IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present RUNESPELL's
highly anticipated debut album, Unhallowed Blood Oath, on CD and vinyl LP
formats. Hailing from the shit-hot true Australian black metal scene, RUNESPELL
is the work of one Nightwolf, considered by those in the know to be arguably
the busiest man in OZBM, maintaining as he does the equally prolific Eternum
and Blood Stronghold. While bearing aesthetic similarities to those two bands -
this is the purest, most mystical black metal after all - RUNESPELL is a
majestic rumination on the mysteries of war and bloodshed, vengeance and valor,
memory and destiny. Nightwolf handily accomplished that earlier this year with
the debut demo Aeons of Ancient Blood, but now, once again in bloodpact with
IRON BONEHEAD, RUNESPELL rises for its grandest strike in Unhallowed Blood
Oath.
Maintaining the same exemplary standards in songwriting and
execution, here on Unhallowed Blood Oath, the passion and prowess by which
Nightwolf guides RUNESPELL have somehow multiplied tenfold. This is black metal
deeply steeped in early '90s classicism, be it from Scandinavia or France or
particularly Poland - again, no sea change there - but to take source material,
especially the sort that's been so widely replicated year after year, and both
handily challenge those classics AND resound like an era-relevant relic is no
mean feat. In fact, it requires dedication and sacrifice - spiritually, above
all, as well as physically - and those are in no short supply across Unhallowed
Blood Oath; not for nothing is the album titled that. The seven tracks
comprising the record feel strangely far more epic than the compact
running-time of 37 minutes suggest, and yet within that mesmerizing maelstrom
of alternately grim/gorgeous frequencies lies profound truths, flickering
refractions of times distant and as yet lived, of black metal wielded as
weapon, totem, and portal simultaneously.
Partake in RUNESPELL's Unhallowed Blood Oath or be banished:
there is only one choice.
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