Finnish black metallers Warmoon Lord unleash their highly anticipated third full-length album, “Sacrosanct Demonopathy”, ahead of its release. The title will be out on May 25th via Werewolf Records (https://www.werewolf.fi).
Once the best-kept secret of the ever-fertile Finnish black metal underground, Warmoon Lord truly made their presence known with 2021’s “Battlespells”. Released by Werewolf, the band’s second album fulfilled the promise of 2019’s not-inconsiderable Burning Banners of the Funereal War with superlative flair. The sound was stridently classicist, but suffused with windswept grandeur, martial surge, and orkish execution – and, perhaps above all, both songwriting and personality to spare. No longer “the other project of the Old Sorcery guy,” Warmoon Lord mainman Lord Vrăjitor made sure “Battlespells” lived up to its namesake, and then some.
The stage thus set, Warmoon Lord make lateral developments with
all-important third album “Sacrosanct Demonopathy”. On the surface,
the foundation is largely the same – pure & proud black metal of a
most
fantastical nature, even “medieval,” but always burning with that
icy-hot passion that so fired the second wave
during the mythical 1990s – but there’s a wider canvas of textures
and emotions at play here. The songwriting
fires on literally all cylinders – truly, variety is not a dirty
word in this context – with each of these eight tracks
(QUICKLY) moving in myriad directions, but ones that are
increasingly complex and even cathartic; it’s not
difficult to imagine castle spires continually ascending, so
cresting and climactic are “Sacrosanct
Demonopathy”‘s component songs. What’s more, the crisp &
effervescent recording heightens the nightsky
melodicism to a point where it almost feels paradoxically “bright”
– but with stained-glass synths winding in
and out of those spires, the darkness widens again and devours the
listener in a purple haze. Not surprisingly,
then, the central themes to the album are more personal and turned
inwards – Satanic fantasy, occultism,
destroying ties with the herd, and crucially “creating your own
worlds,” in Lord Vrăjitor’s own words –
compared to its predecessor’s ones of pride, conquering, war,
tyranny, and ruling. Wide awake and dreaming
is Warmoon Lord here!
The trailblazers (or, rather, church-burners) of the ’90s
eventually went slicker, more “mature” directions as
that decade drew to a close. A few were more successful than most,
and if such is a foregone conclusion if one
writes & performs pure black metal, then Warmoon Lord honorably
uphold the exception to the rule with the
epic landscape of “Sacrosanct Demonopathy”!
Tracklist:
1. Warpoems & Tragedies
2. Invoking the Retribution Eidolon
3. A Hungering Yoke
4. Tartaros Offering
5. Uncreation’s Dragon
6. His Enigmatic Ways
7. Daemonic Supremacy Enthroned
8. Torch of Magickal Arte
Listen to the album below:
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