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. Recorded live in private concert June 21st 2026 at the “Temple des 33, Paris/France. Full colour sleeve (inside-out print), incl. digital download-code.
Produced by black lung. all titles written by D. Thrussell except ‘De Profundis’ (Thrussell/Scullin/Brown) and ‘Order out of Chaos’ (Thrussell/Verhagen). Vocal production on ‘Wrongthink’ by atom™.
Special guests: Miles Brown and Byron Scullin on ‘De Profundis’ and Darrin Verhagen (Shinjuku Thief) on ‘Order out of Chaos.’ Original artwork by Richard Grant / i+t=r. Layout and Design by salt.
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…