Spanish funeral doom metal warriors OF DARKNESS are set to release the bands latest release "MASS TRIDENTINA" on vinyl, due to be unleashed 3/29/2024 via SENTIENT RUIN LABORATORIES.
FROM SENTIENT RUIN:
We're proud to announce an imminent reissue of Of Darkness' colossal 2023 debut album "Missa Tridentina". Formed by veteran members of the Spanish extreme metal underground coming from bands like Graveyard, Teitanblood and Emanation (among others), Barcelona's abysmal black funeral doom miserists Of Darkness finally bring us their 2023 light-devouring full-length abomination on vinyl format for the first time ever.
A colossal, subsonic deluge of agonizing misery churned from the wretched depths of a lightless abyss, “Missa Tridentina”
stands regal and imposing as an absolute beast of 2023 extreme doom,
possibly its greatest moment, beautifully adorned with atypical elements
of neoclassical composition, chamber music, dark ambient, and
ritualistic electronics to underline an impenetrable genesis of
divergence. An experimental approach that has exalted the work's
suffocating aura of surrealism and which embodies as a sentence of
absolute oblivion, condemning the listener to a horrific disembodiment
of perpetual aeonian torment. Few bands in recent times have had the
vision and skill to harness the same realms of crushing, slow-moving
terror we've seen masterfully captured in previous decades by the works
of bands like Evoken, Nortt and particularly Tyranny,
the former a band whom Of Darkness most resemble due to the unremitting
darkness that burdens their aphotic craft. Yet the Spanish
abyss-shapers seem to have taken this dismal, subterranean audial
nightmare of theirs to an entire new realm of majesty, using
experimental and improvisational ornaments assembled from unconventional
approaches and instrumentations quite unprecedented for the style, to
push their abysmal sonic magma into an even more blighted niche of
extremity, rarely - if ever before - witnessed at such a terrifying and
otherworldly state.
"Missa Tridentina" pre-orders are now available both for vinyl and digital formats via all our channels, with a global release date set for March 29 2024.
OF DARKNESS:"MASS TRIDENTINA" (VIA BANDCAMP, COURTESY OF OF DARKNESS):
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-