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Hulder – VERBOLGEN Compact Disc Digi
£14.99
HULDER’s sophomore full-length arrived in February 2024, a record made during the deepest months of a Pacific Northwest winter and carrying that season’s particular bleakness in every groove. Verses in Oath is the fullest realization of the project to that point: ten tracks across forty minutes that hold together as a complete statement, moving between blast-driven intensity and moments of near-ceremonial stillness with a confidence and fluency the earlier records were only beginning to approach. The guitars are thunderous and low, the tremolo lines melodic without softening their purpose, and the synth work is woven into the fabric rather than applied over it: an atmospheric layer that deepens the texture rather than directing it. “Hearken the End” is the anchor, a waltz-paced, almost hypnotic centrepiece where clean vocal melody opens into controlled ferocity without the seam ever showing; the album’s title track surrounds it with layered guitars and a drum performance calibrated to serve the song rather than dominate it. The two short interludes, “Lamentation” and “An Offering”, function as genuine breathing spaces, meditative and strange, before the record reasserts its assault with the closing stretch. Mixed by Ahti Kortelainen at Tico Tico Studio in Finland, the production lets every element carry its weight without compression flattening the dynamics that give the writing its character. RIYLs: Ancient, Satyricon, Gehenna
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