You can support Terra Relicta by donating! Please, do so, and thank you!
German black metallers Lunar Chalice stream the entirety of their debut album, Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage, which will be released on the 1st of June via Iron Bonehead Productions. Formed in 2019, Lunar Chalice comprises prolific veterans of the German metal underground.
Under the alluring moniker Lunar Chalice, the band quickly set upon a slew of releases, first with the Walpurgis Dance demo in 2019 and the Night Poetry EP right after, exhibiting a subtly refreshing approach to classics-minded black metal. The next year came to the even-stronger Medieval Cults Of Heresy EP, thus setting the stage for the band's debut full-length.
Their black metal is like a boulder gathering momentum down a mountain and rumbling across valleys; the movement is inexorable and portends doom, and simply cannot be stopped. Lunar Chalice, in effect, extends a spectrum of black metal sonics that's feral and unhinged on one hand and mercilessly martial on the other; that their almost-overwhelmingly physical onslaught is deliberately (and eerily) clipped betrays both a depth of vision and a rare grace in a landscape usually laden with filth. Listen for yourself below. Link