***After forming in 2007 and their ensuing years of touring, festival appearances, and obscure limited releases (like their now infamous 2008 rehearsal demo and 2010’s ‘V: A Sepulchur to Swalow the Sea‘ 7”), which Brooklyn Vegan hailed as “blastingly powerful”), Richmond, VA’s BASTARD SAPLING release of their debut full-length. Entitled Dragged From Our Restless Trance, the album offers four songs and forthy minutes’ worth of cold, atmospheric, adventurous black metal. Bastard Sapling straddle the divide between the best moments of Immortal, Bathory, and vintage Ulver, taking cues from old-school Darkthrone and recalling the majestic atmosphere of Drudkh and Hate Forest, and augmented by an appealingly raw but listenable production and a DIY-or-die ethos. Limited to 500 copies on marbled obsidian black & cocaine white vinyl, packaged as a gatefold LP with black dust sleeves, insert, patch, and download card included.