 Release:
20 Buck Spin
9. Feb. 2024
Info:
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.
A pivotal 2022 saw HULDER release "The Eternal Fanfare", a 5 track mini-album, marking a new phase in the project’s rapid development. Further to HULDER’s audial ascendency, the band set the live stage ablaze, touring widely in North America throughout the year and into 2023, which brought the band 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". Tracked by Hulder in the Northwest, the mix and master was entrusted to cult legend Ahti Kortelainen of Tico Tico Studios in Finland, whose overwhelming list of credits stretch back decades to include Barathrum, Belial, Impaled Nazarene and Moonsorrow among countless others. The result is both unsparingly savage and wistfully evocative; black blood on white snow.
The ancient sorrow-filled melancholy and seething spirit that are the essence of "Hearken The End" permeate the entire album, by now a fundamental detail in HULDER’s identity where roots run deep in long forgotten soil. And whilst the slashing cruelty and torn flesh of "Vessel of Suffering" and "Enchanted Steel" embrace a predatory barbarism, it is the joining of all those elements that places "Verses in Oath" in the timeless pantheon of Black Metal’s most strident lineage.
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.
"Hearken The End" - Official Video Clip: https://youtu.be/bajKrXRTQC
"Vessel Of Suffering" - Official Track Stream: https://youtu.be/5tE1ptoX1Wo
Tracklist:
01. An Elegy
02. Boughs Ablaze
03. Hearken The End
04. Verses In Oath
05. Lamentation
06. An Offering
07. Cast Into The Well Of Remembrance
08. Vessel Of Suffering
09. Enchanted Steel
10. Veil Of Penitence
Line-up:
Hulder - Guitars, Vocals, Synth
Necreon - Bass
CK - Drums
European Tourdates:
19.06.2024 Oberhausen, DE – Helvete
20.06.2024 Utrecht, NL – Tivoli
21.06.2024 Bourlon, FR – Rock in Bourlon
22.06.2024 Copenhagen, DK – Copenhell
23.06.2024 Hamburg, DE – Bambi Galore
24.06.2024 Berlin, DE – Cassiopeia
25.06.2024 Ostrava, CZ – Barack Club
26.06.2024 München, DE – Hanse 36
27.06.2024 Spálené Poříčí, CZ – Spálené Poříčí
28.06.2024 Innsbruck, AT – PMK
29.06.2024 Milano, IT – Dedolor Music HQ
30.06.2024 Torino, IT – Ziggy
01.07.2024 Karlsruhe, DE – P8
02.07.2024 Namur, BE – Le Belvedere
03.07.2024 Erfurt, DE – From Hell
04.07.2024 Leipzig, DE – ifZ
05.07.2024 Cracow, PL – Klub Gwarek
06.07.2024 Warsaw, PL – Hydrozagadka
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