Panopticon are re-issuing their Roads to the North this April 12th, to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The sixth album from the band, it is the second part of a trilogy, long out of print on vinyl. The re-release will come as a special edition via the Bindrune and Nordvis record labels, featuring new and expanded artwork with liner notes and lyrics for the first time. This edition is limited to 1500 copies, pressed from recut plates for a heavier sound. Keep reading below for more details.
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Iterum Nata (The Abbey, Henget, ex-Hexvessel) Share New Single and Video, “A Manifested Nightmare”
Iterum Nata, the project by Jesse Heikkinen (The Abbey, Henget, ex-Hexvessel), has just unveiled its new single, “A Manifested Nightmare.” It is the third track released from the upcoming full-length, From the Infinite Light. The fifth studio album from Iterum Nata, it is due out via the Nordvis record label on March 15th. Head into the article below to watch the new video for “A Manifested Nightmare” and find out more.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Bhleg – Fäghring
Bhleg are an enigmatic and mysterious Swedish group who meld a kind of progressive black metal with traditional European folk music. Fäghring (Nordvis) is their fourth full-length offering and completes a “tetralogy” of records which began with Draumr Ast in 2014. The band consists of three members known only by single letters — S (who primarily plays guitar and bass as well as some vocals, but also adds traditional and unorthodox instruments including lyre, hurdy-gurdy, mouth harp, keyboards, bullroarer, birch trumpet, frame drums, birch sticks, and stones), L (lead vocals) and H (drums). Their promo photos and album cover show the members amongst woodland, hidden beneath cloaks and flowery headdresses, holding traditional instruments and strange blood-soaked wooden dolls.Continue reading
Waldgeflüster – Mondscheinsonaten
Black Metal has always showed both a fascination and an intrinsic link with forest and woodland scenery, perhaps more so than the alternate subject matters it is often notable for. From band shots set amongst wooded areas in frigid winter to a deeper core love, worship or interest in such that manifests in the music itself; as seen with plentiful European acts and with American counterparts such as Panopticon and Twilight Fauna.Continue reading
Vaiya – Remnant Light
The two most overused words in the Black Metal lexicon: “cold” and “atmospheric”, but it is these two words that rather fittingly describe Vaiya‘s Remnant Light (Nordvis/Bindrune), a 2017 re-release of a three-year-old album self-produced by Vaiya mastermind Rob Allen. And if you didn’t know that Vaiya is a one-man project from the decidedly un-cold and un-atmospheric Melbourne, Australia, you would be forgiven for thinking this album was born in some Scandinavian forest.Continue reading