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There are three new test pressing editions. Please note these are NOT available from the Coptic Cat online shop. An email must be sent to Coptic Cat:  with ‘Test pressings’ in the subject line. Payment will be made directly to David Tibet by PayPal or by UK£ cheque.

In the case of ‘Like Swallowing Eclipses’ and ‘Baalstorm, Sing Omega’, please choose which piece you would like from this page.

1: Like Swallowing Eclipses 6LP box set

• £418 each
• limited to 6 copies
• contains 6 white label test pressings of the 6 albums in the box set with handwritten labels by David
• also contains a black A3 piece of paper with original images by David Tibet used as artwork for the front and back cover of the box set, as well as for the LP sleeves and labels of the 6 records inside the box. See these pages online here. Please choose the page you want from those available.
• housed in plain wooden black box
• ALL 6 COPIES HAVE NOW BEEN SOLD

2: Baalstorm, Sing Omega

• £93 each
• limited to 39 hand numbered and signed copies
• contains the white label black vinyl test pressing with labels handwritten by David in Coptic and English
• each copy comes in the original white disco bag in which I received it
• each sleeve has the title and name of group handwritten in English and Coptic
• each copy comes with a printed-out A4 page of the original lyrics which I used in the studio; there are handwritten corrections, crossings out and occasionally a drink stain! There are 39 sheets: pages 1–38 are of the text/lyrics and are blank on the other side; page 39 is written on the back of a printout A4 of the C93 ‘FAUST’ booklet and on the other side has only handwritten notes working out the dedication of the album to the 4 women who inspired ‘Baalstorm, Sing Omega’, plus some other text about samples used and some Coptic text. See these pages online here. Please choose the page you want from those available.

3: Haunted Waves, Moving Graves

• £222 each
• limited to 39 hand numbered and signed copies
• all-white picture disc test pressing—ie, this is a picture disc but it only has blank white ‘pictures’ instead of a printed image
• each copy comes in the original white disco bag in which I received it
• each sleeve has the title and name of group handwritten in English and Coptic
• each copy will come with a black paper A4 sheet on which is drawn a 7 inch circular image, in the style of the images for HAUNTED WAVES, MOVING GRAVES CD. Each drawing will be made individually by myself and will consist of the name of the individual who has ordered the record (or the individual for whom the record has been ordered) and a Gnostic verse chosen written by me continually in Hallucinatory Patripassianist form. The piece will then be signed and dedicated on the back. The text that makes up the two images shown here, the front and back of the HAUNTED WAVES, MOVING GRAVES, consist of the title of each track written continuously in Hallucinatory Patripassianist form—‘The Sound of the Storm was Spears’ and ‘She is Naked like the Water’, respectively.