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Beheaded Ouroboros Gatefold LP with 20 page booklet
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
* 12" Heavy Black Vinyl (180g)
* Gatefold (for 2 records) 350gsm board with 4mm Spine
* Full Colored Outersleeve Print as well as Full Colored Internal Print
* 20 Page Booklet. Full Colored. Outer Pages (front + back) on 300gsm Art Paper Matte,Inner Pages on 150 gsm Art Paper Matte.
* Full Colored Poster 24" x 24" in size. 150gsm Art Paper Matte
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Beheaded Ouroboros cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Cassette edition of Witchrist's debut album!
Includes unlimited streaming of Beheaded Ouroboros
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
This is the first full-length album from Witchrist, a New Zealand band playing death metal.
The production on this album is shockingly heavy; the crushing bass and down-tuned guitars summon a solid wall of thunder, broken only by the crisp cymbals and echoing, howling vox. Even so, the individual riffs are just audible beneath, giving this album an impact you can feel in your gut. Turn it the fuck up!
Witchrist combine Realm of Chaos-era Bolt Thrower, old Incantation, and militant black metal into a monolithic mass of eerie, shifting riffs and pounding drums. Slow, doomy sections occasionally break the surface, struggle, then drown beneath the churning surface. Something like this could easily have been entirely devoid of structure, but the discerning listener will discover a rich vein of distinct riff patterns and drum lines beneath the chaos; songs like "The Cauldron" pack multiple layers of guitar work into a single coherent whole. Likewise, the filthy, disgusting vocals lurk just within the realm of sanity, luring the unwary listener into penetrating deeper into the secrets of the Beheaded Ourorboros.
This album's combination of overwhelming atmosphere and hidden complexity is exceptional; both are in full flourish here, yet neither subtracts from the other. This album is a constant challenge -- mesmerizing and hypnotic one moment, mind-blowingly complicated the next -- and thus rewards multiple listens like no other. From the crushing, reverberating force of "Sorcerer of Lightning" to the dual-vocal insanity of "Deathbitch", there's more than enough for three or four albums here... which is probably why Beheaded Ouroboros is better than any three or four albums I can name this year, also.
I simply cannot heap enough praise on this release. It's albums like this which have kept the torch burning for the last twenty years... and if Witchrist is any example of the creativity and vital force which remains within metal, the fire will blaze for decades yet to come. Highest recommendations.
credits
released August 23, 2010
Occultorture, Abomination, Atrociter , C. Sinclair
supported by 108 fans who also own “Beheaded Ouroboros”
This whole album is flawless. This is music for walking in the rain and letting your thoughts run. It's not just a collection of songs, but an actual album. yakbone
supported by 101 fans who also own “Beheaded Ouroboros”
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten