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On May 25th, through the collaboration of Satanath Records (Georgia), Australis Records (Chile), and Futhark Records (Canada), the Canadian black metal band Wounded Funeral will release their third album, Skaalp. It is described as a musical recital of stories based on dark legends of the First Nations: “Expressing rage, hatred, psychological distress, combat… The typical emblem of the project revolves around the world of the great Wendigo.”
As a vivid sign of what they album brings us, today we’re premiering the fifth song in the album’s running order, a track called “The Wrecking Of The Crypts“.
In short, this song is both a conflagration and a deeply otherworldly experience. The fires burn first. Without prelude Wounded Funeral hurl the listener into a raging blaze of caustic riffage, blasting drums, frantically swirling leads and hurtling bass notes, sweeping keys, and ferocious snarls and screams. Even when the drumming down-shifts into rocking beats and the emotional timbre of the music becomes more beleaguered, the scale of the music remains monumental.
But the emotional resonance of the music is indeed anguished and mystical as well as slaughtering. It includes big booming drum rhythms, mysteriously whining arpeggios, a slowly wailing and thoroughly mesmerizing guitar solo, the meandering sorrow of a flute, and other ingredients that collectively add an ancient shamanic atmosphere to the song while simultaneously steeping it in grief.
The trio of labels responsible for the release are providing it on CD and digitally. Find pre-orders via the links below. They recommend it for fans of groups such as Gorgoroth, Arckanum, Hate Forest, Panzerfaust, and Watain.
We also encourage you to list to “Wolfden“, the first single from the album, a stream of which you’ll find below. Like the song we’ve premiered today, it’s a multi-faceted, elaborate piece in both its stylistic ingredients and its moods — both haunting and exhilarating, forlorn and frantic, capable of taking your breath away in its wildly spinning jubilation and also creating wondrous but frightening reveries of mythic magnificence. The vocals are also gain shattering in their shrieking, roaring, and wailing intensity.
And there’s yet another song from the album you can hear below — “Wakani“. Perhaps needless to say at this point, it’s yet another powerful head-spinner and mood-shifter — soulful, reverent, and immersive in its harmonic melodies of pain and mourning, engrossing in the rippling ring of its moody notes, but also fierce, defiant, and sweeping in its scale.