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Yesterday, Signal Rex announces 22 April as the international release date for Vetus Supulcrum's sixth album, A Shroud Of Desolation, on CD and cassette tape formats.
Maurice De Jonge is one of this millennium's most insanely prolific musicians. Focusing almost entirely on solo projects, the Dutch master is widely known for the terrifying (and terrifyingly unclassifiable) Gnaw Their Tongues, as well as for a myriad of black metal-oriented projects: among them, De Magia Veterum, Cloak Of Altering, Pyriphlegethon, Golden Ashes, Grand Celestial Nightmare, The Black Mysteries, and Dodenbezweerder. And yet, even amongst all those bands and countless more, De Jonge has also created many dungeon synth-oriented projects: Schemer Heer, Druk Yul, and most prominently, Vetus Supulcrum.
Like many/most of Maurice's projects, Vetus Supulcrum stays true to a subgenre's aesthetic sensibilities but then unabashedly interjects his personality, making for a journey that's familiar and refreshing simultaneously. In this case, with the latest recording fittingly titled A Shroud Of Desolation, Vetus Supulcrum aims for the most bombastic and folkloristic end of the wider dungeon synth spectrum. The root inspiration is very much still black metal, and its themes focused solely on the dark arts and the occult. But with its sound-field sparkling and 3D, A Shroud Of Desolation most definitely conveys a soundtrack sensation, one of high fantasy and epic questing, given occasional narration - ominously, authoritatively - by De Jonge himself. It doesn't break any barriers, nor should it have to; the sum effect is simply immersive to the Nth degree.
Highly recommended for those who prize Summoning and Druadan Forest's most orchestral soundscapes, as well as those whose imagination is open to vast green splendour - Vetus Supulcrum, will enwrap you in A Shroud Of Desolation!
Now enwrap thyself with the first revealed track from Vetus Supulcrum's upcoming album - "His Almighty Excellency Of Royal Blood". Link
A Shroud Of Desolation tracklist:
1. His Almighty Excellency Of Royal Blood
2. The Black Raven's Croak
3. Trumpets Of War
4. Funeral Pyres
5. A Shroud Of Desolation
6. The Howling Lamentations On The Wind
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