Hamferð - Men Guðs hond er sterk - NUMBERED LTD 200 Clear Black Dust Vinyl LP
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- Gatefold, including insert and download card
When this magisterial Faroese death-doom sextet's third album 'Támsins likam' emerged in 2018 - ten years after they first entered a rehearsal space - the highly acclaimed and powerfully emotive opus thrust the mourning-suited band onto the world stage. Five years on, the accumulation of plentiful live experience and interpersonal chemistry has had a profound impact on Hamferð's extraordinary fourth LP, 'Men Guðs hond er sterk', feeding into the artisanal sonic vision of guitarist and producer Theodor Kapnas.
Concertedly eschewing all the quick-fix trickery of modern recording technology, the band recorded the songs playing all together live in the studio, without a click-track. The result is a resoundingly human album that heaves, swoops and shifts in elemental style - from passages of glacial post-metallic beauty through sorrowful folky goth cadences, via icy blackened blastbeats to shuddering vistas of extreme doom mastery - with a crackling tight-but-loose interplay recalling the giants of yesteryear.