VAULTWRAITH

Today, horror metal cultists Vaultwraith reveal the new track “Reborn in Charnel Infamy.” The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Light the Candle In Honour of Devils, which will be released by Hells Headbangers during the first quarter of 2019 on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. Hear Vaultwraith’s “Reborn in Charnel Infamy” in its entirety HERE

Light the Candle In Honour of Devils is a 12-song epic of pure Devilcraft Metal: Vaultwraith’s own morbid mix of heavy ’80s-inspired speed/thrash metal, combined with demonic death/black metal riffs/vocals, atmospheric horror-inspired keyboards, and a King Diamond/Candlemass-influenced vibe of evil and doom.

Vaultwraith’s debut album for Hells Headbangers, 2017’s Death is Proof of Satan’s Power, was a surprising and original success with lethal critical praise from the horror and metal underground, including England’s Metal Hammer, who spread the word like deadly metallic fire with a scribe of sheer enthusiasm for the band and album: “From its dazzling artwork to the bewitched insanity of the lyrics, Death Is Proof Of Satan’s Power strides proudly through extreme metal’s schlockiest outreaches and feels almost guaranteed to delight anyone who owns Suspiria on Blu-ray and listens to King Diamond on a regular basis. This is a gruffer, less-polished affair than the great Dane would favor, however, and while there are endless, ghoulish hooks to enjoy, Vaultwraith’s sound is driven along by a filth-ridden blackened thrash undertow, redolent of Usurper at their thuggish best. Songs like ‘Ravaged In The Crimson Mist’ and ‘High Priestess Of The Wolf Coven’ play out like hi-def snapshots of movie-inspired nightmares. More importantly, it’s heavy as hell, metal to the bone, and one of the finest underground releases of late. Satan demands you check it out”

With their second album due out in 2019, again through Hells Headbangers, Vaultwraith’s Light the Candle In Honour of Devils continues the sound and feeling of the debut but going in a much darker direction, cranking up the death metal, black metal, and doom while keeping the lightning thrash metal sound, altogether taking their love of atmospheric European horror literature, film, and art to further heights and gloomy dimensions.

A loose storyline connects the first album with the second album in a clever and yet darkly passionate way, with each song telling a different tale of various characters from the past trapped in their own hellish nightmares, with murder, warlocks, witch-burnings, cursed nuns, and occult burials ready to explode in an inferno of utter vengeance and damnation. The Vaultwraith has RETURNED!

After a very cult underground split 7″ EP with their mentors-in-evil Nunslaughter, and an upcoming split 7″ EP with their blood-brothers in horror Acid Witch (also due out on Hells Headbangers), the undead witch and warlocks of Vaultwraith are prepared for the underground to revel once again in their brand of original and highly infectious Devilcraft Metal with the thundering hooves and macabre-shreddings of Light the Candle In Honour of Devils!

Release date and preorder info to be announced shortly. In the meantime, hear the new track “Reborn in Charnel Infamy” in its entirety HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Vaultwraith’s Light the Candle In Honour of Devils
1. The Welcoming Flames of Oblivion (Intro)
2. Accused Sorceress
3. Reborn in Charnel Infamy
4. Four Beasts Before the Throne
5. Castle of the Accursed
6. The Divine Butcheress
7. Abess Antichrist
8. All the Black Arts At Her Command
9. Betrothed to the Wicked
10. Execution of the Plague Spreader
11. Nächtober Necromancy
12. The Morta-Possessed

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Today, horror metal cultists Vaultwraith stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Death is Proof of Satan’s Power, Set for international release today, on Halloween, via Hells Headbangers, stream the entirety of Vaultwraith’s Death is Proof of Satan’s Power HERE

Deep within the tenebrous bowels of a dark and decrepit castle was it that the black ritual was undertaken. Assembled there were four of the worst sinners this world has ever known, utterly profane and perverse: The Warlock, He of the Blasphemies… Alucarda Bellows, She of the Devil… Esteban Walpurgis, He of the Evil Rites… and Baron Blood, He of the Flesh & Blood. A blood-red full-moon hanging in the benighted sky, they began the unspeakable ceremony. Mercyful Fate and Bathory albums were offered unto a flaming pyre, as were the celluloid artifacts of Jess Franco and Paul Naschy. Once some esoteric incantations in Latin and Sumerian were uttered alongside the spilling of hot sacrificial blood did that loathsome quartet play the notes known but to the most impious and obscene. And it was then, at the foreboding stroke of midnight, that the shuddersome fiendish spectre did arise from out of the stygian void: the Vaultwraith!

While its ominous conception dates back to 2012, it was not actually until the untimely death of that legendary underground warlock, Jim Sadist of the infamous Nunslaughter, that Vaultwraith truly arose from the netherworld. Before his death, Sadist had been in talks of joining the Devilcraft Cult, and it was indeed those dangerous meetings that conjured the very soul of the thing, bringing infernal life to what had been, before, but a formless nightmare. Now sworn to an unwholesome and unholy pact with devils, witches, and all that is supernatural, Vaultwraith was begotten upon the summer solstice of 2016. Inspired by those masters of classic ‘80s metal such as King Diamond, Iron Maiden, and early Metallica as well as the heavier occultism of Celtic Frost and Nocturnus, it evinced an otherworldly marriage of furious heavy metal guitars, dueling monstrous extreme metal vocals, and keyboards straight out of a Hammer Horror film. The result of all this utter devilry was black hymns that not simply dripped with a palpable atmosphere of unadulterated evil but that were hauntingly melodic, as well.

The very first manifestation of Vaultwraith’s malevolence came in the form of the Wrath of the Wraith demo in late 2016, and it was this tape that seduced obscure label Turanian Honour Productions to arrange a split 7” with, so very apropos, Nunslaughter, this to be freed from Hell sometime in 2017. But it was those maniacal overlords of underground death and black metal underworld, the one and only Hells Headbangers, who did behold the true potential of that Devilcraft Cult and offered to unleash their full-length masterpiece of aural horror, Death Is Proof of Satan’s Power. Eleven dreadfully metaled tributes to all that is morbid and macabre, it is due to lurk forth from the shadows in 2017.

And so, as you descend down, down, down unto the accursed black heart of that very same abandoned castle, you must ask yourself: are you prepared to bear witness to the Vaultwraith?

Ordering info can be found at Hells Headbangers’ Bandcamp HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Vaultwraith’s Death Is Proof of Satan’s Power
1. The Vaultwraith
2. Ravaged In the Crimson Mist
3. Infernal Realms Unfold
4. Dark Desires Unleash the Legions of Lucifer
5. Night Ride Through the Black Woods
6. Manifest at Midnight
7. Devilcraft
8. Open Grave Rape
9. High Priestess of the Wolf Coven
10. Damsel In Disgust
11. Skeletonized Malediction

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