Monday, April 22, 2024

HEKSEBLAD: STREAMING NEW RELEASE "KAER MORHEN" VIA BANDCAMP


 U.S.A. based black metal warriors HEKSEBLAD, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release  "KAER MORHEN". unleashed 4/19/2024 via HYPNOTIC DIRGE RECORDS. 



FROM HYPNOTIC DIRGE RECORDS: 

ALBUM RELEASE: HEKSEBLAD - Kaer Morhen
It is always an exciting day for us when all the preparing that goes into a release culminates in the day when we can finally share the full album with you all, and today is no different! Hekseblad's debut full-length album, Kaer Morhen, coming off the heels of 2022's split album "Abattoir Dust Vol. 2" (with Vér / Nachtheir) and 2021's EP "The Fall of Cintra", releases today on Bandcamp, Youtube, and all digital platforms!
As for physical media, "Kaer Morhen" is available as a limited LP release, in two separate variants - "Lilac and Sorcery" which is already sold out, and "Yrden Trap" which has only roughly 20 copies remaining! Act quickly to secure one of the last copies. Shipping date for the LP edition is scheduled for July! We are considering doing another limited pressing shortly since the LP is already almost sold out but that decision has not yet been made.
A CD edition is of course available as well, released in a 4 panel digipack in an edition of 300 copies. CD's will begin shipping around mid-May
Album notes:
In the waning months of the cursed year 2020, as the seasons changed to the cold, dark months of winter two long time friends joined forces to create Hekseblad, a Melodic Black metal band who would soon take the underground by storm. Bruxa, a vocalist and songwriter from Michigan handles the lore and storytelling of the duo's music (Witch's Amulet, Fanged Imp, Bruxa, Oaken Palace), while Frosk (Frog Mallet, Groaning Retch), a multi-instrumentalist and Studio owner from Massachusetts handles guitars, bass and the entire production process.
Fresh off a run of successful EP releases and a well received Split (w/ Vér and Nachtheir), American Black Metal band Hekseblad returns in 2024 with the release of their debut Full-Length “Kaer Morhen”
Drawing lyrical inspiration from the works of Andrezj Sapkowski's beloved Fantasy franchise “The Witcher” and musically recalling the days of true Black Metal glory (namely the likes of Emperor, Dissection, Gorgoroth and Obtained Enslavement), Hekseblad delivers a furious and magickal take on the sound of late 90’s Black Metal; balancing on the edge of melodic but malicious with their furious barrage of riffs and tying it together with flourishes of Symphonic sorcery conjuring a maelstrom of frozen ferocity.
Kaer Morhen CD Tracklist:
1. School of the Wolf (4:16)
2. A Grain of Truth (Nivellin’s Waltz) (3:54)
3. The White Flame (5:20)
4. The Taste of Ash (5:14)
5. Ithlinne’s Prophecy (2:09)
6. Kaer Morhen (5:09)
7. Master Crafted (4:56)
8. The Fall of the Northern Realms (6:43)
9. Sodden (4:40)
10. Vatt’ghern (6:30)
Kaer Morhen LP Tracklist: (and specs)
Side A
School of the Wolf (4:16)
A Grain of Truth (Nivellin’s Waltz) (3:54)
The White Flame (5:20)
The Taste of Ash (5:14)
Kaer Morhen (5:09)
Side B
Ithlinne’s Prophecy (2:09)
Master Crafted (4:56)
The Fall of the Northern Realms (6:43)
Sodden (4:40)
Vatt’ghern (6:30)
Shipping: July 2024
Release Type: LP
Playing Time: 48:53
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Quantity: 200 Copies
Record Specs:
- LP Sleeve; with 60cm x 30cm fold out poster
First pressing limited to 200 copies, divided into 2 different variants
--- 100 in "Lilac and Sorcery" edition
--- 100 in "Yrden Trap" edition
- 140g vinyl at 33 rpm in black poly-lined inner sleeves
- packed in a plastic sleeve



HEKSEBLAD:   NEW RELEASE "KAER MORHEN" (VIA BANDCAMP, COURTESY OF HEKSEBLAD): 

 

 

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-