Hasturian Vigil Destroys Pretenders With a Riff Onslaught (Early Song Debut)
I've made plenty of references to the metal side of black metal, but allow me to reiterate: the best black metal is metal first. You know, bands who were influenced by classic metal bands and early black metal rather than a game of telephone played by contemporaries. It's important to remember your roots, and Irish black metal duo Hasturian Vigil certainly (and tastefully) pay homage to their influences on their debut: Unveiling the Brac'thal. With riffs that bludgeon, leads that cut, and a percussion section that pummels, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cxaathesz and drummer Shygthoth turn the dial back to a simpler time when bands like Mortuary Drape and Masters Hammer ruled the world and songwriting was most certainly king. Unveiling the Brac'thal's 33-minute length is dense and rife with ear-catching and violent black metal rather than the corpse-painted-turtles-all-the-way-down approach we hear in the majority of black metal today. In short: Hasturian Vigil rules in a classic way. Unveiling the Brac'thal sounds like a long-lost tape your cool uncle kept in a box in the closet, a relic from his salad days as a crop-topped hesher. Listen to an advance stream of the lengthy "Ikaath the Seven Horned" below.
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Unveiling the Brac'thal releases February 2nd via Invictus Productions.
