The past year has been one of unprecedented creative activity for The Medea Project, the unique two-piece band that walk the boundaries between the darkest of underground music genres, carving out their own kingdom of shadows where others fear to tread. In the summer of 2025 they unveiled the magnificent collision of gothic artifice, primal savagery and bleak imaginings that was their second full length studio album, the critically acclaimed Kharon. Then at the very dawning of the new year, they gifted us with Live At Dingwalls – the superb London launch show for Kharon captured for eternity in all its fierce, honest, bloody glory. And now they bring us something different again, another transformation, another voyage into realms unknown…into the dreamspace of Akkadian Artefacts.
To create the magic of Akkadian Artefacts The Medea Project took a selection of their songs and handed them over to Lucifer X (aka David Fox) of industrial/anti-pop/noise merchants St. Lucifer. Given free rein to go wherever the songs and his vision should take him, Fox proceeded to take The Medea Project’s music on a journey of metamorphosis, drawing out the songs’ secrets, bringing their hidden elements into the light. The results of this strange communion are little short of spectacular, a gateway into another dimension where different possibilities within The Medea Project’s music are explored and the well-trodden paths left far behind. From the dusty tombs and scarred ruins of ‘Babylon (The Fall Of Akkadia)’ we travel through the haunted caverns of ‘Ghosts In The Shell’ to the cold intensity and constantly reforming shadows of ‘Cave Dweller’. ‘The Drone Song (Desertion)’ holds us in a moment of time that stretches out into eternity and ‘Redacted’ takes us into a sacred place of breathtaking, quiet magic, in the presence of the unknown and all-knowing. It’s the sign of a great song, that it can be so utterly undone and remade, yet still retain all its character and power – and every song on Akkadian Artefacts has survived the sorcerous manipulations of David Fox and become something more as a result.
When Akkadian Artefacts is released via BDB Studios, on hand-numbered, limited-edition CD and digital formats, on April 20th, complete with Lucifer X’s original artwork, friends will become strangers and familiar landscapes unknown territories of dreams and nightmares, knowledge and madness. Prepare to pass through the glass, to the other side of the mirror.
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