O strife! O torment!
Lead our tribe to victory
O strife! O torment!
Confound our enemies
Let the weak ones despair
With the fire of the old gods burning in our eyes
For the honour of the ancient ones
We’ll steep the soil with blood!
The fire on the hill marks our way
Our enemies decree war
Raise your swords kinsmen of old
With burnished blades we cleave flesh from bone
And grind their bones to dust.
Taste of my blade in your flesh
Sinking deep with pointed fangs
Bloodlust rages in our eyes
Our foes corpses devoured by flies
Imbued with the might of our dread lord
Blades of the Tyrant gleam with fire
Satiate our unquenchable desire
We worship at the altar of death and chaos
supported by 24 fans who also own “Decree of Death”
The first 30 seconds of "Revenge by Fire" convinced me to get the whole album! It is a face-melting blend of speed and black metal, reminiscent of Hellripper! KVAEN is a Swedish solo project much like Hellripper but many known guest musicians helped J. Björnfot in his endeavor. Altogether it is really a solid debut album, I loved the melodies and the pace changes in the second half too, ending with a "calm" instrumental one. Well-done!! sachavonkarl74
True crime gets a blackened hardcore twist on the UK band's debut album, inspired by an unsolved mystery from 2013. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 23, 2022
supported by 24 fans who also own “Decree of Death”
Californian quartet defining themselves as Sci-Fi black metal, maybe due to cosmic and interstellar topics, sounding like blackened death metal too ("The Maw"). It's a well-balanced melodic black metal album, with some fast-paced tracks and nice rhythmic transitions reminding me of Swiss band Celtic Frost (e.g. Terminal Odyssey). In other words not overly dominated by drum speed and also not sounding as extreme or as raw as some BM can be. sachavonkarl74