Shaidar Logoth

***Originally released in 2015 by cult tape label Sol Y Nieve on a limited run of tapes, SHAIDAR LOGOTH's towering and imposing black metal masterpiece The Ritualist went all but unnoticed and now finally sees its first ever release on vinyl through a staggering audio-visual presentation customized to fit the utter majesty and uniqueness of the music. It's wretched spires and hideous silhouette appearing instantly magnificent and awe-inducing; its monstrous aura reaching far beyond the grasp of most trivial, uninteresting, tamed, and craven black metal that so much litters the underground today. Far from being anything traceable back to any "school" or restraining set of rules within black metal, with The Ritualist, Shaidar Logoth have instead unchained an inner beast of utmost dread and freed it of any form or restraint to let its savage and primordial instinct roam free to find its inevitable fate in inexorable chaos and destruction. Within these four vast movements of sickeningly magnificent atmospherics and dismal intensity the listener will face the same demons and blood-chilling premonitions of horror and torment which have famously plagued other secretive and reticent black metal projects like Leviathan, Katharsis, Blut Aus Nord, S.V.E.S.T., Skaphe etc.