On March 20th internationally, Adirondack Black Mass is proud to present Calvana's highly anticipated third album, Sub Janus, on digipack CD format.
Established in 2015 at the foot of the Calvana massif, Italy's Calvana exist solely to amplify the voice of the mountain as a singular, monolithic entity. To preserve this focus, the identities of the members remain shrouded in total anonymity. To date, two equally cryptically titled albums - 2020's IɅ and 2022's III┼ - stand as the documentation of their work, singular and defiant.
Now, Calvana emerge from the darkness with their third full-length, Sub Janus. As trend-free as ever, the record captures the primal rage of the peaks and the elemental wrath of nature, forged in the fires of old-school black metal. Rough and robust, their roiling screeds of fury remain as potent as ever, locating that ever-elusive balance between the cryogenic and the lava-like. All instruments hold equal weight in their rustic, all-analog soundfield - particularly bass guitar, an instrument often relegated to nonexistence in black metal - further grounding Calvana's elemental nature. Similarly, their old-school black metal truly does sound OLD on Sub Janus, never recalling anything remotely modern nor much else from the darkest past; the songwriting weaves through various states of hypnotic violence, with grim marches dotting the stark landscape, but perhaps only domestic enigmas Altar of Perversion could be the closest reference. Taken on its own, Sub Janus is desolate, lightless, and strangely expansive.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Death of Pan"
HERE at Adirondack Black Mass' Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Calvana's Sub Janus
1. Twilight Song
2. My Prayer to Diana
3. Summer Storm
4. Fear Makes You Tame
5. Death of Pan
6. Meine Süße Sternenkriegerin
7. Carnivore
8. Sorry
9. Sub Janus
