URISK “CALL” lp/cd
Urisk’s music brings together traditional black metal, progressive structures and atmospheric passages, with lyrics shaped by personal despair, environmental themes, Celtic folklore and myth.
With CALL, Urisk deal with the loss of wilderness, Gaelic culture and the mythical in Scotland and beyond. The title carries two meanings: the Scottish Gaelic call, meaning “loss”, and the English “call”, understood as a voice reaching out to remember what has been pushed aside or erased.
The album moves between grief, anger and the hope of return. Across its seven tracks, Urisk write about ecological and cultural loss as connected things: disappearing wild species, damaged seas and forests, lost languages, broken traditions and older ways of living with the land. These themes are carried through long atmospheric black metal songs, harsh vocals, layered guitars and moments of folk-rooted darkness.
CALL also expands the band’s sound. Most instruments and vocals were recorded in Urisk’s own home studio, while the drums were recorded separately at Liquid Aether Studios. The album keeps a raw feeling, but with a larger and more detailed production than the band’s earlier DIY releases.
“CALL” is now available on LP and CD.Vinyl is available on black vinyl and sea blue and black galaxy vinyl.
Listen to “CALL” and order the cd or lp here
or from the webstore here
“This is music that will pin you to your chair like being blasted in the face by a fucking jet engine. It will hold you firm in place as it spits centuries of bile and anger straight into your face, and yet there is a complexity to the album that you just cannot ignore.
The moments where Urisk do indulge deeper into the atmospheric side of their ideas are just devastating. They are like having an albatross strapped to your neck and being cast adrift at sea.
Behind the noise, there is actual thought at work here too. Call isn’t just a generic collection of misanthropic screams. Formed in Bonn back in 2023, the duo built the concept around ecological collapse, Celtic folklore, and the fading of old traditions. Even the album title plays a clever double game: Call doubles as both the English word and the Scottish Gaelic call, which translates directly to loss.
Across seven tracks, they tackle everything from dying ecosystems to erased cultural heritage, but rather than turning into a preachy folk-metal sermon, they let the fury do the talking. The whole thing was recorded in their own home setup before taking the drums over to Liquid Aether Studios to lay down the rhythm section. That extra work pays off massively. It retains every bit of that raw, unpolished underground grit, but gives the production enough room to breathe so the layered guitars don’t turn into a wall of muddy sludge.
It takes serious confidence to blend progressive arrangements, ancient Gaelic myths, and environmental despair without sounding pretentious or losing your edge, but Urisk pull off the trick without ever losing that sense of sheer fucking weight.
If you want atmospheric black metal that remembers how to draw blood instead of hiding behind endless reverb and acoustic interludes, do not sleep on this one.” the cult archives
BELTEZ “A Grey Chill and a Whisper” DLP
A Grey Chill and a Whisper is an album of incredible emotional intensity, marrying various elements designed to stimulate a variety of sensations and responses – from elegant, melancholy melodies to harrowing, heart-wrenching vocals, from sinister, spine-chilling riffs to dolorous, doom-laden chords – into an intricate tapestry of desolate beauty and intimate despair.
The album originally released in 2021, but sold out quite fast. So it was time to give it a re-release.
Also to raise interest for the band’s upcoming new album, wich will be released in December.
Listen to A Grey Chill and a Whisper and get your copy here
Or order from the webstore here
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URZIRKEL “In silbernen Sprachen” 12″/CD
3/4 of the members of Toadeater, but with a rawer sound
Urzirkel is a three-piece black metal band from Northern Germany, serving as the vessel of a forgotten messianic cult shaped by messianic tradition and ancient earth-bound worship. Through hymns of earth, blood and divine ruin, the band gives voice to fanatic disciples seeking communion with primordial forces hidden beneath the world. Their music manifests as prophecy — invoking sacred law, divine revelation and the eternal cycle of death, decay and rebirth.
“In silbernen Sprachen” will be released on the 9th October.
Check out the first single “Himmlischer Funke” and preorder your copy here
Or preorder from the webstore here
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repressed:
LÖMSK “Act I” CD
For those of you intersted in Vendetta’s intentions, background… I recently got interviewed by Veil of Sound.
Please find here the interview
