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Within the Depths of Silence and Phorm...

262.6K streams

262,550

Requiem for Abandoned Souls (Expanded)

170.4K streams

170,414

Anima Caelum (Alive 2014-2017)

135.3K streams

135,299

When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes: Liv...

94.1K streams

94,051

Tales from the Tabula Rasa (Early Work...

89.3K streams

89,275

Alchymeia

82.3K streams

82,283

Daemonum

76.3K streams

76,255

Metamorphyses (Expanded)

72.9K streams

72,914

In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (Expa...

63.6K streams

63,557

The Empty Hollow Unfolds (Expanded Edi...

50.8K streams

50,837

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.