Описание
Helrunar – Vanitas Vanitatvm [New Vinyl] Black, Gatefold LP Jacket, Ltd Ed, 180 Gram
Artist: Helrunar
Title: Vanitas Vanitatvm
Format: Vinyl
Attributes: Black, Gatefold LP Jacket, Ltd Ed, 180 Gram
UPC: 884388407817
Condition: New
Release Date: 2018
Record Label: Prophecy
Album Tracks
1. Es ist ein sterbend Liecht
2. Saturnus
3. Lotophagoi
4. Blutmond
5. Da brachen aus bose Blattern, am Menschen und am Vieh
6. Vanitas Vanitatum
7. In Eis und Nebel
8. Nachzehrer
9. Als die Welt zur Nacht sich wandt
10. Necropolis
11. Der Tag an dem das Meer seine Toten freigibt
Founded in 2001, German black metal instigators Helrunar have gone from strength to strength, establishing themselves as a band approaching Nordic themes with brains. Records such as Frostnacht” and “Baldr Ok Iss” are regarded as seminal works for the country’s scene before the group shook off genre conventions altogether in favour of a holistic approach to extreme music and it’s topics. This is manifest in 2011’s double album “Sol”. While their sixth full-length “Niederkunfft” (2015) marked the beginning of a new era with recourse to archaic death and doom metal pondering late medieval superstition in the face of the Enlightenment, successor “Vanitas Vanitatum” shows yet another tack, albeit within a similar stylistic framework. Musically, front man M.D., who forms one half of the group besides drummer S.K., places “Vanitas Vanitatum” between it’s predecessor and the “Sol” era. “The songs are more compact and mature, also mostly faster, and again, more black metal. Apart from that, there have been influences you might call nostalgic.” With it’s title referring to a famous ode by 17th century poet Andreas Gryphius, Helrunar’s seventh puts the well-known saying (meaning “vanity of vanities” or “all is vain”) into a contemporary context, resulting in “our most cynical and misanthropic work to date in a consciously exaggerated way,” says M.D. “We address different forms of vanity and narcissism, which are rampant in our age, to reveal their psychological and societal origins and consequences. Both traits are contrasted by death and corruption to show their inanity.” “Vanitas Vanitatum” will be released on digipak CD, gatefold double vinyl and 2xCD boxset, limited to 1.500 copies and containing the digipak as well as an additional foldout booklet, patch and poster flag as well as a bonus CD with three exclusive studio tracks. Two of which are an interpretation of Einsturzende Neubauten’s ‘Prolog’ and ‘The Last Antichrist’; a special tribute to Norwegian black metal from the 1990s.
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