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Today, Signal Rex announces December 9th as the international release date for a brand-new compilation from Voëmmr titled Negras sessões no abismo sul on CD and vinyl LP formats.

From their shadowy beginnings in 2017, Portugal’s Voëmmr have continued to be enigmas in a Portuguese black metal scene already possessing plenty of enigmas. Much of that enigma status hinges on the Aldebaran Circle, which includes the esteemed likes of Ginnungagap, Trono Além Morte, and Ordem Satânica, but Voëmmr‘s inclusion is nevertheless crucial. They proved that status with their full-length Nox Maledictus their very year of emerging from the void, but it’s the band’s successive recordings which proved how haunting and harrowing black metal could be.

That all blossomed in earnest with 2018’s Sombr Moebrd demo, which starts off the new collection Negras sessões no abismo sul. Rarely has organ-led black metal been this spectral and shimmering whilst portending horrific ideas from beyond the shade…indeed, the three-song recording sounds like the work of ghosts. On the second half of Negras sessões no abismo sul is the Voëmmr‘s most recent demo, Tordaebr Odr Daebr. Released in that cursed year of 2020, the four-song recording maintains that magickal & malnourished sound which they’ve made their own – and, it must be said, whilst continuing the cryptic dialect created by legendary French forebears Belketre – but pushing the dichotomy of beautiful / eerie to further, more perverse extremes. 

Calming before the dread sets in, Negras sessões no abismo sul is a timely reminder of Voëmmr‘s still-considerable powers, as they prepare to play this year’s Signal Rex-curated Invicta Requiem Mass and next year’s Howls Of Winter fest in Estonia.

In the meantime, hear the original tracks of Sombr Moebrd here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Voëmmr’s Negras sessões no abismo sul
1. Untitled I
2. Untitled II
3. Untitled III
4. Maesticae
5. Fogr mae Raedrae
6. Svwtae Tordaebr
7. Nesraetr odr Tvmlar

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Today, Harvest of Death sets April 20th as the international release date for Voëmmr‘s highly anticipated second album, O ovnh intot adr mordrb, on vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. A so-far-shadowy entity, Voëmmr hail from the currently-hot Portuguese raw black metal scene. Specifically, the band is a part of the clandestine Aldebaran Circle, which includes Ordem Satânica, Trono Além Morte, and Occelenbriig. Like those contemporaries, Voëmmr eschew any sort of social-media presence – or any internet presence at all, for that matter – preferring instead to work on their bewitching black metal conjurations far away from any sort of ego-enhancing public awareness; their means and methods are, rather, rooted in the ancient ways of the ’90s, like their massively prolific (and massively fuck-off) forebears in the French Black Legions. Continuing the compelling uncomfort of their Sombr Moebrd demo from 2018, this inscrutable and stratifying cult continue their assured, almost effortless plunge into the abyss with a brand-new 44-minute recording. If Voëmmr‘s alternately celebrated/feared debut album, 2017’s Nox Maledictvs, was the sound of the cult crawling through the shadows for the first time – and in the process, locating shimmeringly ugly magickal frequencies, sick and rotten and malnourished yet somehow strangely beautiful in their malodorous malaise – then O ovnh intot adr mordrb sounds like that cult striding boldly beyond the shadows. That signature sound, as lasciviously laid out on Nox Maledictvs, is here more urgent, more manic, more hysteric, the ritualism of yore reigned into an altogether more focused maw of desolation and dread: pounding, persistent, passionate. As ever, their usage of unnervingly insistent organ has developed into a perversely beautiful/eerie counterpoint to the ripped-raw black metal beneath – as above, so below – thus making Voëmmr‘s iteration of black metal all the more idiosyncratic. Furthering that idiosyncrasy is their continued usage of the strange, cryptic dialect created by legendary French forebears Belketre. Enigmas either die or grow stronger. With O ovnh intot adr mordrb do Voëmmr prove the latter. The first show of strength can be found with the new track “Carpatr Tzaeb” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Voëmmr’s O ovnh intot adr mordrb 1. Coecr od Doemrz (part II) 2. Dorbd Divn 3. Vin ad Mordrb 4. Del ed Ovtmn 5. Profvndr 6. Carpatr Tzaeb

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