Metal Blade Records has announced the signing of New Haven, CT black metal band IPSISSIMUS.

The band inked a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records and will be entering Sonic Environments studio in Bloomfield, CT to record their first full-length album and Metal Blade debut. Longtime friend of His Emissary, Jeff Weed, is not only the owner of Sonic Environments studio but has also stepped in as the band's "sonic alchemist" (aka engineer/producer).

Ipsissimus began recording in June 2010 and are taking a short break before returning to Sonic Environments studio in early September to finish the record. Their feature full-length will include the band's EP Three Secrets of Fatima along with three new songs.

Ipsissimus drummer Haimatokharmes comments; "Metal Blade is a label that has been home to artists brutal, technical, filthy, blasting, wildly successful, and, most importantly, unique. Ipsissimus is very proud to join this family, and looks forward to adoring the Goat with them by producing ritual black metal that is truly ipsissima!"

"A 3 piece black metal symphony that is at the forefront of the American Black Metal movement… Ipsissimus is technical yet punishing, perfect for Metal Blade Records and fans of our brand of metal," adds Michael Faley, President of Metal Blade Records.

Ipsissimus has a handful of upcoming one-off shows that sees the band sharing the stage with the likes of THE ABSENCE, SKELETONWITCH, WITHERED, LANDMINE MARATHON, UNEARTHLY TRANCE, BLACK PYRAMID, SUMA and more.

Ipsissimus is:

Tichondrius - Bass / Vocals

Haimatokharmes - Drums

His Emissary - Guitar

Ipsissimus was founded when His Emissary (guitars) and Haimatokharmes (drums) met by providence on 6/6/06 in New Haven, CT, and found in one another worthy vessels of channeling the occult philosophies into ritual black metal. In November of that year, Tichondrius (bass/vocals) completed the trinity.

Within a month they were playing concerts and released the demo Trampling The Host, a potent exercise in raw, blasting black metal. Over the following years, they established a reputation across New England for technical yet raw live performances, sharing the stage with both local and established black metal groups, such as NACHTMYSTIUM, ENSLAVED, DARK FUNERAL, KRALLICE and WATAIN.

In February 2008, Ipsissimus independently released the Three Secrets of Fatima EP, a complex and melodic triptych that thrust them to the forefront of the burgeoning American black metal scene. In June, Ipsissimus played the Three Secrets of Fatima EP start to finish to a very enthusiastic crowd when the band opened up for legendary EYEHATEGOD and Nachtmystium. Matching their music to orations of black piety that draw from esoteric traditions antique and modern, often composed in the dead tongues of the ancients themselves, Ipsissimus initiates the listener to a Left-Hand Gnosis with a unique and irrefutable statement of American black metal.

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