This split album brings together two entities - one quite prolific, the other brand-new - in the oft-overlooked UK black metal scene. ÚLFARR's name should be more than familiar to those who follow UKBM as well as the crimes of PURITY THROUGH FIRE, for mainman Dominus released the band's debut album through the label in late 2019. Now joined by vocalist Jatvardr, the reinvigorated ÚLFARR quickly whip forth a cold fury on their four exclusive tracks here. Like the '90s never ended, the duo staunchly stick to traditional black metal - no more, but definitely no less - and still come recommended for maniacs of classic Darkthrone and early Ancient. MALFEITOR follow next with four exclusive tracks of their own. The band is the work of one Nosdrahcir, who also numbers the equally-new Wretched Malediction among his current endeavors. Here, MALFEITOR exhibit a comparable grimness, but work with a more measured pace as well as a melancholic melodicism. While making the UK their home, the band's stylistic location would most certainly be Finland, of which PURITY THROUGH FIRE has had a sizable hand in fostering, as exemplified by MALUM, SARKRISTA, GOATS OF DOOM, SACRIFICIM CARMEN, KRYPTAMOK, RIIVAUS, LICHT DES URTEILS, AESTHUS, and many, MANY others. Raise the banners for UKBM!
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.
Wampyric Rites is evoked from his deep sleep in the anno MMXIX by three ghostly entities inside the desolate dungeons covered by the dust of time and drinking from the chalice the ecstasy of the ancient spirit of Black Metal and Old School Dungeon Synth resulting in his first work called Demo I.
Originally released in various limited editions since early 2019, Burning Banners of the Funereal War began the saga that is WARMOON LORD. Arguably the best-kept secret of the ever-fertile Finnish black metal underground, the band is the sole work of one Lord Vrajitor, a prolific figure in the wider Finnish music underground, but also concurrently the mainman of Old Sorcery. But whereas that band largely/mostly works within the dungeon synth genre, WARMOON LORD is pure & proud black metal of a most fantastical nature - equally medieval, maybe even more so, but burning with icy-hot passion that so fired the second wave during the mythical 1990s.
Black marble effect 12" (180g) in a microtene innerbag, printed innersleeve on 220g, download card, jacket - black flooded inside, 350g with matte lamination and UV spot lacquer, all assembled in a PVC overbag.
Svekkelse is the sixth full-length album from the Trondheim based black metal band Gjendød. The second album as a three-piece. Svekkelse continues where the previous album Livskramper quit, but this time, the band has turned it all up a notch. The band never worked with their compositions with such an intensity before.