Fuckin awesome band.Anyone else a fan of his work?My favorite song would have to be Fucking Your Ghost In CHains Of Ice.Also talk about Wrest's other project Lurker Of Chalice of to.

I like some of his work in Leviathan, it's a bit 'hit and miss' though. Lurker of Chalice is incredible, although it seems like both projects may have come to a halt because the conflict he's having with Moribund - whoever caused the conflict there, whether it was Wrest or someone at Moribund, they should really just apologise and get things cleared up in as much of an ammicable way as is possible.

His work with Sunn O))) is great, as well.

I'm not 100% sure. They say he's been stealing money and infringing someone's copyright, I'm not quite sure what he's been saying. But I know that the work he's been doing for Leviathan had to be released under the LoC moniker, although that;s fallen through as well now. And Moribund seem to have both the Leviathan project and the LoC project caught up in contractual obligations, so he might have to drop them.

If what Moribund are saying is true, he's got no-one to blame but himself. And other labels might not pick his projects up in future because of it. But who knows what really happened...

Ah, Moribund Records posted an update on (part of) the situation:





LEVIATHAN
"Massive Conspiracy Against All Life" DigiCD/Gatefold LP/TS
RELEASE DATE 03.25.2008 (US)

_________________________________________________

But what was the problem to begin with? Why such a delay? What ever happened to the split with Nachtmystium?

I dont like to spread around too much "he said this and that" but I find these recent comments quite interesting....


From Tyler Bidwell (he used to pack all the orders at Moribund)....

" I interned at Moribund for 4 months...(and then moved to VA)... what happened is the black glam-rock metal rockstar of nachtfagium tried to bootleg the leviathan album!

Wrest was in rehab from a heroin overdose (yes, most BM guys use hardcore drugs, or are crazy, it;s why the music is so good)... and his "friend" robbed him and the label of thousands of dollars so he could record his album for his new (black metal underground)label Century Media and get out on tour with As I lay In Shit, or cock or whatever "as I lay xxx" band it was they toured with....

Then Southern Lord (who paid them advances for some split release) took them BOTH to court to get the advance $$ back they had paid mr judd, and stopped paying BKR their CD sales $$ for the other BKR CD's.... I know this cause blake called Moribund screaming and crying about it like it was their fault or somehting....

I'm also friends with several bands signed to battle kommand who say they have never been paid crap by mr judd. At least moribund pays there bands!

anyway, the album will be out sometime, on whatever label, and from the advance I heard 9 months back playing in the moribund office it was wrest best work yet...

would like to see it on a label that puts out real black metal though, and not some fucking rock star trend jumpin "I'm done proving we're NOT black metal" fag like judd's crap label."


From Blake (Nachtmystium/Battle Kommand Records)....

This is 100% bullshit. Wrest himself ASKED me to release the record and asked how we could do it without Moribund. Bottom line. He doesn't want shit to do with that label, and theres reasons for it. The album would've come out if Moribund hadn't issued me (and other involved labels) with a "cease and desist" letter from his lawyer, threatening legal actions against anyone INCLUDING wrest himself if we or anyone put that record out under any name/alias...thats the only reason this is coming out on Moribund, don't be fooled. For Moribund or ANY 'employee' or so-called 'intern' to say I was trying to 'bootleg' the album is UTTER fucking bullshit and they know it. That was a personal request via a telephone call last June between Wrest and myself...we didn't offer, he ASKED. So the concept of 'bootleg' here is beyond obscene. They (Moribund) also threatened to sue me for "slander" if I ever told any of this to the public...this isn't slander, this is just all fact and I'm not going to sit here and have my name dirtied up with your internet bullshit rumor mill. I run an honest company and our bands have always been happy with what we've done for them, which is why many are rostered for other releases. We don't tie our bands down with corporate-designed 'record contracts' that prevent you from doing anything an not having it owned by your label like "SOME" labels out there...

And Mr. Tyler here doesn't talk to anyone on our roster who hasn't been paid...if he has, I'd love to know who and I'll happily contact them. We've never ONCE had a band try to leave our label, unlike Moribund, and we pay our bands exactly what our contracts say, on time, every time. And if someone did want to leave, I'd let them go because musicians aren't slaves at my label. I just did my taxes for the year and 1099'd about 20 people in bands on our label who received checks from us this year....so that again is bullshit. Little 'kvlt' nerd throwing stones like usual...crawl back to your garbage mock-black metal internet world you fucking douche bag cry baby. People like you helped destroy everything that made black metal cool and real, and people like you are why I've done everything I can to separate my music, band and label from your nerdy little immature irrelevant world.

Anyone who'd like to 'contest' that this is indeed me leaving this comment, feel free to contact me directly.

Fuck off.

Oh and for the record - we never were and never have been "sued" or in court over ANYTHING with Southern Lord. I work closely with that label, consider its owner a friend, and we've never had any debates over money at all...the split was cancelled and I chose to buy our tracks back that the label had paid for us to record, in the name of good and honest business. No argument, and certainly not a legal issue. This comment gets me the most because the ONLY reason the split isn't out is because of Moribund Records. So you can all thank them for that as well...their big scary lawyer letter telling all of us that Moribund OWNS Leviathan and that we all need to keep our hands off his shit in a nutshell.
-B"

I still side with Wrest.

You can see how much things got twisted just by what I was led to believe previously (as can be seen in my post earlier on).

I'm definitely backing Scott with this now. However, it doesn't really look to good for him. I get a feeling that Moribund are not going to back down, which leaves him in a rather awkward situation.