Massive Conspiracy Against All Life

Studio album by Leviathan

Released

24 March 2008

Genre

Black metal, dark ambient

Length

62:16

Label

Moribund Cult

Leviathan chronology

The Blind Wound
(2006)

Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
(2008)

True Traitor, True Whore
(2011)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork Media	(8/10)^[1]

Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is the third full-length album by San Francisco-based one-man black metal band Leviathan.

There was much controversy over the release of this album, which was originally slated for a summer release in 2007. Supposedly Wrest tried to release the album under the Lurker of Chalice moniker via Blake Judd's Battle Kommand Records. But Moribund's lawyer's issued a cease and desist order. This also affected and delayed the Nachtmystium / Leviathan split album which was to be released on Southern Lord Records in 2007.

The vinyl version of Massive Conspiracy Against All Life was released on May 20, 2008 via Moribund Records. The LP was limited to 500 copies on black vinyl and 500 copies on red vinyl.

This was the first Leviathan LP to feature acoustic drums as opposed to the electronic drums Wrest used on most of the band's prior releases.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Vesture Dipped in the Blood of Morning"	5:22
2.	"Merging With Sword, Onto Them"	10:58
3.	"Made as the Stale Wine of Wrath"	8:44
4.	"VI-XI-VI"	7:09
5.	"Perverse Calculus" (vinyl bonus track)	7:17
6.	"Receive the World"	7:48
7.	"Vulgar Asceticism"	9:20
8.	"Noisome Ash Crown"	12:55

For unknown reasons, the pre-release album leak featured different track titles, despite containing exactly the same songs. (The CD-Text information of the released CD still refers to these alternate titles, and Wrest's Lurker of Chalice moniker instead of Leviathan.) The pre-release track listing was:

Track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sacred Scars"	5:22
2.	"Seamless Garment as the Morning"	10:58
3.	"Last Breath of Expiation"	8:44
4.	"6116"	7:09
5.	"Phosphoros"	7:48
6.	"Flagellum Raised to the Sky"	9:20
7.	"Sanies Obnuntio"	12:55

References

↑ Lee, Cosmo. Massive Conspiracy Against All Life / Lurker of Chalice review pitchforkmedia.com. 2008-06-02. Retrieved on 2011-08-19

Leviathan

Wrest

Studio albums/EPs	The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (2003) Tentacles of Whorror (2004) The Speed of Darkness (2006) The Blind Wound (2006) Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (2008) True Traitor, True Whore (2011) Scar Sighted (2015)

Compilations	Verräter (2002) Demos Two Thousand (2005) A Silhouette in Splinters (2005) Howl Mockery at the Cross (2005)

Split releases	Live in Eternal Sin / The Speed of Darkness (Split with Iuvenes) (2003) Leviathan & Crebain (2004) Leviathan & Xasthur (2004) Portrait in Scars (Split with Blackdeath) (2005) Leviathan & Sapthuran (2006)

Demos	Three (1998) Time End (1998) MisanthropicNecroBlasphemy (2000) Shadows of No Light (2000) Slaveship (Seven) (2000) Video Brolo (Eight) (2000) Inclement Derision (Nine) (2001) Ten (2001) Intolerance (Eleven) (2001) Howl Mockery at the Cross (2001) Sacrifice Love at the Altar of War (2001) White Devil, Black Metal (2002) XV (2002) The 10th Sub Level of Suicide (2002)

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