Trepaneringsritualen ‘Perfection & Permanence’ returns on limited moss green vinyl via Cold Spring
Cold Spring reissues Trepaneringsritualen’s “Perfection & Permanence” on limited moss green LP (CSR198LP-2), 500 copies, June 12, 2026 — out of print for nearly a decade.
Cold Spring Records has announced a vinyl repress of Trepaneringsritualen’s “Perfection & Permanence” death industrial LP, due June 12, 2026. The edition is pressed on moss green vinyl, limited to 500 copies. The original LP was released in 2014 and has been out of print for nearly a decade.
The repress replicates the original 2014 LP programme in full across two sides.
- Side A: “Venerated & Despised” (2:34), “A Black Egg” (3:54), “Castrate Christ” (4:37), “Liken Ingen Jord Vill Svälja” (2:34), “Alone/A/Cross/Abyss” (3:48).
- Side B: “Thirty-Nine Lashes” (2:37), “The Seventh Man” (3:24), “Konung Krönt I Blod” (3:30), “A Ceaseless Howling” (3:29), “He Who Is My Mirror” (5:17).
About Trepaneringsritualen
Trepaneringsritualen is a death industrial and ritual ambient project founded by Swedish artist Thomas Martin Ekelund in 2008, initially based in Göteborg, Sweden, and later relocating to Berlin, Germany.
The project released its first full-length, “Deathward, to the Womb”, in 2012 on Cold Spring Records. Side-Line reviewed the album at the time of release. “Perfection & Permanence” followed in 2014 on the same label, issued simultaneously on CD and LP; the white vinyl LP edition was limited to 500 copies.
In 2017, Trepaneringsritualen released the full-length “Kainskult” on Tesco Organisation, and the project also collaborated with MZ.412 on the live document “Post Industriale / Rituals” 2LP. The same year, the project compiled two earlier split LPs on the CD “Yours Is a Kingdom of Death”.
In 2018, Trepaneringsritualen and Nordvargr released “Alpha Ænigma”, a collaborative album. The project subsequently appeared on Cold Spring’s compilation “Arise – A Cold Spring Sampler” in 2023. In 2021, Thomas Martin Ekelund partnered with Henrik Nordvargr Björkk on “Lidaverken Del I: Att i Vådeld Förgås”. The project has released further albums including “ᛉᛦ – Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave” (2019) and “The Totality of Death (A)” and “The Totality of Death (Ω)” (both 2024).
The repress of Trepaneringsritualen “Perfection & Permanence” is available via Cold Spring Records.
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