Supplication by Akhlys

Driven by his 'personal daemon', Naas Alcameth (NIGHTBRINGER, BESTIA ARCANA, AORATOS) initiated AKHLYS in 2009 as a solo endeavour amid an ongoing fascination with ritualistic Dark Ambient music, and in tribute to the ancient Greek goddess of 'death-mist', daughter of chaos and bringer of misery from which the project takes its name.

Originally released 2009 on limited CD-R and last reissued in 2019, debut album "Supplication" is a tense and disturbing work of Horror Ambient. A trance-inducing, highly personal melding of spiritual and mythic nightmare via haunting synth, ominous sound design, ghostly vocalisations and percussive solemnity.

Now subject to a 2025 DMP CD/vinyl reissue - which includes reworked art by Chthonia – "Supplication" is crucial to the modern AKHLYS sound, its tortured dreamworld underpinning the occult Black Metal psychosis of subsequent records from the now fully-fledged band: 2015 modern classic "The Dreaming I", 2020's unstoppable "Melinoë" and latest oneiric masterpiece, 2024's "House of the Black Geminus".

AKHLYS was created by Naas Alcameth (NIGHTBRINGER, BESTIA ARCANA) in 2009 to serve as a voice for the muse that arises from the dark lands between death and dreams through chilling ambient darkness.
Since that time AKHLYS has been slowly fleshed anew, arising again as a dark ambient and black metal unification, the reification of a dream sojourn through the chambers of Yesod.