BLUT & EISEN PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the third album from one of black metal's brightest/darkest hopes, BARSHASKETH's Ophidian Henonis. Originally hailing from New Zealand but later relocating to Scotland, BARSHASKETH have been patiently perfecting their bewitching craft these past five years, away from prying eyes but with sights set on diabolical fullmoon mysticism. Theirs is a sound that resonates with the stripped-bare, nightsky purity of second-wave black metal, from the ancient days when black metal was truly a cult for criminals and diehards. Ophidian Henosis is BARSHASKETH's grandest distillation of these eldritch energies yet. At once familiar and foreign, Ophidian Henosis explodes forth with cryogenic violence and fog-drenched atmosphere, arcing about with subtle shifts in texture and twists in composition, maintaining a headspace of otherworldly splendour whilst never lingering too long in a monochromatic mire. For however committed to purist black metal BARSHASKETH may be, their journey across Ophidian Henosis is a multi-hued one, recalling the early days of Sacramentum, Kvist, Setherial, and Isvind among others - in other words, the spectral darkness of the mid-1990s - and brimming with a passion and poignancy that can only come from the most obsidian of souls. Ophidian Henosis marks the beginning of BARSHASKETH's ascent...

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BLUT & EISEN PRODUCTIONS is proud to present FUNERAL THRONE's second album, Threshold. Originally released last year on a very limited cassette edition, Threshold is now being unleashed upon a wider audience to weave its spell. And what a spell FUNERAL THRONE harness here, a heaving mass of palpably physical energy yet one brimming with harrowing, hypnotic intent. Many of the song titles across Threshold - "Resurrection," "Through Transforming Fire," "Hypnotic Coils," and "Vessel" among them - paint a vivid picture of its contents; in fact, even the title of Threshold itself speaks volumes about the simultaneous ascent/descent the band undertake. Wrapped in a living/breathing style of production often missing from modern black metal - or even modern metal, in general - Threshold surges and pulses with a potency that's true heavy metal at its heart, stripped of degenerate Everyman cliche and shot through with the devilishness 'n' diabolism of idiomatic spiritual black metal. The Threshold presents itself - will you step beyond with FUNERAL THRONE?

Format: CD, Digital (LP version at a later point)
Genre: black metal
Catalogue Nr.: B&E.085

Tracklist
1. Resurrection
2. Through Transforming Fire
3. Victory
4. Hypnotic Coils
5. Vessel
6. Novus Ortus
7. I) Gateway To Lucifer; II) Gateway To The Eye

Lineup on Threshold
J. Wilcox - Lead Guitar and Vocals
J. Welch  - Bass Guitar and Vocals
B. Williams - Lead Guitar
R. Wakelam - Drums and Percussion

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FUNERAL THRONE - I) Gateway To Lucifer; II) Gateway To The Eye

FUNERAL THRONE - Novus Ortus

FUNERAL THRONE - Vessel

FUNERAL THRONE - Hypnotic Coils

FUNERAL THRONE - Victory

FUNERAL THRONE - Through Transforming Fire

FUNERAL THRONE - Resurrection

BLUT & EISEN PRODUCTIONS is proud to present FUNERAL THRONE's second album, Threshold. Originally released last year on a very limited cassette edition, Threshold is now being unleashed upon a wider audience to weave its spell. And what a spell FUNERAL THRONE harness here, a heaving mass of palpably physical energy yet one brimming with harrowing, hypnotic intent. Many of the song titles across Threshold - "Resurrection," "Through Transforming Fire," "Hypnotic Coils," and "Vessel" among them - paint a vivid picture of its contents; in fact, even the title of Threshold itself speaks volumes about the simultaneous ascent/descent the band undertake. Wrapped in a living/breathing style of production often missing from modern black metal - or even modern metal, in general - Threshold surges and pulses with a potency that's true heavy metal at its heart, stripped of degenerate Everyman cliche and shot through with the devilishness 'n' diabolism of idiomatic spiritual black metal. The Threshold presents itself - will you step beyond with FUNERAL THRONE?

Format: CD, Digital (LP version at a later point)
Genre: black metal
Catalogue Nr.: B&E.085

Tracklist
1. Resurrection
2. Through Transforming Fire
3. Victory
4. Hypnotic Coils
5. Vessel
6. Novus Ortus
7. I) Gateway To Lucifer; II) Gateway To The Eye

Lineup on Threshold
J. Wilcox - Lead Guitar and Vocals
J. Welch  - Bass Guitar and Vocals
B. Williams - Lead Guitar
R. Wakelam - Drums and Percussion

Independent Black Metal Label & Distribution, located in Nordhausen, Germany.

http://blutundeisenprod.de/

Blut & Eisen Productions

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