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Within the Depths of Silence and Phorm...

261.6K streams

261,591

Requiem for Abandoned Souls (Expanded)

170.3K streams

170,274

Anima Caelum (Alive 2014-2017)

135K streams

135,001

When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes: Liv...

94K streams

93,964

Tales from the Tabula Rasa (Early Work...

89.2K streams

89,232

Alchymeia

82K streams

81,950

Daemonum

75.9K streams

75,877

Metamorphyses (Expanded)

72.7K streams

72,730

In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (Expa...

63.2K streams

63,152

The Empty Hollow Unfolds (Expanded Edi...

50.4K streams

50,379

Biography

raison d'être (Sweden) formed in 1991 as a tool of expression with the goal of self-realization. Behind the project is the highly respected and multi talented sound artist Peter Andersson. For over two decades now, with a vast number of album releases, raison d'être has been creating music with overwhelming dark ambient drone industrial qualities that left marks on most listeners. In recent years Andersson works mainly with field recordings and acoustic instruments like gongs, cymbals, bells, flutes, piano, various metal plates and string instruments; record and manipulate them in digital domain to make the sounds very unique and perfected. Experiencing raison d'être is like diving into the obscure hidden domains of ones inner self. Whether it is like a good dream or a nightmare is up to you. But this is not all. Peter Andersson host not only one but up to ten other projects representing different sides and sounds of the Andersson character. The most well known except for raison d'être are Stratvm Terror, Necrophorus, Bocksholm and Atomine Elektrine.