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

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Leviathan

Leviathan (band)

Leviathan is an American black metal band formed in 1998 by Wrest . In Leviathan, Wrest records and plays all instruments including vocals entirely on his own. Additionally, Wrest has collaborated with the band Sunn O))), and is an active member of the U.S. black metal supergroup Twilight...

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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

Blake Judd

Blake Judd is an American musician and co-founder of Battle Kommand Records. He previously performed under the stage name "Azentrius".-Biography:...

's Battle Kommand Records

Battle Kommand Records

Battle Kommand Records is an American underground record label founded by Blake Judd and Rebecca Clegg in 2004, based in St. Charles, Illinois...

. But Moribund's lawyer's issued a cease and desist

Cease and desist

A cease and desist is an order or request to halt an activity and not to take it up again later or else face legal action. The recipient of the cease-and-desist may be an individual or an organization....

 order. This also affected and delayed the Nachtmystium

Nachtmystium

Nachtmystium is an American psychedelic black metal band formed by Blake Judd, formerly known as Azentrius, and Pat McCormick. The band's name is derived from the German word Nacht meaning "night", and the made-up term mystium which resembles the Latin adjective mysticum...

 / Leviathan split album which was to be released on Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord is an American record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson, specializing in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres. Some of the more notable artists on the label include Earth, Om,...

 in 2007.

The vinyl

Gramophone record

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 version of Massive Conspiracy Against All Life was released on May 20, 2008 via Moribund Records

Moribund Records

Moribund Records is an extreme metal label based out of Port Orchard, Washington. Some common aliases are "Moribund Cult" or just "Moribund."-Artists:*Ayat*Azrael*Behexen*Catacombs*Hacavitz*Hæresiarchs of Dis*Horna*Judas Iscariot*Leviathan*Nazxul...

. 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

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. "(Vinyl Bonus Track)-Perverse Calculus 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

Leviathan (band)

Leviathan is an American black metal band formed in 1998 by Wrest . In Leviathan, Wrest records and plays all instruments including vocals entirely on his own. Additionally, Wrest has collaborated with the band Sunn O))), and is an active member of the U.S. black metal supergroup Twilight...

.) The pre-release track listing was:

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