Finland based black metal warriors ORDINANCE, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "IN PURGE THERE IS NO REMISSION", unleashed 9/11/2020 via THE SINISTER FLAME and DARK DESCENT RECORDS. .
FROM ORDINANCE:
On September 11th 2020 internationally, The Sinister Flame is proud to
present the highly anticipated second album of Finland’s Ordinance, In
Purge There is No Remission, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed sometime during the beginning of this cursed new millennium,
Ordinance have been a study of patience and pride. Not for them to rush
out releases; each creation comes when it is ready. No more, no less…no
mystique intended. Neither for them is the term “Finnish black metal”
appropriate, despite their country of origin; rather, BLACK METAL is the
only torch worth bearing in the Ordinance world. And so far, across a
demo in 2007 and the Relinquishment debut album in 2014, that torch has
been brilliant in its searing obsidian glow.
Naturally for a band that eschews wider visibility and the cheap
gimmicks or safe categorization that gets many/most bands there,
Ordinance have remained something of a “diamond in the rough” as it were
– a band too often (and unjustly) overlooked, based solely on the
strength of their recordings. While The Sinister Flame does not hold out
much hope for the public changing its weak ways, it is confident in
saying that Ordinance have delivered their most potent work yet in their long-awaited sophomore album, In Purge There is No Remission.
The title itself bears especial portent, as musically, Ordinance
literally leave no stone unturned (or weapon unused?) in their quest for
the ultimate expression of black metal. The sound is immediately and
irrevocably BLACK METAL, to be sure, but the duo bend so many unorthodox
means to their diabolical design – and, it must be said, effortlessly
and unselfconsciously so – that the end result is paradoxically
orthodox, or at least a stridently purer iteration of black metal than
one would expect given the band’s wild ‘n’ wayward attack. Thus, one
could say that In Purge There is No Remission is black metal by
language, but Ordinance‘s dialect is an undeniably unique one.
Utterly ominous, tauntingly sinister, Ordinance here create a seven-song
soundscape that manages to unnerve and unhinge the listener as ably as
the band have already done to their own spiritual parameters. A
dense-but-devious 50 minutes in total, In Purge There is No Remission
possesses an atmosphere that’s unpredictable yet unified, exciting but
never scattershot. This is a work of master craftsmen and cunning
sorcerers simultaneously, a delirious (and delirium-inducing) trip into
madness and mysticism: a reconstitution of second-wave classicism with
boundaries both broken and built. This is Ordinance‘s In Purge There is
No Remission, and it demands that only the adventurous and ardent apply.
Exclusive USA distribution by Dark Descent Records
ORDINANCE: "IN PURGE THERE IS NO REMISSION" (VIA BANDCAMP, COURTESY OF THE SINISTER FLAME):
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-