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As the world circles the abyss at gathering speed, WIEGEDOOD have returned to provide a perfectly vicious soundtrack. Formed in 2014, the Belgian trio have built an unassailable reputation as purveyors of visceral and bleak black metal in its purest and most destructive form. Since unveiling their debut album “De Doden Hebben Het Goed” in 2015, WIEGEDOOD have blazed an unending trail for musical darkness, bolstering their burgeoning notoriety with some of the most apocalyptic live performances in recent memory, and producing two subsequent albums – “De Doden Hebben Het Goed II” and “III”, released in 2017 and 2018 respectively – which hammered home the band’s unique creative powers. Emerging once more, this time from the involuntary solitude of a plague-bound world, WIEGEDOOD are back with their fourth studio album, “There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road”. A ferocious tour-de-force, born of frustration and the ever-burning flame of hatred for the modern world, the new record marks a significant departure for this most ruthlessly singular of modern metal bands. “Musically I think we’ve made our most uncomfortable record so far. It’s once again faster than anything we’ve done before, and more unforgiving than the whole trilogy combined”, says vocalist/guitarist Levy Seynaeve. “To me, it feels like a soundtrack, for a movie yet to be made. A movie about the filthiest and most disgusting parts of human nature and society, and about the struggle we lead within, trying to overcome the fact we are all made from that same filth.” 

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Originally issued as a cassette EP, Plague Harvest encrypts the further transformation into pure dark ambience. Field recordings yanked from the trees like dead leaves mix with streams of electronics running beneath the soil. Included also is a bonus 10" of Ruination, The New Dawn Cometh , which was previously only available digitally, exposing again a precursor and foreshadowing of this cautionary tale that what sustains life can easily grow to smother it. Yellow paper jacket invokes the spirit of the original dead cassette.

The alchemic trilogy has finally been concluded. The cauldron is frothing in full force. These recordings were originally presented on three separate EPs, each showing a different side from the project. From lo-fi dungeon explorations to medieval astral projections, this collection offers a wide variety of sounds and stories for your nightly inner explorations or journeys into the vast, cold unknown. To complete the full experience, additional unreleased recordings have been added to this collection under the name of Waldgeistär , delivering all the ingredients needed for this intoxicating potion. The blood of the dragon, the black streams, the ashes of souls, and the ghosts from the woods. Drink the darkness, and listen to dark music.