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The USA based black metal outfit Vaamatar has announced 20 May as the release date for its striking debut album, Medievalgeist, on CD and vinyl LP formats, via Iron Bonehead Productions.
Formed in 2020, out of the ashes of two projects coming to an end, Los Angeles' Vaamatar was born with one intention: to play black metal in its purest form. Raw and fast and free of frills, the full-length Medievalgeist is the follow-up to its debut EP, Evil Witching Black Metal. Immediately, old sensations are awakened and recast anew. The spectre of the second wave of black metal during the 1990s drapes its wings across Medievalgeist, but Vaamatar's strong songwriting eludes easy categorization. Instead of early Darkthrone, one can hear here contemporaneously early Dødheimsgard; instead of early Enslaved, the '90s work of Norway's Hades; instead of prime Marduk, comparably prime Arckanum, and so on. This is all to underline that the duo of Vaamatar is old souls to the bitter end, having imbibed ancient wisdom and now spilling them freely across their own teachings in the form of Medievalgeist.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Greg Wilkinson (Autopsy, Necrot, Vastum) during the turbulent unrelenting pandemic, Medievalgeist conveys a cold, apocalyptic atmosphere fit for the ages. The album's six-song/41-minute runtime is exceptionally immersive, working on spiritual/transcendental levels, as well as ones rooted in good, old-fashioned headbanging. But mark these words: Vaamatar do not play "party" black metal. This is serious, sophisticatedly unsophisticated black art brewed in archaic splendour - old catacombs open and spectral shades escape to the velvety embrace of the night. This is Medievalgeist!
Embrace the night with the brand-new track "Hallowed Flesh", which awaits you right below. Link
Medievalgeist tracklist:
1. Medievalgeist
2. Plundering Claws
3. Hallowed Flesh
4. Spit & Gravel
5. Axe of Dolor
6. Midnight Montpelier
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