Black Metal

NEFARIOUS SPIRIT and VOID PRAYER to release split album via GOATOWAREX

On December 1st internationally, Goatowarex is proud to present a special split album between Nefarious Spirit and Void Prayer on vinyl LP format.

A momentous meeting, fully utilizing the intrinsic value of a split release (compared to so much throwaway garbage otherwise characterizing most “split releases”), this six-song/34-minute communion brings together one upstart entity and one prolific force, both equally clandestine in their respective black metal magick, and featuring fully exclusive songs from both hordes. With but a demo from 2016 to their name, Nefarious Spirit are a shadowy newcomer hailing from Greece, their membership so far unknown. Regardless, they lead off this split LP with two conjurings of stout, hammering militancy, their riffing cryogenic yet paradoxically exuding a burning fire; they also prove their physicality with a live track here. With one pulsing wave after another, Nefarious Spirit altogether evoke a timeless sort of tension and terror, harkening back to black metal’s far-more-secretive days. Similarly, Void Prayer have astutely and studiously explored that era of black metal – first, prolifically under the moniker of Cave Ritual from 2012-17, and more recently under their current moniker across two demos and a modern-classic album, 2017’s Stillbirth From the Psychotic Void. Of course, those well versed in the modern black metal underground will recognize Void Prayer as part of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s ever-vital Black Plague Circle, so their three songs here should be mandatory listening for that collective’s fervent followers. And hearing their contributions here – deliriously, devilishly melodic, swirling into a sumptuous vortex of atmosphere and agony, emotion and ecstasy – it’s no wonder Void Prayer have garnered attention beyond diehard circles.

Ending all life with sombre finality, Void Prayer and Nefarious Spirit will equally instill possession with this split album courtesy of the Goatowarex stronghold, fittingly executed on noble vinyl to the label’s strictest, highest standards.

Ordering information can be found HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Nefarious Spirit / Void Prayer split album
SIDE Nefarious Spirit
A1. Haunted Skulls – Demise of the Holy
A2. Destructive Impulses
A3. Nefarious Spirit (live)

SIDE Void Prayer
B1. Void Seeker
B2. To Become [Black Cilice cover]
B3. Prayers Null and Void
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Depressive black metal pioneers Nocturnal Depression premiere new track

Today, depressive black metal pioneers Nocturnal Depression premiere the new track “Living in a Mass Grave”. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated ninth album, Tides of Despair, set for international release on November 25th via Sun & Moon Records.

Hear Nocturnal Depression‘s “Living in a Mass Grave” in its entirety here:
French masters of nostalgic, depressive black metal, Nocturnal Depression return with their latest opus, the ever-aptly-titled Tides of Despair. A special occasion to say the very least, 2019 sees the return of Herr Suizid, founding member of the band who left in 2012, rejoining with fellow founder Lord Lokhraed. As a result, Tides of Despair has all the elements which make Nocturnal Depression stand out from all the thousands of cliche DSBM pretenders, many of whom were inspired by the band’s pioneering early works in the mid-2000s: immediately memorable riffs, achingly melodic leads, dramatic tension, and altogether dynamic songwriting.
  Surprisingly, Tides of Despair begins in quite a positive manner – but deceptively so, as Nocturnal Depression soon embark on a gloomy, atmospheric journey, guiding the listener onward into an exhaustingly emotional turmoil. Claustrophobic somberness comes to a climax on the perfectly titled “Living in a Mass Grave,” forlorn acoustic moments abound, despair and depression suitably mark songs like “Solitude and Despair Again” and “Farewell Letter,” epic gloom in “Muse of Suicide,” and all concluding with the bleak and melancholic “Reveries.” Throughout, the surprises continue with the integration of French horn, pianos, chimes, and bells, with a multitude of guests from different bands (Psychonaut 4, Sarkrista, Tulpa, Darkend, Selvans) making the album even more refreshing.   Completed by mixing & mastering courtesy of Alessandro “Algol” Comerio from Forgotten Tomb/Hiems, Nocturnal Depression prove with Tides of Despair that both the past is alive and the future is bleak!

Preorder info can be found HERE.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Nocturnal Depression’s Tides of Despair
1. Drowning Myself
2. Tides of Despair
3. Living in a Mass Grave
4. Solitude and Despair Again
5. Slit My Wrists
6. Farewell Letter
7. Muse of Suicide
8. Reveries

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JORDABLOD set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces January 24th, 2020 as the international release date for Jordablod‘s highly anticipated second album, The Cabinet of Numinous Song, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It was but 2017 when Jordablod burst from the void, fully formed, with their bold ‘n’ visionary debut album, Upon My Creation Pyre, courtesy of Iron Bonehead. A seemingly simple goal, the Swedish trio aimed to assemble the finest fragments of music and noise from all corners of the world, resulting in a grand diversity, but always maintaining the deepest awe for the core elements of black metal and death metal in its thematic and lyrical aspects. And indeed did Upon My Creation Pyre accomplish that, and then some: a work written in fire and ash, delivered with innermost devotion and passion. It was the documentation of a journey through mystical experience, from the initial touch by the divine, through ritual and meditations, to the ultimate initiation that is the cremation pyre.

Thus, if their debut was the death of the flesh but the liberation of the spirit, Jordablod find further resolution and wisdom within the spectral expanses of The Cabinet of Numinous Song. Duly titled, The Cabinet of Numinous Song weaves together fanciful-yet-frazzled threads of seemingly disparate frequencies, from hypnotically hovering black metal to sensually shimmering post-punk, from gnarled ‘n’ gnashing death metal to plaintive ‘n’ pastoral loner-folk. Far from a schizophrenic mess, Jordablod wield an elusive and profuse sort of magick – a sonic alchemy, if you will – that allows them to firmly/gently guide the listener across alien terrain, the album’s seven songs each a landscape unto itself but comingling and coalescing into a grand tapestry that’s truly Numinous Song. In fact, the album’s 42-minute runtime reaches so deeply into the soul that you’d mistake this Cabinet for being both far shorter and far longer than that…

From the opening “A Grand Unveiling” to the closing “To Bleed Gold,” from “The Two Wings of Becoming” to “The Beauty of Every Wound,” Jordablod successively expand the consciousness and celebrate the renewing powers of transformation. More impossibly dazzling than ever, eclipsing the definition of “bold” and going beyond it, here resides The Cabinet of Numinous Song.

Enter the Cabinet with the brand-new track “The Beauty of Every Wound” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Jordablod’s The Cabinet of Numinous Song
1. A Grand Unveiling
2. The Two Wings Of Becoming
3. Hin Ondes Mystär
4. The Beauty Of Every Wound
5. Blood And Rapture
6. The Cabinet Of Numinous Song
7. To Bleed Gold
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LURKER OF CHALICE to release demos collection through NUCLEAR WAR NOW!, reveals first track

Today, Nuclear War Now! Productions sets March 1st, 2020 as the international release date for a special demos collection/reimagining from the enigmatic Lurker of Chalice. Titled Tellurian Slaked Furnace, it shall be released on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Active from 2001-2005, the highly revered side-project of Leviathan’s Jef Whitehead, Lurker of Chalice, is mostly known for the 2005 self-titled full-length. Prior to that album, however, Wrest recorded two CD-R demos under the Lurker of Chalice name, each of which was limited to approximately 50 copies or less and sold at a single record store in San Francisco, near where he was living at the time. Like the full-length, both demos were eponymous, though the first demo was identified only by the initials “L.O.C.” written in runes. While a few of the songs from the demo era bear indicia of black metal, the material from that period is generally far more experimental, defying any effort to be neatly categorized.

For Tellurian Slaked Furnace, Wrest has distilled the best material from the early period of the project and edited, collaged, and compiled it, weaving together something more coherent and album-like. In this way, there seems to be something of his current artistic sensibility projected onto these recordings from nearly two decades earlier.

In keeping with the confusing taxonomy of the project, the tracks on this LP are unnamed. The album opens with a song previously called “Lurker of Chalice” on the 2002 demo but is untitled on this release. The song showcases the haunting minimalism of Lurker of Chalice as slow acoustic guitars revolve around one another, arpeggiated chords ringing out above percussive accents. With the second track, a more sinister energy emerges, advanced by the first and only appearance of Wrest’s seething vocals.

Over the full, 70-minute duration of this album, the music, almost completely instrumental, expands and contracts, evolves and disintegrates. Delicate ambient passages and labyrinthine excursions give way to electronic dirges of lumbering percussion with guitar shimmering transcendent above a melancholic lake of atmospheric sound and cascading sheets of electronics dissolving into lush acoustic melodies. Only very rarely do heavy riffs emerge; compared with Wrest’s work in Leviathan, or even the Lurker of Chalice album, the metal elements are far less direct and overt. Instead, this album conjures a bleak, unsettling mood without resorting to the compositional trappings of black metal. The music, which strangely seems both intensely personal, yet also detached and cinematic, evokes a palpable sense of solitude—the disconsolate reckoning of the self in the absence of others.

The release of Tellurian Slaked Furnace marks the first time any of the Lurker of Chalice demo recordings have been reissued and also offers a substantial amount of previously unheard material.

Hear “IV,” one of those previously unheard tracks, here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Lurker of Chalice’s Tellurian Slaked Furnace
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
7. VII
8. VIII
9. IX
10. X
11. XI
12. XII
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Reanimated Finnish black metal cult Black Beast stream the entirety of their LONG-awaited debut album, Nocturnal Bloodlust

Today, reanimated Finnish black metal cult Black Beast stream the entirety of their LONG-awaited debut album, Nocturnal Bloodlust . Set for international release on November 8th via Primitive Reaction, hear Black Beast‘s Nocturnal Bloodlust in its entirety here:
Formed in the dark days of 2002, Black Beast made their public debut in 2005 with a self-titled 7″ EP. Back then, the band’s native black metal underground was making an international name for itself, and has since established itself as one of black metal’s most immediately identifiable idioms, not to mention one of the most enduring. The Black Beast EP introduced the duo with violent, vulgar aplomb, slotting well alongside their erstwhile Finnish contemporaries and yet exhibiting a refreshingly Motorheaded aspect (or at least one Venomous). They quickly capitalized on that enviable momentum with an even stronger showing the next year on a split album with comrades Bloodhammer, which was the first release by a then-young Primitive Reaction. Then, nothing…the Black Beast name sadly receded into the shadows.

Alas, bad habits die hard and ugliness is forever, and at long last, Black Beast deliver a full-length recording. Aptly titled Nocturnal Bloodlust, the now-trio’s debut album picks up exactly where they left off with the Bloodhammer split LP – as if an unlucky 13 years hadn’t passed – and then pumps the shocking waste full of narcotics and, yes, nocturnal bloodlust. Charging hard, giving no quarter, Black Beast whip forth an infinitely headbanging fury here, a resolutely asskicking Motorcharge that’s nevertheless not short on atmosphere. It’s purely and proudly all-caps BLACK METAL – after all, are they not monikered Black Beast? – and poignantly proves that, sometimes, the most singleminded focus yields the most gripping results.

Indeed, Nocturnal Bloodlust possesses a grip of near-anthems (eight total, as well as a show-opening “Prelude” banger); by “near,” we make clear that the band do NOT write “hits” for “the fans” or crowd approval or other dumb bullshit. Rather, Black Beast offer unyielding obeisance to Satan, as all true black metal should, and declare as much on the album’s final two tracks, “Fist of the Devil” and “Symbol for My Devotion.” Through it all, the album exudes a raw-yet-robust production, thick and viscous but just as equally emitting space and shade, ably highlighting that this recording does, in fact, feature actual humans playing actual music – not cut ‘n’ paste computer crap, like so much nowadays “extreme metal.”

Older, uglier, but just as hungry as the far-more-unforgiving days of the black metal underground from which they spawned, Black Beast have returned to claim their rightful dark throne with Nocturnal Bloodlust! Step fully forward to that throne exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com.

The album-release gig shall take place at the SteelChaos festival November 8-9th in Helsinki, Finland. Also on the same release date shall Unholy Finnish Black Horror Union, the aforementioned split album with Bloodhammer, shall be reissued by Primitive Reaction on CD and, for the first time ever, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats.

Cover and tracklisting for Nocturnal Bloodlust are as follows: 
Tracklisting for Black Beast (Finland)’s Nocturnal Bloodlust
1. Prelude
2. Black Seremony
3. Riding on Wings of Death
4. Your Cold Grave
5. Words of Leviathan
6. Unholy One
7. Nocturnal Bloodlust
8. Fist of the Devil
9. Symbol for My Devotion
BLACK BEAST lineup 2019
Infernal Tormentor Necrocorpse von Demonblood – vocals
Ruumisruhtinas – guitars & bass
Lord Sipilä – drums

IN OBSCURITY REVEALED set release date for BLOOD HARVEST debut album, reveal first tracks

Today, Blood Harvest Records sets December 13th as the international release date for In Obscurity Revealed‘s highly anticipated debut album, Glorious Impurity, on CD and cassette tape formats. The 12″ vinyl version shall follow on January 31st, 2020.

It was but 2016 when we last heard from In Obscurity Revealed, and reveal did the Mexican quartet a throttling two-song 7″ for Blood Harvest aptly titled Grim Fumes of Revelation. Now, at long last, arrives an equally aptly titled debut album: Glorious Impurity. Retaining the same rudiments as that preceding quick strike, In Obscurity Revealed‘s first full-length is a nine-song/37-minute plunge into ancient sulfur. Rabid and roiling, their blackened death metal (or is that deathened black metal?) breathes the madness of their southern climes whilst honoring a host of international influences. It’s warfare noise that bears sadistic intent as it crosses the chasm into the cenotaph, as these four maniacs explode forth with scabrous, raw, yet clearly articulated darkness ‘n’ distress. Fierce and feral and imbued with an occult aura, Glorious Impurity is everything its title portends, and ominously more. Perhaps a cursory reading of the album’s component song titles – “Our Crimson Madness,” “Beast and Serpent,” and “Congress Cum Rampage” are but a few – more colorfully elucidates its content…

Step into the ritual chamber or engage in sexual carnage, it matters not – only the Glorious Impurity brazenly engaged in and vulgarly revealed by In Obscurity Revealed!

Take the first steps into that ritual chamber with the new tracks “Our Crimson Madness” and “Pestilent Breath” here:
Preorder info can be found HERE. 
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for In Obscurity Revealed’s Glorious Impurity
1. Our Crimson Madness
2. Coven Maleficia
3. Dismay
4. Beast And Serpent
5. Thy Temple Fire
6. Congress Cum Rampage
7. Pestilent Breath
8. Abhorrent Coffins
9. Closing Victory

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German black metal mavericks Krater premiere new track

Today, German black metal mavericks Krater premiere the new track “Zwischen den Worten“ The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated fourth album, Venenare, set for North American release on November 15th via Eisenwald. Hear Krater‘s”Zwischen den Worten” in its entirety HERE:

Germany’s KRATER premiere new track at NoCleanSinging.com

A study in patience and progress, Krater formed in 2003. In the band’s earliest days – across two demos, two splits, and 2006’s debut album, Das Relikt des Triumphes – the Krater sound tended more toward pagan black metal, but powerfully so. Come 2008, however, a period of silence and self-reflection followed…

When at last those sounds arrived, Krater had taken on a new form: one partly tied to their earlier traditionalism, another more so modernized. This burst-chrysalis came in the shape of 2011’s Nocebo, and following yet another lineup shake-up, 2016’s masterful Urere, courtesy of current label home Eisenwald. However, with these still-poignant albums as the foundation, Krater have now delivered their magnum opus with Venenare.

A 50-minute work broken into nine songs but unified as one winding, widescreen composition, Venenare shows Krater at the height of their all-too-considerable powers, a blinding and windswept vortex of sumptuous songcraft and passionate execution. Motifs slice and dice, blast and race with a grace that’s simply stunning, as melodic counterplay runs riot with a proud ‘n’ powerful assertion of classic metal sensibility. Krater‘s contours here undeniably exude a sleek and urban quality, but with abstracted hints of their pagan past subtly woven in to the soundfield, the result is staunchly second-wave black metal bravely recast for the 21st century. Venenare is thus timeless, yet forward-thinking all the same.

With cover artwork courtesy of Misanthropic-Art and mixing & mastering handled by Esoteric’s Greg Chandler, Krater have gone full-force to deliver a great work for the ages with Venenare. The only hurdle is resisting its spellbinding pull…

Also try resisting the previously revealed “Stellar Sparks” exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel magazine.

Preorder info can be found HERE.

Aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Krater (Germany)’s Venenare
1. Eruption
2. Prayer for Demise
3. Zwischen den Worten
4. Stellar Sparks
5. When Thousand Hearts
6. Atmet Asche
7. No Place for You
8. Darvaza Breeds
9. Wasted Carbon

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REVENANT MARQUIS set release date for new INFERNA PROFUNDUS album, reveal first track

Today, Inferna Profundus Records sets January 20th, 2020 as the international release date for Revenant Marquis’ highly anticipated fourth album, Youth in Ribbons, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from the United Kingdom, Revenant Marquis is a mysterious yet incredibly prolific entity. Having just revealed its first public work in 2018, the aptly titled Pitiless Black Emphasis album, two more full-lengths quickly followed, Polterngyst and Anti Universal Compassion, both in 2019. This trifecta of albums displayed a restless ghoul firmly in the grips of the rawest black metal possession, but dispensing with terror and truth with almost preternatural ease. Now making a blood pact with Inferna Profundus, Revenant Marquis adds to that canon of foulness with Youth in Ribbons.

Challenging and defiant, once more does Revenant Marquis return from the sequestered black waters of Wales with Youth in Ribbons: a long-play collection of raw black metal necromancy that serves to bring the tortured, the forgotten, and the abused back from the choking abyss. There is no space for hope nor light in this assembly of rituals, as the listener must break bread with the maligned forces that lurk eternally waiting for granted passage. This is not music, but rather a covenant between the listener and the spectral realm.

As such, riffs seemingly slice the listener’s skin yet retain an elusive, almost-ethereal quality. There is power and propulsion here, too, but never does it feel like rote “violence” for its own sake; rather, any physicality or momentum is upended into a hypnotic disconnect that keeps that listener enthralled – literally, in thrall to Revenant Marquis’ diabolic conjurations. The title itself, Youth in Ribbons, is quite telling of the virtual deflowering at hand here, debasing the listener with ever-apparent ‘n’ arrogant disregard for comfort. A suffocating netherworld, beckoning ever so tantalizingly…indeed, “The Incorporeal Hallways.”

UK black metal is continually being renewed, continually cycling through new generations of devotees – and pretenders. Revenant Marquis cares not for contemporaries, neither domestically nor abroad; only the experience of black metal’s most sacred sensations matter. With Youth in Ribbons, figuratively and again literally, Revenant Marquis dares you to discover the profound and the profane in that experience.

Dare with the brand-new track “Ephebiphobia” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Revenant Marquis’ Youth in Ribbons
1. Menstruation
2. Ephebiphobia
3. Ephebophilic Wraith
4. Grave Lit Transmogrification
5. Ysgol
6. The Blood of Lady Tasker
7. The Bones of Lady Tasker
8. Taskermilward
9. The Incorporeal Hallways
10. Propagator of an Unspeakable Incestuous Coven
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HAVOHEJ stream long-awaited new HELLS HEADBANGERS album

Today, legendary iconoclast Havohej stream its long-awaited third album, Table of Uncreation. Set for international release on November 15th via Hells Headbangers, hear Havohej‘s Table of Uncreation in its entirety HERE:
There has never been another artist quite like Havohej. Perhaps Beherit, but whereas that band’s Holocausto Vengeance reveled in primitivism and eventually flipped the script with little to no warning, sole Havohej visionary Paul Ledney has studiously pursued the outer limits of BEYOND-black metal, patiently utilizing primitivism as a foundation to explore esoteric vibrations ‘n’ undercurrents only the most tweaked of ears are in tune to. Of course, the name Paul Ledney should be well known in the underground from his preceding Profanatica, but Havohejis the man’s vision alone, and it is a vision that’s massive and miasmic to behold.

Each Havohej release has been a world unto itself, even when those worlds fall within the remit of an EP release. The band’s earliest releases – the Unholy Darkness and Impurity EP and Dethrone the Son of God full-length, both from 1993 – essentially took the characteristic Profanatica template and proceeded to make it even more primitive. But, it was 1994’s landmark Black Perversion EP where Havohej took black metal to the hinterlands of unorthodoxy, sublimating conventional “black metal” instrumentation into a suffocating slab of transcendental foulness. That same year, Ledney released the Black Mist EP, which further separated itself from black metal convention by being an eerily minimalist expression of electronic ritualism.

Although a period of quiet mystery followed, in 2000 did Havohej release the volcanic Man and Jinn EP, which feature a brand-new track and intro alongside totally revolutionized covers of Venom and Impaled Nazarene, in essence reclaiming the source material and making it undeniably Ledney-esque. Following that EP, a revitalized Profanatica became Ledney’s focus for the next number of years, until 2007 and 2008 revealed a pair of EPs – Tungkat Blood Wand and Hornbrook Seytan, respectively, both released by Hells Headbangers – which showed Havohej stripping down the Black Perversion aesthetic to a crude ‘n’ crushing sort of black-doom drone. In 2009 did Kembatinan Premaster arrive courtesy of Hells Headbangers; across this stratifying full-length did Ledney largely recombine the previous Havohej records into an utterly devastating form of bestial black metal far, far removed from (and superior to) the “bestial metal” resurgence that was just taking shape.

Ever the iconoclast, Ledney brings back Havohej a whole ten years later with yet another defiant, shapeshifting form: Table of Uncreation, his third album under the banner. Exploring the seemingly wide divide between space and suffocation, here does Ledney draw the two together into a mesmerizing, monged-out subversion of black metal into simply BLACK. Traces of the entire Havohej aesthetic are well represented here on Table of Uncreation, and then spliced ‘n’ diced into juddering panoramas of primitive sonic filth. Truly, Ledney pierces the veil of forbidden forces only revealed to the blackest and most depraved of minds, as Table of Uncreation indeed lives up to its namesake and aborts “black metal” convention and instead vomits forth a crude, caustic, yet exceptionally nuanced type of undead birth. It’s as blasphemous as Ledney’s legendary work in Profanatica, but defiles tradition with an evil avant-garde touch that is Havohej‘s alone.

Quite simply, there’s very little, past and especially present, that can be compared to Havohej. While Ledney could’ve certainly left his legacy intact and left the name in permanent hiatus, with Table of Uncreation does he continue to challenge even the hardiest and hardened ears – and defiles them forevermore. Long live Havohej, and may it continue to die exquisite deaths.

Preorder info can be found HERE at Hells Headbangers‘ Bandcamp.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Havohej’s Table of Uncreation
1. God of All Constellaion
2. Holy Blood, Holy Grail
3. The Black King
4. Seven Jinn
5. Impossible Force
6. Table of Uncreation
7. All Time Is Now
8. Before Them and Behind Them
9. Fatir
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DIE KUNST DER FINSTERNIS stream new LAMECH / AMOR FATI album

Today, horror metallers Die Kunst der Finsternis stream the entirety of their highly anticipated third album, Revenant in a Phantom World (Queen of Owls Addendum), here:
Vampiric in singleminded intent, draped in black shining leather, here does Die Kunst der Finsternis continue its inexorable ascent, its glorious rebirth into more muscular and dynamic directions. Forever a forgotten soul lost in space and time, Revenant in a Phantom World (Queen of Owls Addendum) is experimentation and expressionism writ large, dark poetry of the night rendered in its most robust form. Set for international release on October 31st via Lamech Records in conspiracy with Amor Fati Productions, hear Die Kunst der Finsternis‘ Revenant in a Phantom World (Queen of Owls Addendum) in its above.

Die Kunst der Finsternis was formed as a solo project in the beginning of 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden with Deacon D. (AKA Schattenriss) as the sick mind behind it; the man has a prolific recording history, within the well-respected Hetroertzen and without. The first demo under the Die Kunst der Finsternis banner, tellingly titled Alter Schwarz Metall, was recorded at home during March 2007, in Stockholm, Sweden and given away as a gift exclusively to close friends and peers. A couple of years later, the Swedish occult label SDP distributed a limited stock of 66 handmade CDs of the demo.

In 2010, Deacon D. creates the songs and lyrics for the first Die Kunst der Finsternis full-length, henceforth called Das Geheimnis des Vampirs, with nine tracks of dark and sickening Metal of Death with gothic horror parts as interludes, which also includes the re-recorded songs from the demo. The obsession with death and the horrors of the crypt literally takes Die Kunst der Finsternis to the grave and keep it buried (but not forgotten) for the coming years.

In 2017, an exhumation is performed and new life is blown into the old rotten body of Die Kunst der Finsternis, somehow bringing it “back to life” and giving it the breath to create all the pieces for the Queen of Owls album. An Addendum of Queen of Owls is added later on, putting another gravestone in the cemetery of the odd arts. The band’s third full-length, it bears the title Revenant in a Phantom World (Queen of Owls Addendum) and once again, louder and more powerfully than ever, proclaims that Die Kunst Der Finsternis performs Horror Metal exclusively!

Cover art, courtesy of Deacon D., and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Die Kunst der Finsternis’
Revenant in a Phantom World (Queen of Owls Addendum)
1. Carnival of the Undead
2. Grotesque
3. Madame Tuberculosis
4. Raised from Decay
5. Chasing Bleached Memories
6. The End of Time – Miseria
7. Exhumation
8. Neophobic Delirium
9. Vampirismus
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