My Discography

Here is a brief look at the albums I've been involved with over the years.

2008 The Eternal Kartika
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Pipa
Additional Engineering / Production

2008 Ashkhara Soul Burning Promo 2008
Mark: Guitar / Backing Vocals
Engineering / Production

2007 InSomnius Dei Illusions Of Silence
Mark: Guitar / Drums / Vocals
Engineering / Production

2007 Rainshadow End Songs
Mark: Drums / Bass / Keyboards
Engineering / Production

2007 Painted Black Verbo
Mark: Lead guitar on 'Night Shift'

2006 ION Madre, Protégenos
Mark: Vocals on 'Anathema Maranatha' & 'O Efeito do Verão'

2006 Rainshadow Demo 2006
Mark: Drums / Bass / Keyboards
Engineering / Production

2005 The Eternal Sleep Of Reason
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Additional Production

2004 The Eternal The Sombre Light Of Isolation
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Keyboards

2003 The Eternal Promo 2003
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Keyboards
Engineering/ Production

2002 ThreeThirteen ThreeThirteen
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Engineering / Production

2000 Cryptal Darkness Chapter II The Fallen
Mark: Guitar / Vocals

1999 Cryptal Darkness They Whispered You Had Risen
Mark: Guitar / Vocals

1997 Cryptal Darkness Promotional Sampler 1997
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Keyboards

1996 Cryptal Darkness Endless Tears
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Keyboards

1996 Cryptal Darkness Descend Into Thy Grave
Mark: Guitar / Vocals / Keyboards

1995 Paramaecium Within The Ancient Forest
Mark: Acoustic guitar on 'Gone Is My Former Resolve'

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A long overdue update

Since my last update so much has happened, The Eternal released our third album Kartika which was well received, this was followed by a fantastic world tour full of amazing experiences, we did 32 dates through Australia, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Canada, Mexico & the USA. Truly a high point of my career thus far, mostly due to the fact we organised most of this tour off our own backs through endless hard work and networking, anyone out there that thinks The Eternal has some kind of silver, think again! It was quite an accomplishment for the 3 of us & we hope to hit the road again next year.

So now what you may ask? Well on a personal level I have just contributed some vocals to the new Íon album titled Immaculada, its shaping up to be a great album so head to www.duncanpatterson.com for more details. My band of Finnish rockers Ashkhara finished our EP/Demo a while back and it sounds great! Self produced by Anzta Talala and myself, it turned out great, we even managed a cover of the Icehouse track Man of Colours also, the whole CD is at our myspace so check it out!

Since our tour The Eternal have not slowed down a bit, in fact we have accelerated somewhat. We have the studio booked for December 4th with a fantastic producer who I respect greatly and we are writing madly for what is turning out to be one rocking album! About 10 tracks are demoed at the moment and I'm feeling really great about the material, personally I think its some of my best and most mature work, so I cant wait to share some songs with you.

Well I will aim to update this new look site a bit more so stay tuned!

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Welcome again...

This blog is from my previous official site, written on 01.07.08:

Welcome to my new site, I thought it would be cool to have somewhere I could post about all my various projects in one place, so here it is, markkelson.com.

I have various projects on the go at the moment. We are about to master the new The Eternal album, which I have been writing and preparing for about 3 years. I'm looking forward to this finally getting a release, the first pressing should be a special one with a bonus disc running about 45 minutes being included. This is coming up very well and will feature some unreleased demos including a re-recording of the song 'Last Embrace' which I wrote back in the Cryptal Darkness days. I've always had a desire to re-record this song as I felt the initial recording did not do it justice. Although the new version is a demo I believe it has captured what the song is about, so finally this one will make it's re-release.

Another project that is in early stages is Ashkhara, this is an interesting one as I am the only Australian in the band, the rest of the guys are Finnish and are known for such bands as To/Die/For, Soulrelic & Saralee. Guitarist Antza and myself have written around 16 songs for the project and there is some great stuff there! We have commenced recording a five track demo, all the music is done (We managed to get some recording done on my recent trip to Finland) and we hope to do vocals and the mix very soon. You can find out more about the band and hear some early samples at our myspace.

A solo album is something I have been thinking about, basically because I have a few ideas that don't fit in with any of the above bands. I have around 5 half tracks, its going to be quite mellow but i think it will be a nice contrast to some of the above projects. I hope to have some of this material online this year to give you all a taste.

For the next few months my focus will remain on The Eternal and preparing all the finishing touch's for the album, like a new website, video clips etc... so still quite alot of work ahead on 'Kartika'

Well, with all that out of the way, welcome to the site and please sign the guestbook if you have a moment. If you would like to hear some songs I've been involved with please go to: www.myspace.com/markkelson

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