AZAGHAL
Nekrohelios

Nuovo album per il gruppone finlandese Azaghal, simbolo insieme a Satanic Warmaster, di un black metal ormai iconico che di certo non ha bisogno di presentazione. Ecco quindi a tre anni dal buon "Nemesis", l'undicesimo full lenght "Madon Sanat" composto da undici pezzi ed edito sempre per Hammer of Hate.
C'è un po di tutto in quest'album, un miscuglio di tutto ciò che è black metal nella sua essenza più classica. Di certo gli Azaghal rappresentano una sicurezza oramai nel panorama underground, maestri nell'esprimersi nella più profonda classicità aggrappandosi alle radici di un genere oscuro ma al tempo stesso genuino e graffiante, aggettivo che il gruppo rispecchia a dovere nella loro intera discografia.
Un tuffo nel passato dunque, glaciale e diretto ma con occhio rivolto alle moderne produzioni, che traspare fin dai primi ascolti che scorrono benone, con buon piacere dei nostalgici, vedi ad esempio "Kielletty sakramentti" o "Varjokuninkaat", davvero validi episodi.
Rimembrare gli Emperor poi, in una traccia come "Käärmeen riitti", risulta pressochè naturale quasi a voler essere un omaggio alla leggenda.
-Tratto da recensione di Selech magazine-
 

The album comes with a 8 page booklet and full artwork design. 

CD | Digipack + 24 paged booklet & poster

CD + 24 paged booklet

Full coloured cover with white inner jacket + 24paged Booklet & A2 Poster. Limited to 150 copies on 12" Vinyl.

Deluxe clamshell box with alternative art, containing the following items:
-Digipack CD + 24paged booklet & Poster
-Textile Flag
-Crest Metal Logo Pin
-Woven Patch (digipack design)
-2x album cover stickers (of both jewel case and digipack design)

The album comes with a 28 page booklet + Poster and full artwork design. Limited to 500 copies on CD.

Azaghal, the black metal pioneers hailing from Finland are back with their 13th studio album “Nekrohelios”.

Another sinister record by these old timers showing the new kids on the scene how to produce a quality record in the traditional old school way of True Finnish Black Metal!
Compared to their 2 previous albums “Alttarimme on Luista Tehty” & “Valo Pohjoisesta”, you can clearly hear on Nekrohelios that Azaghal went back to their original sound and roots from their early albums such as their long time classic Mustamaa.

The album starts with a haunting keyboard piece that lures your right back into that early 90’s vibes followed by the first opening song in full fury and blast beats! Azaghal is known for their well written guitar melodies and structures, obscure sound and straight forward pounding battery combined with harsh vocals that shriek throughout the album.

However, there is also enough variety going on, mid tempo’s, break parts, choruses and a lot of keyboard pieces which create that sinister feeling (think of early emperor without sounding symphonic). Thirteen also delivers a lot of variety with his vocals, from harsh to low sounding screams, but also adding clean vocals and almost choir voices.

All in all, Azaghal once again delivered an album that is outstanding in the ways of True Black Metal and with this the veterans show that they’re still far from done! True Finnish Black Metal that every fan of real underground black metal will enjoy from start till finish.