VORDE self-titled LP

VORDE self-titled LP

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(Fallen Empire)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    Another recent Fallen Empire release that I've been listening to non-stop. Vorde's debut album delivers some killer frenetic, ritualistic black metal, but it also emanates a strange, disorientating vibe and hits some of those post-punk influences that almost always hook me in whenever I hear 'em in this sort of stuff. In fact, Vorde's debut is probably my favorite album from the label. It's another project from Michael Rekevics, who also plays drums with Cali black metallers Fell Voices and hardcore outfit Mohoram Atta, but this is by far my favorite of all of his projects, re-envisioning the sweeping black metal of his main band as a kind of murky postpunk-laced black psychedelia.
    It sucked me into its gloomy vortex as soon as the record kicked into the heat-warped synthlike symphonics of "Hatewave" that liquefy across the beginning of the album. That initial blast of sound is like a slowly melting wall of electronic drift, orchestral and kosmische and creepily weird, those first few moments drifting hazily through a thick reverb-drenched atmosphere, before it finally erupts into a furious, cavernous black metal attack. There's a little of that Fell Voices sound in here, but ultimately Vorde's version of black metal is more esoteric; the vocals are a twisted amphibious croak that stretches out across the loping frost-encrusted metal, transforming into soaring gloom-hued crooning and an almost operatic bellow, as the songs shift between furious blackened blasts and more violent thrashing tempos. Ferociously swarming tremolo riffs bleed with weird dissonances; an off-kilter discordance underlies much of sound, even as these songs start to soar into majestic heights, giving this stuff a surreal feel. At times it can remind me of Xasthur's misshapen black metal, but much more aggressive. There are stirring classically-influenced melodies that worm their way through tracks like "Transformations Of The Vessel", and the arrival of bizarre chanting brings a druggy, ritualistic vibe to parts of the album, as do the presence of weird synth loops and queasy electronics that ripple like black borealis beneath the frozen black sun that hangs suspended in Vorde's void.
    That warbling, warped dissonance is even stronger on "Blood Moon", and that's also where Vorde begins to unveil a strange post-punk element to his sound, one that is subdued beneath the blackened metal but definitely there in the ghostly reverb-heavy guitars that chime over the song's slower passages. It all builds in its hallucinatory atmosphere, slipping into slower, more doom-laden passages and eerie rumbling on the epic "Crown Of Black Flame" and the anthemic closer "Funeral Vortex", but what really makes those two songs so fucking killer are how they both end up transforming into a propulsive, almost motorik blackness, the bass guitar moving to the forefront with these great, driving bass lines that have a definite Joy Division-like feel, that sinister post-punk eventually veering back into the blast-beaten darkness, the sound awash into those uneasy dissonant guitar chords and icy atonal arpeggios circling in the emptiness. It's moments like that on Vorde's debut that make this highly recommended to anyone who dug that amazing Funereal Presence album from last year, both bands sharing a similar, cavernous vibe.
    Limited to five hundred copies, pressed on heavyweight 180 gram vinyl and presented in a nice matte-finish jacket with spot varnish printing.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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