Sacred Rites & Black Magick:

Description

As on ‘Under the Burning Eclipse’ (2021), between each song on ‘Sacred Rites & Black Magick’ is an intricately positioned interlude building the ambiance and steering the thematic intensity of the album. Beginning with echoing, clean dual acoustic guitars, introductory interlude ‘Hymns of the Slumbering Race’ begins the procession of grand ascension and hair raising riffage to come. ‘Internal Fulmination of the Grand Deceivers’ flashes Stormruler’s brand of imperial black metal warfare, shining with heavy bass and blastbeats before cascading into icy atmosphere topped by smoke-cloaked vocals.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Hymns of the Slumbering Race – Stormruler
2. Internal Fulmination of the Grand Deceivers – Stormruler
3. Adrift Dark Halls of Vinheim – Stormruler
4. To Bear the Twin Faces of the Dragon – Stormruler
5. In Light of Paleblood – Stormruler
6. Entranced Within the Moon Presence – Stormruler
7. Invocation of the Black Sacrament – Stormruler
8. Sacred Rites & Black Magick – Stormruler
9. Oathpact – Stormruler
10. Ten Heralds, Ten Desolations – Stormruler
11. The Waters of Iolamita – Stormruler
12. In the Shaded Vlasian Forest – Stormruler
13. Amid a Smear of Crimson Cloud – Stormruler
14. Apparitions Across the Ravencrest – Stormruler
15. Sanguinare Vampiris – Stormruler
16. Upon Frozen Shores – Stormruler
17. Shadow of the Golden Eagle – Stormruler
18. Along the Appian Way – Stormruler
19. By Winters Long Passed – Stormruler
20. A Malice Dead & Cold – Stormruler