to the ancient Greek goddess of ‘death-mist’, daughter of chaos and bringer of misery from which the project takes its name.
Originally released 2009 on limited CD-R and last reissued in 2019, debut album « Supplication » is a tense and disturbing work of Horror Ambient. A trance-inducing, highly personal melding of spiritual and mythic nightmare via haunting synth, ominous sound design, ghostly vocalisations and percussive solemnity.
Now subject to a 2025 DMP CD/vinyl reissue – which includes reworked art by Chthonia – « Supplication » is crucial to the modern AKHLYS sound, its tortured dreamworld underpinning the occult Black Metal psychosis of subsequent records from the now fully-fledged band: 2015 modern classic « The Dreaming I », 2020’s unstoppable « Melinoë » and latest oneiric masterpiece, 2024’s « House of the Black Geminus ».