VANUM Complete Work On New Album “Legend”
After a period of smoldering dormancy VANUM reappears, blazing and alive, with their triumphant third full-length album “Legend” to be released on CD/Digita/Tape on April 22nd with vinyl following shortly after mid-May via Profound Lore (USA/RoW) and Eisenwald (EU/UK). Stream the track “Adversary” below and through all other various outlets HERE.
Continuing the triumphant march of previous works, but raising the stakes even higher, “Legend” finds VANUM both expanding and refining their approach, and in turn delivering their most fully realized recording to date.
The core of the band’s sound remains unchanged: unyielding and grandiose Black Metal that traces a hellish through line from the power of mid-era Bathory, through the riff-craft of the Hellenic masters, to the bitter fury of the Slavic greats. But amidst the pantheon of familiar influences new touchstones become ever more apparent. With Legend, the continuum is charted further back and to new lands. Within the throes of the Black Metal maelstrom, echoes of classic heavy metal are increasingly recognizable, further bolstering Vanum‘s towering melodic sensibility and epic songwriting. Coupled with a deeper and expanded exploration and use of ambience and synthesizer, the album is imbued with a richness and sense of majesty that underpins each of its five towering compositions.
While musically dynamic as ever, the overriding theme of the album is one of victory. Victory amidst bloodshed; triumph amidst loss. This is Black Metal as spiritual war, the aural embodiment of ancient combat and heroic struggle. This is “Legend”.
Recorded in various locations throughout the country during pandemic times, “Legend” was overseen and mixed by producer Andrew Oswald and mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound. Featuring artwork by Petri Ala-Maunus, track listing for “Legend” goes as follows:
- Adversary
- The Gateway And The Key
- Frozen In Vile Illumination
- Legend
- Beneath The Pillars Of Earth And Air
