Black Metal

Comes in a 2 x 180g vinyl, single cover sleeve and with black cardboard inner sleeves.

Side B features laser-etched artwork.

“These Audial Invocations & Sonic Rituals were recorded under bleak conditions and in various Temples:
the Patjakker Hoeve, the Kollum Bunker and last but not least the Lytsewâld Ghostfarm during the past years.

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Four Winds of Revelation is the prophets dream of a heavy atmospheric world possessed of famine and furious storm hunger. Wild riots of black metal melody to be heard from the Spider God, ruinous lambasts of dissonant black metal desecration from the Revenant Marquis, ominous stretches of vast atmospheric black metal by rays of The Sun’s Journey Through the Night and dark ambient orations from the foulest auguries told by The Oracle. Acolytes searching for the myriad flavours of misery upon their most barbed of tongues, shall find their thirst slaked here, as they drink deep of the perdition spoken of upon four winds of revelatory damnation.

Gatefold LP, 12 pages booklet, gold hotfoil.

RAC/Oi!

Here is presented the 2nd part of the legendary No Surrender compilation.

Includes tracks of Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, Böhse Onkelz, etc..

Black Metal

With the memories of Vaal’s maniacal 2019 performance forever burnt into my psyche, I fervently seek out any and all new material that these Dutch deviants offer up. Vaal said it themselves in the write up for this new album, and I quote “While the fury of Vaal is still present, the focus has shifted towards a more melancholic and atmospheric approach.” I possibly didn’t realise just how much the focus has shifted before hearing this though, “Visioen Van Het Verborgen Land” is altogether more restrained and methodical than their past work, with more emphasis placed on brooding textures and slowly unfolding traditional BM. I appreciate that this small circle from The Netherlands operates within their own deeply transcendent sphere, and that they are light years ahead of my comprehension of BM, so I listen to “Visioen Van Het Verborgen Land” with a sense of the utmost respect, and while I perhaps would of wished for a little more rabid fury and off kilter madness similar to that which was witnessed on that frosty night inside Mayhem at Copenhagen, I can’t help but feel that there is something here, working its way beneath the surface insidiously, and something that will fall into place soon enough if I remain focused and steadfast. Much like “Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk”, “Visioen Van Het Verborgen Land” is likely to be revered long after its time and heralded as a milestone for Vaal, and Vaal should be commended for pushing themselves beyond the tried and true and exploring lands previously untouched.