Ghastly

Ghastly

(color) Mercurial Passages

20 Buck Spin

***ON LIMITED BEER / MUSTARD YELLOW MERGE W/ NEON VIOLET & BONE SPLATTER VINYL!!! Ghastly return anew from the limitless wellspring of incomprehensible obscurity and dark inspiration that is Finland with its third album of mind-altering nightmare visions, Mercurial Passages.  All the elements that made Death Velour a rarified jewel return in full splendor on Mercurial Passages. The memorably eerie slow burn build ups, the frantically vivid outbursts of speed and dramatic trance-inducing doom fragments that together create a hypnotic psychedelia akin to being lost in infinite labyrinthine corridors, perpetually folding in on themselves. This is death metal for altered states of consciousness and mystifying wonder, rather than corporeal rot and earthbound materialism. The album is once again graced with hauntingly cerebral artwork from Riikka Pesonen whose visual elegance provides the perfect accompaniment to Ghastly’s sinister eccentricity. An album to be consumed as a contemplative whole, Mercurial Passages burrows into the deep recesses of the psyche exposing the dark subconscious to the edges of madness.

Ghastly

Mercurial Passages

20 Buck Spin

Ghastly return anew from the limitless wellspring of incomprehensible obscurity and dark inspiration that is Finland with its third album of mind-altering nightmare visions, Mercurial Passages.  All the elements that made Death Velour a rarified jewel return in full splendor on Mercurial Passages. The memorably eerie slow burn build ups, the frantically vivid outbursts of speed and dramatic trance-inducing doom fragments that together create a hypnotic psychedelia akin to being lost in infinite labyrinthine corridors, perpetually folding in on themselves. This is death metal for altered states of consciousness and mystifying wonder, rather than corporeal rot and earthbound materialism. The album is once again graced with hauntingly cerebral artwork from Riikka Pesonen whose visual elegance provides the perfect accompaniment to Ghastly’s sinister eccentricity. An album to be consumed as a contemplative whole, Mercurial Passages burrows into the deep recesses of the psyche exposing the dark subconscious to the edges of madness.

Ghastly

Death Velour

20 Buck Spin

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  While Finland’s Ghastly may be a new name to many, those who delve deeply enough into the death metal underworld, as 20 Buck Spin often does, will recall the band’s debut album Carrion Of Time released a few years back on cult tastemaker label Me Saco Un Ojo (Morbus Chron, Undergang, Phrenelith). A few years have passed and the band now resurfaces with their masterfully executed second album Death Velour. While there’s no question this is a pure death metal album, it could hardly be confused with most of the current bands making the rounds. The nightmarish hallucinatory sound Ghastly invokes conjures the horror of rotting in incomprehensible obscurity, passing into oblivion guided by a many-colored specter of strange origin across the Styx. An air of psych-induced weirdness and shrieking dread permeates the decomposed palette throughout the album’s cryptic duration.  Like discovering a forgotten relic of mysterious brilliance from the early Finnish death metal scene, this album is a phantasm of blinding light onto the foreboding darkness of this mortal coil.