MORTEM - Mørketid LP (OXBLOOD)

MORTEM - Mørketid LP (OXBLOOD)THE SECOND STUDIO ALBUM FROM THE NORWEGIAN EXTREME METAL PIONEERS, COMPRISING MEMBERS OF ARCTURUS, THORNS, MAYHEM & 1349. Mortem was originally known as the Norwegian cult band which preceded Arcturus. Formed by Marius Vold & Steinar Sverd Johnsen in 1989, Mortem was one of the first black metal bands to crawl out of the woodwork in Norway, releasing the highly coveted and brutal 'Slow Death' demo, with Euronymous & Dead of Mayhem acting as producer

and the official EMBRYONIC demo The Land of The Lost Souls from 1990

MALAKHIM fully flexed every muscle and explored every crooked corner that had been there since the beginning - death metalled thrust colliding headlong with a majestic-yet-malevolent melodicism that harkened back to the ancient days of No Fashion and Solistitium - exhibiting a vital and yet venerable new iteration of orthodox black metal

- Limited to 1000 copies

The record forms the final chapter of the band’s Expedition trilogy

The band reveals a light

This is the re-issue with a complete new layout from the ealier work of Slagmaur

The album's ten paeans to the occult are at once hostile

Favoring some older techniques

- Exclusive LP-sized 24-page photo booklet by Jan Meininghaus

2025 remaster of the 1992 album (incl

Norway's Aura Noir was formed in 1993 by Aggressor & Apollyon in pursuit of a more thrash-based form of black metal than much of what was coming out at the time - particularly in their homeland - citing bands such as Slayer

the band elder