The latter name referred to a celestial deity he read about in a book on the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería. Conner explained that he found the former name in a Necronomicon paperback and believed that it referred to 'a demoness who kills people in their sleep'. The name 'Xasthur' is a combination of ' Hastur' and 'Xenaoth'. The first album with this new style was entitled Subject to Change, released in 2016. However, he began using the name once again in 2015 to instead perform acoustic neofolk music. Conner formed Xasthur in 1995 and released eight studio albums of black metal by 2010, when he announced the end of the project. Xasthur ( / ˈ z æ s t ər/) is the project of American musician Scott 'Malefic' Conner. 250 on cassette, vinyl record available at Appalachian Noise Records.Profane, Blood Fire Death, Bestial Onslaught, Moribund, Total Holocaust, Profound Lore, Battle Kommand, Autopsy Kitchen, Southern Lord, Hydra Head, Turanian Honour, Avantgarde Music, Disharmonic Variations DIGITAL NOT AVAILABLE ON DAY OF PURCHASE. The overall feel of the record is akin to waking up in an asylum with no memory of arriving it is disconcerting at times, unnerving at others, but occasionally tricks the listener with subtle reprieves from the gloom only to be pulled back under all over again. Both men titans of black metal, each in their own right living pillars of dark music in America, have distilled their creative methods into this innovative approach to dark synth music.

'The Hallucination Tunnels' pairs Xasthur's unmistakable gift for macabre, discomforting soundscapes with the melody-writing and structural genius of Casket of Dreams. This record is an homage to the slow, downward spiral of man into chaos-the troubled mind's plea for the relief of permanent silence death. For the first time ever, Xasthur and Casket of Dreams have paired up to produce this 40-minute crawl through haunted and discordant corridors.

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