The Medea Project - Akkadian Artefacts

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  THE MEDEA PROJECT - AKKADIAN ARTEFACTS EP

  LABEL: BDB STUDIOS

  RELEASE DATE: APRIL 20th 2026

  “Fading out, you drift into the light
  Caked in dust, this is where you'll die
  Of your wisdom, time will never know
  Land of lost gods, this is where we go.”
  -Babylon - The Medea Project

  We walk through scarred ruins, bathed in the blood of sunset. The dust rises about our feet like swarms of infinitesimal devils, raging silently at our passage, our intrusion into their kingdom of loss. The weight of ages hangs heavy in the air, the taste of forgotten souls bitter upon our dry, cracked lips. Beneath our feet, below this broken ground lie the answers we have sought for so many years, wrapped in cerements of shadow and bound in words of forbidding and forgetting. It is time to descend and receive whatever gifts the Fates have prescribed for us.

  Following on from the raw, untrammelled passion and majesty of their Live At Dingwalls release, The Medea Project are about to reveal yet another aspect of their many faceted sound. They have offered up their children of the night, their beautifully warped brood of songs, to Lucifer X (aka David Fox) of industrial/anti-pop/noise band St. Lucifer, to do with as he wilt…and he has handed back to them Akkadian Artefacts; five songs remixed, reimagined and reconfigured. Reticent shades have been drawn from their places of hiding within these layered compositions - and songs once known have become entrancing strangers. Just as dark, just as dramatic but utterly transformed. Akkadian Artefacts is an ambient, atmospheric shadow world, the other side of The Medea Project mirror. From the lightless mausoleum of 'Babylon (The Fall Of Akkadia), through the melancholy, haunted dream state of 'Ghosts In The Shell', to the hard electronics and shadows reshaped of 'Cave Dweller', these new visions are spellbinding. Brett Minnie's vocals have gained an additional power in their new isolation and the strength of the lyrics really hits home; in their fragmented state, removed from their natural surrounding structure they call for a fresh appreciation. 'The Drone Song (Desertion)' holds you like a flickering light in the void with no sense of time, space or self and throughout final track, 'Redacted', you hardly dare to breathe - afraid of breaking its still magic and attracting the gaze of forgotten gods, consumed in their timeless ceremonies. This is the sound of the world ending, not in nuclear fire, but in a quiet fading of the light.

  “And still we dream in the desert's night
  on distant breeze in a lost yesterday.
  The Desert Song - The Medea Project

  Complete with artwork also conceived and created by Lucifer X, Akkadian Artefacts will be released on digital and limited-edition, hand-numbered CD formats on April 20th, by BDB Studios. Step through the veil and discover that all you knew is but a dream, your faith is built on shifting sands and nothing, nothing is what it seems…

  “We are the gods of a dying sun
  We are the gods of a dying son
  Here below in the world remain, where shadows come and shadows play.”
  Reborn - The Medea Project

  Genre: Dark Ambient/Doom/Electronica
  For Fans Of: Apollyon Sun | Tiamat | Coil | Ager Sonus

  Line-up:
  Brett Minnie - Guitars/Vocals
  Pauline Silver - Drums & Percussion
  All songs reimagined, deconstructed, reassembled and remixed by Lucifer X

  

  The Medea Project - Babylon (The Fall Of Akkadia)

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