Label: Eighth Tower Records
Format: CD
Country: Italy
Released: October 16, 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dark Ambient

Tracklist

1. SÍLENÍ - Beyond the Veil of Torment 05:16
2. Sonologyst + vÄäristymä - Echoes of Ecstatic Pain 06:22
3. Philippe Blache - Revelatory Signs from the Underworld 07:58
4. Grey Frequency - Demons to Some, Angels to Others 05:35
5. 400 Lonely Things - A Score To Settle (For Stephen Thrower) 05:26
6. Paolo L. Bandera - Voce Cenobita Incandescente 06:15
7. phoanøgramma - seduction of pain 05:22
8. Kokum - My voice fades away in the mystery cube 03:26
9. Mario Lino Stancati - Circus of pleasure and pain 03:46
10. Nerthus - Sweet Flesh 06:42
11. vÄäristymä - Lord of Labyrinths 06:32

In Hellraiser, Barker introduced a world in which reality fractures under the weight of forbidden desire. The puzzle box – the Lament Configuration – is both a gateway and a warning, opening a portal to a dimension ruled by the Cenobites, beings who transcend the binary of agony and ecstasy. The film challenged conventional horror by embedding philosophical and existential questions within its gore-soaked narrative: What lies beyond the threshold of human experience? Can suffering be a form of transcendence? Is pleasure meaningful without pain?
Codex Of Pleasure And Pain. A Sonic Tribute to Clive Barker’s Hellraiser is a dark sonic journey inspired by one of the most iconic and disturbing visions in modern horror cinema. Drawing from the imagery, themes, and atmosphere of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (1987), this compilation assembles 11 projects from the dark ambient, experimental, and post-industrial scenes to create an immersive experience that echoes the film’s haunting exploration of pain, pleasure, and the limits of human sensation.
The artists in Codex Of Pleasure And Pain offer abstract, oblique responses to its aesthetic and philosophical implications. The compilation functions as a sonic codex, an aural grimoire of sorts, where each piece contributes to a broader cosmology of the Hellraiser universe.
The release is accompanied by a printed volume of original short stories, also inspired by Clive Barker’s universe and the themes of Hellraiser, offering a powerful literary counterpart to the music.

Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).
Published by Eighth Tower Records.
Layout by Matteo Mariano.
Cat. Number ETR066.
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