***BOOK OF BLACK EARTH returns with their third full length album, the Cold Testament, eight songs confidently moving between influences ranging from Swedish death metal to nwobhm to Brazilian thrash to dbeat crust. This time around the keyboards are noticeably absent, turning it into a more guitar driven relentless massacre. The crystal clear production was provided internationally with CHRIS COMMON tracking in Seattle then mixed and mastered by DAN SWANO in Sweden. As always, Book of Black Earth features ex and current members of SKARP, TEEN CTHULHU, SPLATTERHOUSE and SAMOTHRACE. Limited vinyl pressing of 200 copies on white vinyl, 350 on black.
LP $17.50
08/02/2011
***REISSUED ON CD!!! The first full-length from Seattle's Book of Black Earth, originally released in 2006, The Feast is reissued here in remastered form in anticipation of their forthcoming Prosthetic Records (Kylesa, Neuraxis) debut, Horoskopus, and their October 2008 US tour supporting Sweden's mighty Watain. Punishing and memorable blackened death metal similar to early Amorphis (Karelian Isthmus-era) meeting head on with Deicide is the territory The Feast treads. Subtle keyboard strains throughout give an epic and vast quality to the songs (yes, actual songs). Vocalist TJ Cowgill's (Teen Cthulhu) menacing and layered guttural delivery coupled with the assault of Joe Axler's (Skarp) double-bass drum march propel the songs comfortably alongside far more experienced and noteworthy bands in the genre (Nile, Hate Eternal, Behemoth). Contrary to most death metal, The Feast is precise and over soon enough to leave the listener wanting more. Their new album "Horoskopus" is being released on Prosthetic Records the same day. "Both on disc and live, Book of Black Earth excels at playing dark, aggressive music that is absolutely mesmerizing." --Soundofthesound.com "A first-class exercise in what an aggressive, symphonic black metal album should be: vicious, catchy and uncompromising." --Voidofexpression.net "Everything is as cold as death and as black as an unwashed funeral shroud." --Terrorizer Magazine
CD $12.00
10/14/2008
MP3 $6.93
10/14/2008