... the sound of atavistic journeying to the depths of the Worldsoul. Fires burn, drums are beaten, barbarous names of evokation are intoned. Layer upon layer of psychedelic blackness rise from their burial mounds. Shadows of ancient rituals are perceived through the haze; blood flows, the last owl calls before the dawn. The cycle is begun anew.

Sacrificial Totem's "HURQALYA" CD was recorded live at the 2004 Autonomous Mutant Festival, in the forest around Mt. Shasta. The album is a hyperboreal blast of blackned textures, fusing disparate elements from several esoteric sources into a singular and bleak vision. An epic expedition into the mystical North through hypnotic and ritualized sonic katharsis.

4 tracks, 80 minutes.

Handmade in an edition of 3 X 33, black-on-black CD and inserts within a silkscreened heavy black stock fold.

Available in the Katabatik Katalog.

"SACRIFICIAL TOTEM is a potent purveyor of True Northwest Black Ambient and intense shamanic performance inspired by ancient spiritual traditions..." (-from Heathen Harvest review)