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.
And so did Burning Banners of the Funereal War slowly stoke those fires, which then reached a conflagration with WARMOON LORD's second album, Battlespells, released in 2021 by WEREWOLF RECORDS to widespread acclaim. Feeling duty call, WEREWOLF now presents a long-overdue widely-available edition of Burning Banners of the Funereal War on both CD and vinyl formats. However strong Battlespells may be, WARMOON LORD's debut album is surely its equal in vigor and valor; cold and grim, to be sure, the subtly synth-led Burning Banners of the Funereal War brims with a stately and steadfast classicism that transports the listener back at least 25 years, to days when black metal began descending deeper underground. An essential spin, then, for criminals and counts, orks and vampires - the not-so-distant past is alive!
Heavyweight black 12" (180g) in a microtene innerbag, printed innersleeve, 1/0 K on 220g carton (uncoated paper) download card, jacket, 1/1 K/K - black flood inside, printed on 350g carton, uncoated (matt) paper with UV spot lacquer, all assembled in a plastic overbag.
Limited edition of Behemoth's Antichristian Phenomenon presented on red/blue splatter-effect vinyl, with all seven of its tracks compiled together for the first time on the format.
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.