Blodulv - Blodulv - Gatefold Black Vinyl LP

180-200g Black

350g Gatefold Jacket

200g Printed Innersleeve

24×24″ Double Sided Poster

Originally released in August 2003 on CD only, Blodulv’s self-titled debut album introduced the Swedes with utmost crudeness and rudeness.

Immediately, the quickly-characteristic Blodulv aesthetic is established: hypnotic riffing teetering between triumph and tragedy, inhumanly howled/hissed vocals, everything coated in a strange sort of “clear static,” and the guiding lifelessness of their undisguised drum-machine, here charmingly monikered “the one and only Sir Electro.”

On paper, these foundational stones may seem underwhelming or at least par for the black-metal-underground course, but in execution, there was little to nothing like Blodulv back then. Even for ears well attuned to that underground, from the most minimalist Ildjarn recording to contemporaneously-young Bone Awl, Blodulv’s cooly cruising attack was exceptionally alien. 

The Devil was truly in the details here. “Street black metal” before there ever was a thing, Blodulv reveled in its staunchly Spartan contours: the songwriting moved at a sprightly pace, whether it was polka-fast or stomping-slow, either way excising any sort of aggression for something dead in its energy; the component riffs were few, but expertly threaded together in a weirdly hummable manner; even drowning in said static, the vocals were articulated to the extent that key phrases could blanch even the hardiest listener; and the secret star of the show, Sir Electro made drum-machines cool for the first time since the classic Greek recordings at Storm Studio.

Dingey and dungeonic, absurdly simple but sinfully sublime, Blodulv’s first full-length party-crashed a black metal underground that was soon about to have a second renaissance. 

Out of print since 2005, Blodulv 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!