Since their formation in 2007, MINENWERFER have pursued a proud 'n' pure vision of black metal idiosyncratically focused on World War I - idiosyncratic, in the sense that the band hail from America but mostly sing in German. What has resulted is a startlingly accomplished canon that has quietly built itself into prolific proportions, with their first album arriving in 2010, followed by albums in 2012 and 2019, and a slew of split releases and EPs in the interim.
That second album, Nihilistischen, took a moodier turn from MINENWERFER's throttling debut album, Volkslieder. But while a relative expansion of dynamics made their songs sound even more epic, the duo likewise upped the muscle to their attack, arriving at a thicker soundfield than that no-less-considerable predecessor. What results is a work equally steeped in the ugly underground and the yonder battlefields of professionalism.
Re-issue, 298x gold with black marble effect 12" (180g) in a black poly-lined bag, download card, gatefold jacket full color on 350g, all assembled in a plastic overbag.
The Dragging Poison is not an attempt at innovation—it is a statement of devotion. A poisoned chalice offered to those who still revere the cold, untamed essence of Black Metal as it once was: uncompromising, ritualistic, and unburdened by modernity.
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.