Blodulv - II - Gatefold Black Vinyl LP

By BLODULV
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Originally released in January 2004 – and, thus, only five months after the release of their self-titled debut album – Blodulv’s tellingly titled II seemed possessed, right from the beginning, with sowing discord and disarming even those listeners already onboard with the duo’s depravity.
 
(Dis)graced with iconic cover art, Blodulv’s second album featured the same devilishly inscrutable fade-in as the first album – suggesting a Dionysian infinity or a vacuum of narcotic narcolepsy, depending on your psychic coordinates – but artfully antagonized with the liner notes of an “unproduced, unrecorded, and utterly perverted” recording. And indeed, Blodulv accomplished exactly that…but the fuller truth was even more frightening, and even more artful.
 
Make no mistake: Blodulv were true black metallers for true black metal people, but there existed a wider scope of diabolism within their sick minds. So, while they could no doubt create all-caps BLACK METAL, theirs was one perhaps running parallel to even the truest of the true.
 
To wit: II featured songwriting that was much more involved melodically – still stripped down, sure, but the phrasing was longer and more “complex in its simplicity.” Each riff unfolded nonchalantly, at first sounding majestic but soon turning mournful. Suitably, this elevated Spartanism moved at more deliberate downtempos compared to the almost-Oi! gait of Blodulv; once again, credit “unhuman angelpounding: the uncompromising Mr. Maachinaa,” the coolest drum-machine this side of Storm Studios.
 
And while many of the original wave of Scandinavian black metal were inspired by Bathory (and were always eager to tell you so), perhaps here on II was Blodulv’s closest link to the alien classic Under the Sign of the Black Mark, in the sense of a raw-yet-ghostly soundfield and an atmosphere of nocturnal ceremony and, arguably, a sympathetic style of melodicism.

Out of print since 2006, II will now be reissued on both CD and vinyl as part of Ophidian Sun’s campaign to bring the noble Blodulv catalog to a new generation starved for authentic mystery & mysticism in black metal.
 
Each of the band’s three albums will feature remastered sound courtesy of Temple of Disharmony – bringing Blodulv’s necrotic & narcotic sound to 3D “unlife,” as it were – and new layout inspired by the old. This is the sound of glorious times!