Sol Niger Within

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Sol Niger Within

Studio album by Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
Released	February 22, 1999
Genre	Progressive Experimental Technical Death Metal
Length	52:50
Label	Ultimate Audio Entertainment, Relapse Records

Sol Niger Within is the first and only solo release by Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal. The solo album was originally released in 1997 with Ultimate Audio Entertainment.

The album was remixed and re-released by Ultimate Audio Entertainment and Relapse Records in 1999 under the title "Sol Niger Within version 3.33". The re-release contains two bonus tracks but omits several parts of the original version. A number of other releases also exist (see below).

The album features drums by Morgan Ågren and keyboards by Mats Öberg, members of the Swedish Mats/Morgan Band, which performed with Frank Zappa.

The album contains several references to Meshuggah's works. The last song, "Tathagata", is exactly identical to the ending of the song "Sublevels" from Meshuggah's Destroy Erase Improve album. Additionally, the song "Sensorium Dei" contains the lyric "Contradiction Collapses".

1 Track listing
2 Credits
3 Versions
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

The following is the track listing for the original 1997 release:

"Antanca - The End (The Uncompounded Reality)"

00:00 "The Beginning Of The End Of Extraction (Evolutional Slow Down)"
01:36 "The Executive Furies Of The Robot Lord Of Death"
03:04 "Descent To The Netherworld"
03:34 "...Och Stjärnans Namn Var Malört"
05:28 "Dante's Wild Inferno"
06:27 "I, Galactus"
07:56 "Skeletonization"
08:11 "Sickness And Demoniacal Dreaming"
09:17 "UFOria"
09:56 "Z1-Reticuli"
12:48 "Transmigration Of Souls"
14:16 "In Reality All Is Void"
14:46 "Krapp's Last Tape"
16:02 "Through Fear We Are Unconscious"
17:01 "Death At Both Ends"
18:00 "Bouncing In A Bottomless Pit"
19:14 "The Sun Door"
20:46 "Painful Disruption"
21:15 "Vitamin K Experience (A Homage To The Scientist/John Lilly)"
22:12 "Cosmic Vagina Dentata Organ"
26:55 "Sensorium Dei"
30:37 "Magickal Theatre .33."
32:27 "Z2-Reticuli"
35:19 "De Profundis"
35:49 "Existence Out Of Joint "
37:03 "On A Crater's Verge"
38:17 "Solarization"
40:07 "The End Of The Beginning Of Contraction (Involutional Speed Up/Preparation For The Big Crunch)"
40:23 "Tathagata"

[edit] Credits

Mats Öberg: Church organ, synthesizer (Parts 2, 20)
Jonas Knutsson: Sax (Parts 20, 23, 27, 28)
Jerry Ericsson: Bass (Parts 10, 23)
Kantor Magnus Larsson: Church organ (Part 22)
Victor Alneng: Yidaki (Part 14)
Morgan Ågren: Drums
Marcus Persson: Vocals
Tomas Haake: Spoken Vocals
Jennie Thordendal: Gallskrik
Petter Marklund: Lyric Contributions
Fredrik Thordendal: Guitars, Bass, Lead Vocals, and Programming

[edit] Versions

CD RR6417. Sol Niger Within version 3.33 (Ultimate Audio Entertainment & Relapse Records) - a new mix by Fredrik Thordendal and Daniel Bergstrand; no church organs, better sound quality, PQ-coding rather than index, and bonus songs, "Missing Time" and "Ooo Baby Baby". (Nuclear Blast Records)
CD UAE 4. Original version. (Ultimate Audio Entertainment)
CD NB 271. Original version. (Nuclear Blast Records)
CD MICY-1091 (Avalon) Japanese release of original version.
Fredrik has also edited a short version for Nuclear Blast. It's about six minutes and contains the heaviest sounding parts from the original. Nuclear Blast has released it on a promo record. It features parts 11 (minus the end), 12, 13, 14 (minus the end), 17, 24, and 25 (first half).