{"id":106608,"date":"2023-11-04T17:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106608"},"modified":"2023-11-04T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:31:07","slug":"vargrav-new-album-the-nighthold-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106608","title":{"rendered":"VARGRAV – New Album “The Nighthold” Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WEREWOLF RECORDS is proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Finland’s VARGRAV,\u00a0The Nighthold<\/em>, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. Release date is December 15, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the dawn of the classic debut album,\u00a0Netherstorm<\/em>, in 2018, Finland’s VARGRAV have almost single-handedly reinvigorated the oft-maligned symphonic black metal subgenre. Forged in fires from the ancients – founder V-Khaoz’s credentials are vast and stretch back decades – and stoking the embers last left by Obtained Enslavement and Norway’s Covenant and Odium, VARGRAV’s two albums to date stand as proud pillars of shimmering, classics-based obsidian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As momentous as those two full-lengths have been, VARGRAV arguably eclipse both with their third album, The Nighthold<\/em>. With a lineup that now includes the notorious Graf Werwolf von Armageddon on vocals and Moonsorrow members Trollhorn of the Black Harvest on guitars\/bass and Baron M. Tarwonen on drums, VARGRAV’s swirling, cosmic surge has never been more potent; their attack is both sharper and dreamier, crystal-clear and opaque simultaneously. That added clarity creates more immediacy as The Nighthold<\/em> kicks in, for the aggression of old is kicked into overdrive here and the synths take on a truly orchestral aspect. It’s not for nothing that the album is a full hour in length: everything here sounds (and feels) HUGE, one massive velvety purple landscape of stained-glass visions as far as the third eye can see. And all 12 tracks are threaded together in a plausibly cinematic manner; while each is mighty in its own respective right, VARGRAV sequence every song with artistic flair and high drama, concluding the immersive experience with a daresay-soulful guitar solo during the coda of “Creator of the True Real” that then segues into the nearly-10-minute big-screen instrumental “Ghostlands.” What film or filmic realm one enters into (or leaves) is entirely up to the listener…The Nighthold<\/em> is boundless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is thus not unjust to liken this achievement to Covenant’s classic Nexus Polaris<\/em>. The second era of VARGRAV has hereby begun with The Nighthold<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preorder info can be found\u00a0HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VARGRAV lineup 2023<\/strong>
V-KhaoZ Stormrage – keyboards
Graf Werwolf von Armageddon – vocals
Trollhorn of the Black Harvest – guitars, bass
Baron M. Tarwonen – drums <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORE INFO:
www.werewolf.fi<\/a>
www.facebook.com\/werewolf.rex<\/a>  <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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