David Thrussell (aka BLACK LUNG/SNOG) was never publically identified as a freemason, but his previous work has undoubtably referenced many subtle masonic themes. So it should perhaps come as little surprise that he was asked to perform in a private concert (to a select audience) at one of the most historic and prestigious masonic lodges in Europe.
The music presented here is extracted from both those midnight and dawn performances and is suitably grand, heroic, dystopian and haunting. it is music built to accompany rituals of both destruction and renewal, in reverant acknowlegdement of the role that the august brotherhood of freemasonry has played (and continues to play) in shaping our spiritual and material world.
Fittingly, the performances occured in the elite “Temple des 33” chamber (never open to the public) and the resultant album was named both in honour of the maxim of that highest 33rd masonic degree ('ordo ab chao'/'order out of chaos') and in celebration of the obvious and profound success of that motto in our ostensibly disordered world today.
Welcome to the now sound of 21st century freemasonry...
Released November 2026 on Ant-Zen Records.
TRACKLIST:
A1 The Owl of Minerva
A2 Wrongthink
A3 Novus Ordo Seclorum
A4 Rex Mundi
A5 Imperative
A6 The Demiurge
B1 De Profundis
B2 Being and Creation
B3 The Book of Seven Seals
B4 Imperium
B5 Order out of Chaos
English