Today, symphonic black metal vanguard VARGRAV reveal the new track “The Gates of My Dimension.” The track is the first to be revealed from the Finnish band’s highly anticipated fourth album, “Dimension: Daemonium”, which will be released imminently by Werewolf Records. Hear VARGRAV‘s “The Gates of My Dimension” in its entirety HERE at Werewolf‘s official YouTube channel.
From the dawn of the classic debut album, “Netherstorm”, in 2018, Finland’s VARGRAV have almost single-handedly reinvigorated the oft-maligned symphonic black metal subgenre. Forged in fires from the ancients – founder V-Khaoz’s credentials are vast and stretch back decades – and stoking the embers last left by Obtained Enslavement and Norway’s Covenant and Odium, VARGRAV‘s first two albums stand as proud pillars of shimmering, classics-based obsidian.
However, it was 2023’s literally MASSIVE “The Nighthold” where VARGRAV eclipsed all prior achievements. With a lineup that included the notorious Graf Werwolf von Armageddon on vocals and Moonsorrow members Trollhorn of the Black Harvest on guitars / bass and Baron M. Tarwonen on drums, VARGRAV‘s swirling, cosmic surge hit a fever pitch of potency – and the filmic elements latent to their sound became a movie unto themselves. It was not unjust to liken this third album to Covenant’s classic “Nexus Polaris”.
Now, as their second era continues unchained, VARGRAV return with their fourth full-length, “Dimension: Daemonium”. Tellingly titled, “Dimension: Daemonium” sees an extension of the cosmic surge that so marked its towering predecessor. Pared down to a duo of V-Khaoz and Werwolf, “Dimension: Daemonium” is likewise “only” 43 minutes, but it feels no less huge. Songs strike immediately and then stretch out, the clarity even more sparkling, imparting a unique juxtaposition between nasty execution and glimmering atmosphere. Indeed, those atmospheres arguably journey to dreamier locales, but ones blanketed in the dead chill of space. Because in space – or, perhaps, the sad realm of the stars – no one can hear you scream…
Furious yet finessed, breathtaking stained-glass visions stained with stardust shot from a black hole, and darkly dramatic as ever: Vargrav cement their position as THE vanguard of symphonic black metal with “Dimension: Daemonium”!
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