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For Immediate Release
May 6, 2004

VOND REISSUE SET FOR US RELEASE

Philadelphia: Candlelight Records confirms May 18 as the US release date for the rare and controversial recording from Norway's Vond. Selvmord, from the artist more popularly known as Mortiis, is a record that has been unavailable for most US fans of the Norwegian musician and finds reintroduction to US audiences as the artist continues work on his next full-length recording, expected later this year.

Issued to limited release in 1997 (under the guise of Slipp Sorgen Los), Selvmord is a four-song, 50 minute ambient adventure that showcased for the first time the industrial-tinged side of the darkwave/ambient musician. "It's like entering a tunnel, a cave with only sadness and darkness," notes Amazon.com. "Some of Mortiis' best work." Its album artwork sparked immediate controversy on the album's initial European release - with several territories banning the album. The album later found two album covers so that fans in Germany and other countries could experience the album.

Mortiis first found acclaim as bassist of the now defunct and legendary black metal band Emperor. Soon, however, the then 18-year-old sought a different musical calling. Departing in 1993, he found solice in ambient sounds of the darkest kind. His early recordings encompassed a sorrowful ambience that gave hint to the musician's more cultural and worldly influences. Stargate, his 1999 release, featured vocalist Sarah Jezebel Deva (Cradle of Fith) and is considered by most his breakthru record. Mortiis would tour the US in support of Christian Death, all the while setting up for his latest and most successful album, 2001's Smell of Rain.

Track listing for Selvmord: Selvmord, Nar Livet Tar Farvel, Reisen Til en Ny Verden, Slipp Sorgen Los.

Candlelight Records, with offices in Philadelphia and headquartered in London, is distributed exclusively in the US by Caroline Distribution; in Canada by PHD Canada; throughout the rest of the world by Plastichead Music Distribution.