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The USA-based black metal act Hulder will release its sophomore full-length entitled Verses In Oath via 20 Buck Spin on the 9th of February 2024. The hauntingly grandiose new Hulder album Verses In Oath, created during the dreariest cold months of the Northwest Winter, constitutes the most majestic, untamed manifestation thus far in the band’s journey of conquest, as new territory is put to flame and conquered by sword and shield.
Following a series of demos, EPs, singles, and the 2021 debut album Godslastering: Hymns Of A Forlorn Peasantry, a pivotal 2022 saw Hulder release The Eternal Fanfare, a five-song mini-album, marking a new phase in the project’s rapid development. Further to Hulder’s auditory ascendency, the band set the live stage ablaze, touring widely in North America throughout the year and into 2023, which brought them to European shores for the first time as well. Spurred on by these noble victories, the ground was prepared for the immensity of Verses In Oath.
While black metal has evolved into myriad offshoots and subgenres to the point of incomprehension, Hulder is resolutely steeped in the genre’s destructive preeminence, rituals, and traditions, carrying the torch of its origins and heritage. And still Verses In Oath astonishes with the malevolent spirit of creative autonomy and individual freedom essential to reach the genre’s exalted heights.
The first single from Hulder’s Verses In Oath, “Vessel Of Suffering”, is now available for streaming and you can hear it right here. Link