"Up-and-coming Indonesian purveyors of brutal black metal join forces with a bastion of USBM to craft a dynamic and refreshing split of fervent, prideful black metal.

Versteck bestows four tracks (including an intro) of the best distillation of their brand of barbarous, uninhibited punk-tinted black metal. While this style is a path often taken in the current black metal scene, they stand out through coarsely perfected compositions, short yet poignant, more ancestrally influenced acoustic guitar passages, and mournful melodic clean vocals. While their output to date has been intriguing, the tracks on this split even more firmly plant them in the upper echelon of bands writing this brutish and ruthless form of black metal.

The always virulent and fierce Gehimnisvoll doesn’t disappoint with three tracks of the blistering, raw black metal that we’ve come to expect from Sceadugenga (Åndutsyn, Grundhyrde, Heorudrync, KAB, and more), especially on Geheimnisvoll releases. Geheimnisvoll is ever the embodiment of triumphant riff-fueled black metal with a castic triumphant swagger, and devotees will revel in this glorious offering. Waves of unrelenting sonic dominance, with unremitting, vitriolic vocals, swirl into the perfect storm of systematic chaos, building each song into its own potent, acerbic offering."

-EPH

US Edition of 100
25 Silver
75 White