Pa Vesh En

Today, Belarusian enigma Pa Vesh En streams the entirety of its highly anticipated fourth album, Martyrs. Set for international release on May 19th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Pa Vesh En‘s Martyrs in its entirety here:

Forming in 2017, the mysterious Belarusian entity known as Pa Vesh En promptly built a formidable discography, all under the aegis of Iron Bonehead. But after nine total records during its first three years of existence (including two albums) which explored the fringe elements of DSBM, it was 2021’s full-length Maniac Manifest where the otherwise-unnamed mainman began to open up his black metal to wider, wilder possibilities. Still emphatically embodying the sound of total and utter emptiness, Pa Vesh En showed a startling violence that only deepened his characteristic chasm of uncomfort.

Suitably, silence followed for once, but surely Pa Vesh En was restless behind those shadows, brewing his most unsettling record yet – and so it arrives with Martyrs. Split into three acts, Martyrs bears some aesthetic/thematic resemblances to the shocking French-Canadian film of the same name, but as the opening gambit of “A Vigilian Impending Murk” and “The House of Pain” quickly proves, Pa Vesh En is operating on an entirely different wavelength. That wavelength surely carries forward the undulating violence of its predecessor – rippling, roiling, and nearly bestial, with just as much (if not more) muscle to spare – but as Martyrs plays on and that violence begins to reverberate upon itself, ghostly textures arise from that murk and take on new, undead life. Are they synths? Church bells? Actual disembodied voices? Who can say, really… Truly, Pa Vesh En has taken to that far-more-Alpha surge brazenly displayed on Maniac Manifest, but here deftly (and densely) layers his creations with a swarm of sounds that seemingly come from every direction, which becomes all the more disorienting and disturbing when the tempos begin to accelerate and disintegrate at will. And survive long enough into Martyrs and one will hear the Belarusian loner’s melodicism rend the saddest notes from a still-bleeding heart…and an ethereal female voice bringing the album to a climactic close.

If one’s conception of Pa Vesh En is still based upon the band’s earlier works, then Martyrs will provocatively – and irrevocably – rearrange those coordinates, and those of your very soul.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Pa Vesh En’s Martyrs
Act I – Vigilia
1. A Vigilian Impending Murk
2. The House Of Pain
3. In The Torment Cell
 
Act II – Liturgy
4. The Revenant’s Overture
5. Among A Stir Of Echoes
6. Following The Pestilent Maiden
 
Act III – Emanation
7. When The Lights Out
8. The Carnival Of Eerie Souls
9. Le Fantôme De Cette Madame

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces May 19th as the international release date for Pa Vesh En‘s highly anticipated fourth album, Martyrs, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Forming in 2017, the mysterious Belarusian entity known as Pa Vesh En promptly built a formidable discography, all under the aegis of Iron Bonehead. But after nine total records during its first three years of existence (including two albums) which explored the fringe elements of DSBM, it was 2021’s full-length Maniac Manifest where the otherwise-unnamed mainman began to open up his black metal to wider, wilder possibilities. Still emphatically embodying the sound of total and utter emptiness, Pa Vesh En showed a startling violence that only deepened his characteristic chasm of uncomfort.

Suitably, silence followed for once, but surely Pa Vesh En was restless behind those shadows, brewing his most unsettling record yet – and so it arrives with Martyrs. Split into three acts, Martyrs bears some aesthetic/thematic resemblances to the shocking French-Canadian film of the same name, but as the opening gambit of “A Vigilian Impending Murk” and “The House of Pain” quickly proves, Pa Vesh En is operating on an entirely different wavelength. That wavelength surely carries forward the undulating violence of its predecessor – rippling, roiling, and nearly bestial, with just as much (if not more) muscle to spare – but as Martyrs plays on and that violence begins to reverberate upon itself, ghostly textures arise from that murk and take on new, undead life. Are they synths? Church bells? Actual disembodied voices? Who can say, really… Truly, Pa Vesh En has taken to that far-more-Alpha surge brazenly displayed on Maniac Manifest, but here deftly (and densely) layers his creations with a swarm of sounds that seemingly come from every direction, which becomes all the more disorienting and disturbing when the tempos begin to accelerate and disintegrate at will. And survive long enough into Martyrs and one will hear the Belarusian loner’s melodicism rend the saddest notes from a still-bleeding heart…and an ethereal female voice bringing the album to a climactic close.

If one’s conception of Pa Vesh En is still based upon the band’s earlier works, then Martyrs will provocatively – and irrevocably – rearrange those coordinates, and those of your very soul.

Begin rearranging those coordinates with the brand-new track “In the Torment Cell” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Pa Vesh En’s Martyrs
Act I – Vigilia
1. A Vigilian Impending Murk
2. The House Of Pain
3. In The Torment Cell
 
Act II – Liturgy
4. The Revenant’s Overture
5. Among A Stir Of Echoes
6. Following The Pestilent Maiden
 
Act III – Emanation
7. When The Lights Out
8. The Carnival Of Eerie Souls
9. Le Fantôme De Cette Madame

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces September 10th as the international release date for Pa Vesh En‘s highly anticipated third album, Maniac Manifest, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

In less than five years, the mysterious Belarusian entity known as Pa Vesh En has built a formidable discography, all under the aegis of Iron Bonehead. From the earliest demo tapes to two long-form works as well as last year’s well-received Burial mini-album, Pa Vesh En has emphatically embodied the sound of total and utter emptiness. “Black metal” in definition, sure, but the sonorities lurking above and below their vast murk often elude easy description, if not easy digestion altogether: you don’t so much “experience” Pa Vesh En as suffer the sonic consequences.

And whereas the Belarusian loner has so far explored fringe elements of DSBM, with Maniac Manifest does Pa Vesh En exhibit a startling violence that opens up yet more possibilities in the band’s characteristic chasm of uncomfort. As suggested by the title itself, Maniac Manifest immediately charges forward with a far-more-Alpha surge than before; while not more conventionally “metal,” Pa Vesh En here at least give diehards something halfway more headbanging. But all-consuming/all-nullifying violence is the order of the day here, as the band’s swirling sound of yore gets an uptick in energy as well as increasingly better production – still raw and bleeding, but more ably capturing the reverberating undercurrents that take on a(n undead) life of their own. Gooey-thick yet ghostly, Maniac Manifest smothers the senses into a quickly moving state of inertia-unto-oblivion; in short, Pa Vesh Enparalyze you no matter the tempo. Throughout, though, an aching-yet-subtle shroud of shattered melody hangs, providing a perverse disconnect from the slipstream at hand.

Life is hard, and it usually only gets worse. Pa Vesh En encapsulate this experience with pulse-threatening delirium with Maniac Manifest.

Begin experiencing it with the brand-new track “The Eyes Full of Horror” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Pa Vesh En’s Maniac Manifest
1. Homicidal Sacrifice
2. The Eyes Full of Horror
3. Chamber of the Rotten Flesh
4. In the Wood of Hanged Men
5. Conquerentes de Iniqua Nece Confessionem
6. Spellbound by the Witchmoon
7. The Black Coffin
8. Sister of Sin
9. …

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Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets August 23rd as the international release date for Pa Vesh En‘s highly anticipated second album, Pyrefication, on CD and vinyl LP formats. In little more than two years, this Belarusian enigma has built a sizable (and starkly terrifying) catalog, culminating in last year’s critically acclaimed Church of Bones debut album and, earlier this year, the Cryptic Rites of Necromancy EP, all under the aegis of Iron Bonehead. Thus far, Pa Vesh En has exhibited a stark ‘n’ unsettling style of black metal: from stifled-violence miserablism to seemingly formless drift, from bent-askew melodicism to echo-chamber murk, always with a tortured soul guiding everything, he’s almost effortlessly created a soundworld beyond compare – and has done so with the restlessness of a lost specter. Restless as ever, Pa Vesh En prodigiously keeps apace with his tortured vision of black metal with a brand-new second album, Pyrefication. Ever aptly titled, Pyrefication is total spiritual meltdown: this is the veritable sound of the soul collapsing inward and dying a most exquisite death. To that, Pa Vesh En draws inspiration from within, and here locates a wobbly, ever-so-delicate balance between Cryptic Rites of Necromancy‘s ultraviolent hysteria and the murkier mystery of his earliest work, all done with spellbinding alchemy that makes for a miasmic 40-minute labyrinth. If anything, Pa Vesh En seems unsettlingly comfortable taking his muse wherever he wishes on Pyrefication, malforming and maiming any atmosphere he wishes whilst maintaining that beckoning-abyssward style of melodicism he’s made his own since his auspicious start. Once again, Pa Vesh En hands you the matches for self-immolation – will you provide the kindling for Pyrefication? The first fire can be felt with the new track “Call of the Dead” here:

Cover and Tracklisting as follows:

Tracklisting for Pa Vesh En’s Pyrefication 1. …In the Ghostly Haze 2. Wastelands of Plague 3. Call of the Dead 4. A Cacophony of Spiritual Transition 5. Grotesque Abomination 6. With Splendor of the Night 7. Fog of Death 8. Pyre of the Forgotten

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