General information
When VC assembled and released Dextronaut, the intention was much less serious than on Genevieve, an alternate list of joke song titles were provided, with SGL and LVG being abbreviations of Sir Grim-a-Lot and Lord Very Grim.
During the Genevieve cycle, these were changed to Sandon Graeme Laurent and Lazare Veronique Garnier, ornate French names chosen to connote a sense of luxury, fitting the already established initialisms.
As such, Dextronaut was originally circulated with this deliberately ridiculous track list, artwork depicting the members of the band as Varg Vikernes and Per Ohlin, and the fake label Grim Productions. This version likely surfaced online around 2002, shortly after it was recorded, although the band fabricated claims that it was recorded in 1998. It’s unlikely that this version made its way beyond a small circle of contacts and connections, but later circulated on file-sharing platforms.
Original tracklist
| 01 | Intro (Through Ice Caverns Of Grimness And Frost) |
| 02 | Chapter II Grim Chariots (Blazing The Trail Of Northern Cold) |
| 03 | Chapter II Symphonaire Des Grim (Troll Fire Of Bloody Snowhells) |
| 04 | Chapter III Grimica Und Helvetta (Dark Romantic Slavery) |
| 05 | Chapter IV Tales Of Grimness (Lord Grim Scarysad) |
| 06 | Chapter V Night Frost Tragedy (Death Of Grimica) |
| 07 | Chapter VI Grim Opus (Devil Forest Of Die) |
| 08 | Chapter VII Grim Icicles Of Misanthropy (Starlit Seas Of Angel Blood) |
| 09 | Outro (Grimbitten In The Elysian Ice Fields) |
There even was a review which seems to suggest a different origin other than Portland, OR.:
Raw primitive black metal from the barren wastelands of Oklahoma! Demo level recording and evil gnome vox. Sorta in the vein of say VONDUR. Tongue-in-cheek and that’s good. Pictures of Grishnack and Dead for the band members. Regret that I really can’t read the song titles cos of the layout. All in good fun you grim church burning fucks!
(address withheld)
Release information
2006
Full Moon Productions
FMP041
2xCD
Dextronaut was then re-mastered and released as a double disc CD set in December 2006. The songs “Starlit Seas of Angel Blood” and “When The Purest Flesh Is Alive In A Heart Full of Hate” don’t appear on this edition. The second disc, December Star Embassy, is comprised of three lengthy ambient tracks from D Marvin.
Dextronaut
| 01 | Bloodletting |
| 02 | Infinite Plateau |
| 03 | Nest Of Hate |
| 04 | Perched on a Neverending Peak |
| 05 | Setting Off the Twilights |
| 06 | A Year of Decembers |
| 07 | Reverie |
| 08 | World Untouched by Mankind |
DSE
| 01 | Velorum |
| 02 | Ambient Planet |
| 03 | Nighttime Ice Horizon |
The track Nighttime Ice Horizon contains a message that can be heard when the track is reversed:
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2010
Khyrsanthoney
honey003
CD, 2LP
In 2010, Khrysanthoney re-issued the album with ten tracks, and the original, unmastered audio. This version also does not include the second disc of ambient material. It also featured new artwork, and vinyl versions included a 10” x 20” poster. CD copies are limited to 150, vinyl is limited to 250, 150 on black and 100 on clear.
| 01 | Bloodletting |
| 02 | Infinite Plateau |
| 03 | Nest Of Hate |
| 04 | Perched on a Neverending Peak |
| 05 | Setting Off the Twilights |
| 06 | A Year of Decembers |
| 07 | Reverie |
| 08 | Starlit Seas of Angel Blood |
| 09 | World Untouched by Mankind |
| 10 | When the Purest Flesh is Alive in a Heart Full of Hate |