Comes in a 6-panel digipack w/ a 6-page booklet. "Stella Pandora", the impassioned and anthemic 8th album from ARKONA, finds the formidable Polish Black Metal pioneers supremely focused, superbly intense and aflame with melodic vigour. Since their 1993 formation ARKONA have progressively fine-tuned and elevated their sound, and this follow-up to 2019's acclaimed "Age of Capricorn" advances the band further still, as they imbue each phrase with a sense of existential yearning - a wistful awareness of the past dying inside the present.
Watzmannsage: Watzmann, rabid, full of rage, crimson blood flowing in his veins. Disgorged of his dark gorge, the revelations of his bloodthirsty years. The wicked creatures stretched high in the Bavarian Alps, turning into cliffs and stones, towering into the sky shrouded in deadly nebulae, covered in snow. The new „VVatzmannsage“ EP is out. V hymns compiled from the first EP of Drudensang and the „Teufelsspuk und Alpenraunen“ Split in an new version.
The second and final nuclear attack from BGC written mostly by Sabbaoth and Virrugus before their untimely passing. Merciless bestial black metal as only members of Blasphemy, Goatpenis and Antichrist can create.
The band draws inspiration from the dark and swampy Swedish forests to create a combination of old school black metal and the horrific aspects of Scandinavian folklore