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Irish black metallers Valais have revealed a special video for their self-titled debut album, released on 4 March via Signal Rex on CD and cassette tape - the vinyl version will follow later this year. The video for the Valais' album Valais in its entirety awaits you below.
One of the most accomplished newcomers Signal Rex has come across in recent years, the shadowy entity of Valais fully formed in the middle of 2021 with its self-titled debut album. Despite existing in the vast (and vastly inconsistent) wilderness of Bandcamp, Valais imparted power and poignancy that takes most bands at least a couple of records to reach, if at all. Both classically composed and forward-thinking, Valais understood right from the start the core tenets of true black metal but equally understood how to inject their personality and poise into such to create something that adds to the language of black metal rather than mimics its speech patterns (and sloppily so).
No, Valais as a work is a towering monument of tension and release, skilful contours and subtle dynamics, richly malevolent melody and slipstreaming violence. Aesthetic touchstones include the likes of Slidhr, latter-day Leviathan, and even Blut Aus Nord at their wiliest, but Valais also exhibit an understated sense of the pagan - perhaps stemming from their native Ireland, or perhaps from some strange cosmos far beyond our comprehension... Link
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