Split OLKOTH / CAPEL BELUAH za miesiąc

 

On April 22^nd internationally, Signal Rex is proud to present a special split album between Olkoth and Capel Beluah on digipack CD format.

A sonic blood pact between two of the nowadays black metal underground’s most promising hordes, this split album between Capel Beluah and Olkoth features seven exclusive tracks spread across 44 minutes. Capel Beluah are up first, and strike with four ghoulish tracks that are manic delirium incarnate. Righteously raw yet somehow strangely spacious, blitzed and brittle but overwhelmingly physical, almost to the point of perverse headbanging, the UK quartet’s entry here invokes a diabolically authentic first-wave atmosphere. Names thus invoked include very earliest Mayhem, Hungary’s Tormentor, and Germany’s Poison, but there’s a wonderfully strange balance here between ghostliness and trashiness.

While it’s been three years since Signal Rex released Olkoth’s first two demos on vinyl format as The Immortal Depths & Treasures of Necromancy, it does not mean the band have been idle. In fact, to coincide with the release of this split album, Olkoth are releasing the Promo 2022 tape simultaneously, with both these recordings in anticipation of the band’s long-awaited debut album. And indeed, if their three tracks here are any indication, Olkoth’s resultant debut full-length should be malevolent and majestic indeed. On this split, the band offer two “new versions” of songs they’ve previously never revealed publicly, alongside another all-new track. By any designation they go by, Olkoth’s songwriting continues to betray a depth of imagination even when pushed through such a stratifyingly raw soundfield; the riffs here are smeared and weird, with a dusting of spectral synths to push their entry further into the realm of otherworldly. No more words needed!

 

In the meantime, hear Olkoth's brand-new track "The Infernal Ceremony" HERE at Signal Rex's Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Capel Beluah / Olkoth split album
1. CAPEL BELUAH - The Sunrise has Swollen Black [5:24]
2. CAPEL BELUAH - Invert All Harmony [6:10]
3. CAPEL BELUAH - Ink Well [5:27]
4. CAPEL BELUAH - The Mount [2:55]
5. OLKOTH - Of Evil Purity... (new version) [6:43]
6. OLKOTH - The Infernal Ceremony [6:25]
7. OLKOTH - Cold Dark Horizons (new version) [10:23]