Blodulv - III-Burial - Gatefold Black Vinyl LP

180-200g Black

350g Gatefold Jacket

200g Printed Innersleeve

24×24″ Double Sided Poster

At the time of its release – November 2005, this time through the short-lived Eerie Art Records – Blodulv’s III – Burial didn’t necessarily signal an end for the band.

The year prior to that third album, the Swedes had released a steady stream of EPs and splits, as well as the Diatribe EP (through the always-cult Forgotten Wisdom Productions) earlier in 2005. But, with hindsight, the appellation Burial should’ve said everything: this was the end of Blodulv.

In most perverse fashion, they finally revealed photos of themselves in the liner, including vocalist Morn (longtime lyricist Aeifur was never revealed). Three photos of three official members…third album. The tombstone was there.

But what a way to end such a beautifully belligerent career! III opens (and closes) with a barrage of noise, suggestive of Morn’s successive work in Deadwood, Keplers Odd, and Culted; he would be the only member of the band to (publicly) continue musically. From there, the K-hole opens wider and devours the listener whole, revealing something that splits the difference between Blodulv’s two albums – the cooly cruising attack of I, the hypnotic near-Oi of II – but brings forth an intensification of both poles.

“Street black metal” to the very end, again before there was ever a thing, Blodulv upped the hooliganism here, incorporating both more thug-life stomp and running-from-the-law speed to the unsettlingly metronomic pulse. One need only listen to the arrogant-and-proud stride of “Imperial Sanctum (Bleeding Mercury)” to understand the fertile fields of filth that the trio were beginning to trample…if only one was unaware that this was also the end.

Nevertheless, at 47 minutes, III – Burial marked the album as Blodulv’s longest recording: their epitaph written in the boldest and most brazen strokes, the coffin lid closed with deafening punctuation.

Out of print since 2007, III – Burial 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!