Today, Saturnal Records sets September 23rd as the international release date for All My Sins’ highly anticipated debut album, Pra Sila – Vukov Totem. A work of windswept mysticism and pure pagan fury, Pra Sila – Vukov Totem is one which has been brewing since the ancient days, and is now being released into the modern era with a timelessness that’s exciting to behold.
Originating from the southern regions of Europe, Serbia’s All My Sins was officially formed by Nav Cosmos and V in the year of 2000. The duo gathered a lineup around the idea of claiming its own place among the already-established second-wave black metal scene. Inspired by the spiritual heritage of the land they come from, the band started making records, each of them conceptually placed around the certain mythological symbols.
The first demo, Night Scupltures, was recorded in 2002. It was dedicated to the nocturnal creatures and the driving force behind The Night as a mythological being. The next demo, From the Land of the Shining Past in 2004, focused on the primordial origins of Slavic spirituality and thus was dedicated to The Forest as a mythological entity.
After the several lineup changes that followed, All My Sins was, with few exceptions, barely active for the next 12 years. During this time, V continued his activities among the ranks of such international acts as Kawir, Terrörhammer, Ulvdalir, and Triumfall.
It was finally in 2016 that Nav Cosmos and V were ready to re-form the band and begin work on a new studio record. The result was the Lunar / Solar EP, which was dedicated to The Sky as a mythic being, centering its basis around the ideas of vanishing, going beyond, and dying as seen through the perspective of southern Slavic mysticism. Black Death Production from Poland released Lunar / Solar on CD in 2017, and the EP quickly got appropriate feedback both from the press and the public.
Already in the second half of 2017, All My Sins were once again in the studio, this time working on a full-length conceptually dedicated to The Wolf as a mythological being. Titled Pra Sila – Vukov Totem (rough English translation: “The Primordial Force of the Wolf’s Totem”), the album is thematically focused upon the most important and powerful totem in the culture of southern Slavs.
Reflecting the world of impenetrable places, the symbol of The Wolf carries different, often opposed meanings. In mythology regarded as the ancient ancestor of Serbian people, a creature with unusual attributes is believed to possess obscure divine powers. The meeting of man and wolf is mystically dangerous, yet magnificent at the same time. It is the encounter with demonic being and concurrently the moment when a man meets his native forefather. In the world of wilderness abandoned by man, contradictory and strong, The Wolf represents everything we are not, unknown and terrifying – it is the perfection of a stranger.
With eight individual tracks exploring the metaphysical link between the ancestral prehistoric Wolf and the context of the contemporary age, in order to fully comply with the album’s symbolic content, Saturnal Records officially releases All My Sins’ Pra Sila – Vukov Totem on the 23rd of September, exactly on the day of the last equinox of 2018.
In the meantime, hear the new track “Vetrovo Kolo” HERE .
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for All My Sins’ Pra Sila – Vukov Totem
1. Vukov Totem
2. Zov iz Magle
3. Vetrovo Kolo
4. U Mlazevima Krvi
5. Opsena
6. Mesecu u Oko
7. Konačna Ravnodnevica (Čin Prvi)
8. Konačna Ravnodnevica (Čin Drugi)
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