Ewigkeit

Formed in 1995, Ewigkeit is the one-man experimental extreme music project of James Fogarty (aka Mr. Fog).

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The purpose of this one-man project was to try and forge a totally unique musical sound, rather than copy from others. After the release of the first album, Battle Furies on a short-lived Neat Records subsidiary called Eldethorn, Fogarty reputedly gave his entire music collection away to an Oxfam charity shop so that he would be free of influences creating his next work. Starscape was received well by the critical extreme music press, but label problems delayed the release of Land of Fog, which was eventually released on Metal Age Productions. Fogarty himself regards this as the first 'proper' Ewigkeit album, and it gained him enough attention to get his project signed to the prestigious (in extreme music circles) Earache label, on which Radio Ixtlan was released in 2004, to general critical praise. 2005's Conspiritus, a conceptual album examining the paranoid reality of conspiracy theorists, has been more divisive, but has been hailed by many as marking a maturation of Ewigkeit's eclectic sound.

Extreme music: Extreme music is any of a wide variety of musical styles that span mainly subgenres of metal, hardcore and industrial music, but also includes some electronic music and even some free-form jazz....

James Fogarty: James Fogarty is a musician/producer born/based in Brighton, England....

Neat Records: Neat Records was a record label based in Newcastle, England. The label was established in 1979 by David Wood of Impulse Studios. The label was sold in 1995 by its then owner, the former Tygers of Pan Tang vocalist Jess Cox, to Sanctuary Records....