⋘"Vitamysterium" is the opening track to CIIKADA's first and only release, entitled "Mono Chrome Horrific (Emulation Obscene)", which is technically only a demo/incomplete version of the album. Allegedly, the band was "born to die" and during the recording sessions, everything seemed to fall apart. Thus, the album is supposedly unfinished and should be deemed a demo whilst listening to it.

All that said, if this is a demo, it's the best damn demo I've ever heard; clearly a great deal of effort was put into the recording & mixing of this material - I honestly feel as though it may have been mastered, albeit quickly, at some point prior to it being freely distributed by the now-defunct band.

PLEASE NOTE: the full album was offered up on Ciikada's Facebook page, not to mention on several blogspot sites where music is given away for free as long as the artist(s) approve it as such. You can visit their Facebook page at the link below if you wish to grab the whole full length "demo" from Mediafire ---- but I'm also adding that download link here seeing as how the goal of the band (or, really, the one member who "was the band") is to spread the material as much as possible.⋙

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(.....the following is a post on Justin's blog; him being the 'core' member of this project......)

Yes, I know monochrome is really one word. WHATEVER. This is a demo in recording, in name and all that. Here is the deal. My computer video card is blown out. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't using a fucking imac G5. My headphones done blown up too. I took them to a nice guy to see if he could weld them bitches back together. Anyway...::...::...

This is some music I made. It was going to be a project or a band or something. Not sure. Well, actually I am sure. It was originally going to be amterrorxp second album. After a few tracks were done me and orphee decided to not do that like that. So, we decided to make it something else. Baub and Chad also did vocals this time out along with Orphee and me. I played the music except thanks to Jocke Treason for the brutal drumming ;)

The style is black metal, grind, crust, dbeat whatever I don't know. I don't think it fits really neatly into categories because it has all kinds of different influence and all that. It's punk I guess. It's got black metal parts and thrash parts. You tell me. Blackened crust with less influence on dbeat and more influence on symphonic? I don't know. Sometimes epic, sometimes silly.

The reason I'm posting this right now on a random night is just because. I would like to do something but considering I work full time now I don't know if I will. And considering my computer is falling apart I dont know when I'll get to final mix this shit or whatever. So, I would like to share it though. This is demo version 1.o.

If you like this please let me know and please tell your friend. Also, please repost this on other blogs.

Yes, its ciikada. Just like that.
-justin

ciikada-mono chrome horrific {emulation obscene} [demo ver1.0]
1. Vitamysterium 2:22
2. The Hand, The Morning Star. 2:02
3. You Get nothing 2:25
4. And Emptyness 3:39
5. (Any Order) The Withered Tree 2:46
6. honi soit qui mal y pense 1:46
7. Palace 2:00
8. EARtH IS THE SUN 3:53
9. Inhaling the Fumes of the Pit and in Tongues We Speak 2:22
10. Blazing Eye 1:22
11. Glorious 2:44
12. Corridors... Choking Stench 1:59
13. Swank Shithouse :11
14. Treblinka 4:48
15. Hooked on the Obscene 2:14
16. Like Tears in the Rain 4:01
17. The Navajo Know (pixies) 2:06

90mg 320k mp3 17 tracks 42.33


BAND MEMBERS:

Justin - Vocals, Guitars, Programming
????? - Other Musicians, perhaps...


BAND CONTACT INFO:

Your best bet is to send them a message through Facebook, since there are literally no other means of social media the band is connected to. Hopefully they'll come back one day, but in the meantime enjoy the awesome full length album, which I personally don't consider merely a demo!