Jacob Buczarski started his Black Metal project, Mare Cognitum in Santa Ana, CA in the year of 2011. He has been active in various forms of Metal bands ever since he was in high school, including filling in on guitar for Atmospheric Black Metal band Vessel I. He has also produced and played drums and bass in Shoegaze act Spirit Lapse.
Mare Cognitum - Discography (2011 - 2021)
The Sea Which Has Become Known (2011)
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The Sea Which Has Become Known is the first release of Mare Cognitum. It was recorded during the summer of 2011 and released in July. Reissued on CD and Vinyl formats in 2018 by I, Voidhanger Records and Fallen Empire Records, respectively. 2018 artwork by Moonroot Art.
An Extraconscious Lucidity (2012) (Remastered 2015)
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After the underground success of “Phobos Monolith” (I, Voidhanger Records 2014), MARE COGNITUM embark on a time travel through black holes and dead galaxies to bring their second full-length work, 2012's “An Extraconscious Lucidity” back to a new life. Originally available only as digital and limited CD-r, the album has been fully remastered to enhance his cosmic black metal aura, and has been wrapped up in an intriguing art design that underlines its nature as a true alien artifact.
“An Extraconscious Lucidity is a view into a decrepit corner of the cosmos, where universes are conceived as quickly as they are destroyed,” explains MARE COGNITUM's sole member Jacob Buczarski.
“In this cosmic womb we find sorrowful galaxies, self-aware and conscious. As this cosmic energy swirls and suffers, it is purified, and The Extraconscious Lucidity of the universe is wrought - an ultra-luminous presence of cosmic mind which connects all matter and surpasses all awareness that has come before it. This hollow actualization, in all its grandeur, can still do nothing to appease its own realization that it is, in itself, nothing. It is a journey into the ultimate void.”
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore - Sol (2013)
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"Sol Ouroboros" by Mare Cognitum.
"Sol Medius" by Spectral Lore.
"Red Giant" is a collaboration.
Phobos Monolith (2014)
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"Phobos Monolith" is an observation on the cold mysteries of space, on the origin of Life and on its ephemeral nature. In the saddle of wild riffs and majestic melodies, MARE COGNITUM travel fast with unbridled rage and melancholic abandon through colorful galaxies and placid sea of stars, to reach the boundaries of the Universe and enter the eternal abysses of Nothingness...
And there they rest, finally at home."
Released via I, Voidhanger Records.
Cover art by Luciana Nedelea. Booklet layout by Francesco Gemelli.
Transmissions received in II-0-I-IIII have been fully transcribed. A greater understanding of Citadel Alunar has been achieved.
Aureole and Mare Cognitum express the knowledge they have gathered over the course of 41 minutes. Now available on vinyl and digital.
Cover art by the immensely talented Nightjar Illustration.
Beware that which inhabits the Bell Tower...
Luminiferous Aether (2016)
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A pivotal name in today's atmospheric black metal metal scene, MARE COGNITUM have always had much more to offer than mere ambient-infused black metal riffing. Their previous works, 'Phobos Monolith' (2014) and 'An Extraconscious Lucidity' (2012) showed a pronounced progressive approach to metal, and an unbearable tension that often releases itself in majestic, memorably dark melodies. New album 'Luminiferous Aether' travels across the same astral paths of the past, but with a stronger philosophical vision that permeates both music and lyrics, giving birth to an original cosmic black metal opus that borders on pure sci-fi.
"'Luminiferous Aether' is a mere fragment of a larger contemplation of humanity's state, a reflection of its current position where it finds itself surrounded on all sides and even threatened from within," explains Californian multi-instrumentalist Jacob Buczarski, MARE COGNITUM's sole member. "In the face of an indifferent Universe, the hubris of man dictates that solutions come from self-destruction. The resulting rumination is a binary lamentation and musing on both whether or not and from where we can find hope, and also an investigation into what compels the human spirit to conquer the insurmountable, and to change in a deeper way than the catalyst of evolution would seem to spur."
More violent, nihilistic and intense than its predecessors, MARE COGNITUM's 'Luminiferous Aether' dissects mankind's dark nature and ponders its peculiar impetus for masochism. And by doing so, it glances at a problematic future, at our final destination. "In an attempt to pierce to the core of sentience and its significance," Buczarski concludes, "the light and darkness of man is weighed and considered, and one begins to realize that in all of this, the hourglass of time swiftly empties, marching confidently towards humanity’s inevitable end."
i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com
All music composed, recorded, and produced by Jacob Buczarski at the Lunar Meadow, 2014-2016
Cover painting and logo by Moonroot Art
Layout by Francesco Gemelli
Vinyl edition out late 2016 via Fallen Empire Records:
bandcamp.fallenempirerecords.com
Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers- Astrology of the Nine (2020)
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Veterans from countless successful releases including a seminal split album (“Sol”, 2013) that cemented their friendship and earned them unconditioned esteem and love from the atmospheric black metal aficionados, SPECTRAL LORE's sole member Ayloss and Jacob Buczarski from MARE COGNITUM join forces once again for another mystical trip through the stars. Monumental and daring in its length and scope, "Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine" is a thematic journey through our solar system, illustrating and anthropomorphizing it into mythology which parallels our own humanity with the science of these mysterious formations.
“Inspired by Gustav Holst's Planets suite, we continue the exploration we began many years ago with 'Sol',” explain the artists; “we traverse outwards from the sun to each planet, weaving fables through a synthesis of their distinct physical features and a mythical personhood representing these features.”
Graced with a wondrous cover painting by the inimitable Elijah Tamu, “Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine” is nothing but a never ending quest for mankind's cosmic origins, a celestial and philosophical observation on the notes of MARE COGNITUM and SPECTRAL LORE's music, perfectly in the balance between progressive yet furious black metal, and moments of ecstatic, melodic beauty.
“While we wish to capture the awe of the raw, natural beauty of our cosmic surroundings, we have also created our own cosmically inspired lore with each planet as our muse,” say Ayloss and Buczarski; ”therefore, each track is a narrative which represents our admiration for each cosmic entity: the psychic manifestations that were conjured through our own wonder of the majestic planetary system we call home.”
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Love Metal // Hate Fascism
Solar Paroxysm (2021)
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From the depths of the outer rim to solid footing of green earth, Solar Paroxysm, cosmic black metal entity Mare Cognitum's fifth album proper, finds itself moving from the impossible to the familiar. Now occupying himself with the failures of humankind over the past epoch, Jacob Buczarski's frustrations with humankind and politics find a new voice through five aggressive, metallic songs.
With a more human focus comes a shift in style -- Mare Cognitum sheds layers of cloudy, nebular atmosphere to reveal the exploding star beneath it. With a musician's flourish and mastery of songcraft and his chosen instruments alike, Solar Paroxysm lifts the veil and reveals the true musicianship which has fueled the Mare Cognitum project since its impetus a decade ago. Now suddenly so outwardly truculent and antagonistic does Mare Cognitum reveal its true essence.
Solar Paroxysm releases March 19th on I, Voidhanger Records (CD, LP [EU]) and Extraconscious Records (LP [US]).
All music composed, recorded, and produced by Jacob Buczarski, 2018-2020
Cover painting by Adam Burke. Art direction and layout by Francesco Gemelli.
Jacob Buczarski Everything (2011-present)
See also: Acathexis, Biology, Det Eviga Leendet, Rotbeef, ex-Vessel I (live)
2016 - Mare Cognitum & Aureole - Resonance. Crimson Void/01. Mare Cognitum - Crimson Abyss- NGC 2237.flac
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2016 - Mare Cognitum & Aureole - Resonance. Crimson Void/02. Mare Cognitum - Crimson Abyss- NGC 2238.flac
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2016 - Mare Cognitum & Aureole - Resonance. Crimson Void/03. Aureole - Void Obsidian- NGC 2244.flac
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2016 - Mare Cognitum & Aureole - Resonance. Crimson Void/04. Aureole - Void Obsidian- NGC 2246.flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/01. Spectral Lore - Mercury (The Virtuous).flac
102.17 MB
2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/02. Mare Cognitum - Mars (The Warrior).flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/03. Spectral Lore - Earth (The Mother).flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/04. Mare Cognitum - Venus (The Priestess).flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/05. Mare Cognitum - Jupiter (The Giant).flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/06. Spectral Lore - Saturn (The Rebel).flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/07. Mare Cognitum - Neptune (The Mystic).flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/08. Spectral Lore - Uranus (The Fallen).flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/09. Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Pluto (The Gatekeeper) Part I- Exodus though the Frozen Wastes.flac
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2020 - Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Wanderers - Astrology of the Nine/10. Mare Cognitum, Spectral Lore - Pluto (The Gatekeeper) Part II- The Astral Bridge.flac
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2021 - Solar Paroxysm/01. Antaresian.flac
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2021 - Solar Paroxysm/02. Frozen Star Divinization.flac
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