Thousand Swords, mile stone in the history of Black Metal, and black diamond in history of Graveland. Pure, Unclean Black Metal with elementals of folklore and middle-age music. Recorded in 1994-1995 in the deep forest between howling wolves and dancing witches. The act of pure rebellion against Christianity. The idea of this album was awaking of the ancient spirits of ancestors, to stand with them against the religion of light. With Thousand Swords Graveland started his march to War, war with hypocrisy and false prophets. Riffs and concept of the album has it’s core in music of old Bathory and Emperor, what makes it sound pure but monumental at the same time. For many Thousand Swords is not only classical and best album of Graveland, but one of the most important albums in whole history of Black Metal. First edition of this album was released by Rob Darken’s Isengard Production. This album opened people’s minds for something more, not only new, never done before in a history mixture of black metal essence with influence of old music, but on new character of fight not with weapon but with word and music.
An aptly titled record no matter the language, Naturmystik brings together two modern stalwarts of mystical black metal. HÄXANU - whose acclaimed second album, Totenpass, was released last year by AMOR FATI - is the duo of multi-instrumentalist Alex Poole (Chaos Moon, Krieg, Skáphe, Ringarė, etc) and vocalist/lyricist L.C. of Lichmagick.
Wendul (Wolfsblut & Burkhartsvinter) zeigt hierbei eindrucksvoll das er nicht nur die schnellen Black Metal Klänge spielerisch perfekt in Szene setzt, sondern auch dem Doom-Metal eine majestätische Atmosphäre verleiht.
he Compilation CD contains their 2 first Demos "Invocation of Doom" and "Sadistic Body Rites" from 2013 and also the Songs from the "Rex Judaeorum" Split 7" from 2015. First time on CD limited to 300 copies