Ewigkeit Bio

WIGKEIT is the solo-project of James Fogarty (a composer/producer from the surprisingly fashionable and paralisingly expensive town of BRIGHTON on the south coast of England) Started when James was an inexperienced musician of 16 years old,
Ewigkeit's recordings display natural growth and progression. First diving into the cesspool of death & black metal sounscapes, Ewigkeit released the simplistic/nieve album "Battle Furies" on the Eldethorn label (a subsiduary of Neat Records) in 1997.
This was then followed up by the bleak, ambient and orchestral electronic metal album "Starscape" (also on Eldethorn) in 1999, which marked a decidedly individual take on Heavy music.

In 2001, Ewigkeit recorded the album "Land Of Fog", which yet again marked a change in the direction of the band. This album was a mixture of the previous influences mixed with classic 70's rock ; Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Deep Purple, and Pink Floyd were on the stereo non-stop and some of that classic 70s ambience seeped into the music. Neat Rec. (the parent label) was then sold off to Sanctuary Publishing, who dropped all new bands on Neat/Eldethorn as their intention was to exploit the back catalogue of NWOBHM bands that Neat had released in the early-mid 80s.

It was during this time that James decided to drop the whole project and see what else was going on musically in the world. During this time he experimented with electronica, world dance-music, and sound-scape creation (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean...). In 2003 the small underground slovakian label (no - i'm not joking) Metal Age Productions got in touch and said they had heard about "Land Of Fog" and were interested in releasing it. Of course, James said "sure!"

To James's surprise, "Land Of Fog" got some great reviews, and (at the request of his new label) he went about creating what was to be the next album "Radio Ixtlan".
"Radio Ixtlan" was a "harder" and a more industrial sounding affair than the daze of the previous album, and incorporated lots of the ideas and techniques that James had picked up along the way whilst dabbling elsewhere.

The album's concept is that of a Radio station broadcasting from the ether / the future back in time to the listener. the place of "Ixtlan" is a reference to the Carlos Castenada book "Journey To Ixtlan", and is only 30 pages or so long, so to understand that - read it yourself... The album "Radio Ixtlan" was joined together with seamless noise of radio transmissions, ambient soundscapes and other stuff that people may think pretentious ; it's clear James doesn't care what people think and was just creating what he wanted - something that maybe other musicians should do more often.

Anyway - basically, through some twist of fate, James was in Nottingham visting a friend whom he had taken a copy of the new "Radio Ixtlan" album. This medlesome fool-of-a-freind decided it was too good for a limited release on M.A.P and dragged James to an Entombed gig (at Nottingham Rock City) where he was sure Digby (head at Earache Records) would be.Sure enough, propping up the bar was Mr Digby Pearson. Anyhow, Digby asked James to drop a copy of the album to his office in the morning - which James did, and then forgot about (having dealt with labels before). To his astonishment, Digby contacted James about 6 weeks later (and, coincidently, 2 days before M.A.P were to press the album) and demanded to release "Radio Ixtlan" on Earache records.

Radio Ixtlan was released in September of 2004, and was the mastered versions of the basement studio mixes that James had done himself. The album recieved great reviews from the me(n)tal press worldwide, and established EWIGKEIT as a band with a unique sound and vision rather than one of the underground copycats. In the inlay of the "Radio Ixtlan" release, were 8 books listed as suggested reading. One of those (David Icke - And The Truth Shall Set You Free) was a deliberate pointer
to the next album's concept ; Conspiracy...
In late 2004 James was working on some demo versions of what was to become the next Ewigkeit album ; "CONSPIRITUS". "Conspiritus" is an analysis of a hypothetical reality in which the world is controlled and manipulated by shadowy figures hiding behind muli-national corporations, the media machine, internationalbanks and the global military who will stop at nothing to reach their goal of a united world under a fascistic totalitarian government. It is a trip through a paranoid reality where everything you do, see, feel & believe is watched and controlled.

The music is once again woven into a non-stop seamless cinematic journey in sound. The death metal vocals have dissappeared to make way for more tunefull and empassioned vocals.

The music displays characteristics of metal, rock, electronica and sample-based music.
The album is due for release in late 2005 and is mixed by Producer John Fryer (Depeche Mode, N.I.N, White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, H.I.M, Cradle Of Filth, Paradise Lost, Fear Factory)