The Finnish black metal entity FLAGG has
unleashed a first glimpse from its third upcoming album,
“Diabolical Bloodlust”. CD’s will be
released on April 4th via Purity Through Fire (www.purity-through-fire.com).
The cover artwork was crafted by Vhan Artworks & Printing.
Flagg are one of Finnish black metal’s most unsung gems. Rotten and regal, the band is the work of two scene veterans: selfsame multi-instrumentalist Flagg, who was a part of reanimated old Finnish cult Annihilatus, and vocalist Tyrant, whose hordes include the esteemed likes of Malum, Infernarium, and Kalmankantaja. Together, Flagg‘s two full-lengths – 2020’s Nothing But Death and 2021’s Cosmic Chaos Manifest, both released under the banner of Purity ThroughFire – flew in the face of prevailing Finnish paradigms, presenting an ultraviolence largely steeped in the ancient ’90s whilst evincing a palatable sort of modernity.
Now, four years after that not-inconsiderable second album, Flagg return with arguably their best record yet, Diabolical Bloodlust. Those pining for an authentic throwback to mid/late ’90s melodic black metal of a most blastbeaten nature will salivate at the prospect of this Diabolical Bloodlust. With a production style that’s palpably vintage – gleam and grime locking horns, harmonious in their hellish result – underpinning these eight firestorms of nightsky melodicism, Flagg proceed to flay the listener with overwhelming-yet-entrancing intent, stacking fucking RIFFS upon RIFFS and coating them in the freezing fire of olde-worlde melody. No more but definitely no less, Diabolical Bloodlust sticks to its rigorous template with monomaniacal focus, stacking up well alongside such late ’90s touchstones as On Twilight Enthroned, Towards the Skullthrone of Satan, Lords of the Nightrealm, At the World of Untrodden Wonder, and Onwards to the Spectral Defile. Those who know, know, and Flagg most definitely KNOW!
Tracklist:
1. Storming the Gates
2. Morningstar Rising
3. Diabolical Bloodlust
4. The Book of Death
5. Throne Regained
6. Call of Darkness
7. In Famine and in Pestilence
8. Omega Dawn
Delve into the song “Storming the Gates” below:
Mother of THE VOID.
Underground music is the ultimate weapon against mediocrity.
