Korpses Katatonik's first release was on the legendary Nekrophile Rekords owned by Zoe DeWItt.
Titles on the album were: shatok, schmertzlabor, enzephallik mortuor,
nekom, kcok transzlant, kaltfleisch corporor, skarzisko, okzipital
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The terminology of psychopathological disorders was used by Korpses
Katatonik in a subversive way for its own poetic value and many of the
rare vocals and track titles were taken from writings of patients of
Viennas famous psychiatrist hospital in Maria Gugging (dissolved in
2007).
The title skarzisko refers to a national socialist concentration camp in the polish town Skarżysko-Kamienna.
The upcoming influence of occultism within the postindustrial
underground of the 1980s is finally reflected in the last track of
Korpses Katatonik, Choronzon, which was published on the Nekrophile
cassette compilation The Beast 666.
This track, which refers to a ritual performed by Aleister Crowley and
Victor Neuburg in Sahara desert in 1909, anticipates the strong occult
implications of Zoe DeWitt's musical follow-up project Zero Kama.
Recorded in 1982 by Michael Zoe Dewitt (synth, guitar, voice, tape
loops) and mixed at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics
at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Wiener
Konzerthaus studios).
Remastered by Zoe Dewitt in 2022.
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