HELVELLYN - Sets Release Date For Debut Album And Reveals First Track

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Published on Sunday, 16 October 2022 16:13

Written by Jerneja

Helvellyn has announced 4 November as the release date for its debut album, The Lore Of The Cloaked Assembly, via Purity ThroughFire (digipack CD) and Worship Tapes (cassette); the vinyl version will follow next year.

Formed in 2010, Helvellyn is part of the Cumbrian black metal orbiting around the incredibly prolific P.G., who currently numbers labelmates Thy Dying Light, Nefarious Dusk, Úlfarr, and Morte Lune among his many endeavours. Joining him in Helvellyn are other equally prolific members of the UK metal underground whose credits also include Thy Dying Light as well as Heathen Deity, Volition, Skiddaw, and Absinthropy among many others.

Now, after a handful of short-length releases, Helvellyn arrives with its debut album, The Lore Of The Cloaked Assembly - a compact summation of the Helvellyn aesthetic during the past decade, but sharpened to ice-cold perfection. Theirs is a deliberately (and proudly) traditional style of the black metal set somewhere around 1995; the paradigmatic works of earliest Dodheimsgard, Gorgoroth, and especially Darkthrone as well as later gatekeepers like Armagedda and Sweden's Craft keep the parameters pure and cold. Indeed, to say The Lore of the Cloaked Assembly could've come out on Malicious Records back in the mid-'90s should be viewed as the highest of compliments, so cryogenically authentic is Helvellyn's attack here. Those who know, know, for this is The Lore of the Cloaked Assembly!

Find out for yourself by listening to Helvellyn's upcoming album's first revealed track "Sacrilegious Violations". Link

The Lore Of The Cloaked Assembly tracklist:
1. The Lore Of The Cloaked Assembly
2. Sacrilegious Violations
3. Sacrilegious Violations Pt 2
4. Reign Upon Ruby Skies Of Noose
5. Never Ending Moonlit Spires
6. To Walk The Corridors Of Pestilence
7. Vlkodlak Battalion
8. Unholy Voyage [Bonus track]