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Brazil-based The Kryptik has announced 2 June as the release date for its third full-length, A Journey To The Darkest Kingdom, via Purity Through Fire on CD format. The vinyl version will follow later.
With a past that stretches back to the late 90s and a patient path that began in 2013 with a moniker change, The Kryptik burst forth into brilliance when aligned with Purity Through Fire. In the autumn of 2019 came its acclaimed second album, When The Shadows Rise, a startlingly immersive gem of symphonic black metal, and many finally took notice. A year later, the 40-minute Behold Fortress Inferno came, poignantly expanding on its vast canvas despite "only" being a mini-album. Between these two records especially, The Kryptik proved that "symphonic black metal" need not be a dirty word; with no outside influence from the nowadays "black metal" scene, the duo dependably practised its mystical arts and erected a grand citadel of sound - an atavistic awakening of when all was simply black metal, heedless of appellations.
And so it goes with The Kryptik's massive third album, A Journey To The Darkest Kingdom. The seven-track/70-minute A Journey To The Darkest Kingdom reveals the duo's grandest vision yet: neo-ancient symphonic black metal drenched in the dark waters of the cosmos, a castle of crystalline ice whose spires reach into boundless space. The band's ebon flow continually crests and cascades, synths swirling all about and with an utterly magickal effect. The production here in this Darkest Kingdom is clear and sharp - all murk excised for maximum immersion, gorgeous swell, and pulsing violence - altogether sounding incredibly vintage and era-authentic yet somehow fresher than most nowadays black metal recordings. But, that magick largely resides in The Kryptik's songwriting, as each song is epic in its own right and then all threaded together as one fever dream: melodicism, majesty, and malice in perfect balance.
Here comes "Unhallowed" - the first upcoming album's 12-minute-track... Link
A Journey To The Darkest Kingdom tracklist:
1. A Journey to the Darkest Kingdom
2. Into the Blasphemy Ritual
3. The Rotten Wounds of the Blessed
4. Unhallowed
5. Bloodthirsty the Mighty Bestiary
6. The Sovereign Whore
7. Opus Lucifero
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