This week we explore initiation rites. According to wikipedia:

Initiation is a rite of passage ceremony marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense it can also signify a transformation in which the initiate is ‘reborn’ into a new role.

Moreover, initiation rites have been practiced for many cultures and for a long time. For instance, the ancient Egyptian, the Hebraic/Jewish, the Babylonian, the Mayan, and the Norse cultures all practiced initiation rites.

So, here we have the playlist and the audio:

1. Nox Arcana – Eldritch Rites (Necronomicon)
2. :Golgatha: – Purification (The Waste Land)
3. :Golgatha: – Transmutation (The Waste Land)
4. Profane Grace – Transmutation Of Flesh Into Dreams (Epitaph Of Shattered Dreams)
5. Megaptera – The Passage (Beautiful Chaos)
6. Beneath the Lake – Inside Passage (Inside Passage)
7. Raison D’Etre – Metamorphyses – Phase III (The Luminous Experience)
8. Horologium – Affirmation Ritual (Version) (Tellurian Anthems)
9. Kazeria – Liber Corvus (Liber Corvus)
10. Archon Satani – Ritual Murder (Virgin Birth…(Born Again))
11. :Golgatha: – Epilogue: Sacrisphere (Tales Of Transgression And Sacrifice)
12. Adam Hurst – Ritual (Ritual)
13. Adam Hurst – Metamorphosis (Passages)
14. Melechesh – The Arrival Ritual (Instrumental) (Sphynx)
15. D’Arcadia – Théatre De Satan (I Introitus) (Realitale)
16. D’Arcadia – Théatre De Satan (II Evocation) (Realitale)
17. D’Arcadia – Théatre De Satan (III Initiation) (Realitale)
18. Arcana – the passage (Le Serpent Rouge)
19. :Golgatha: – Passage (Tales Of Transgression And Sacrifice)
20. :Golgatha: – Tunguska (Tales Of Transgression And Sacrifice)
21. Dead Can Dance – Yulunga (Spirit Dance) (Best)
22. Nox Arcana – Ritual Of Summoning (Necronomicon)

Between Birds of Prey #61 – Initiation Rites.mp3

Between Birds of Prey #61 – Initiation Rites.cue