New miniCD totalling 20+ mins duration of excellent Bloodhammer epic Black Metal close to previous album! Bloodhammer is also one of the bands who have stayed with Northern Heritage since very early days of label. Formed in 1998 and first widely available release was 1999 "Ancient Kings" 10" on Hostile Regression Records. Label that was soon to turn into Bestial Burst Records. Quickly after it in 1999 came "Monastery of thousand blackened lusts" 7" (Northern Heritage (NH-005). Material has been reissued, and will be reissued again during 2022.Split album with Incriminated (2001) and the cult album "Abbedissan Saatanalliset Houreet" (2003) came on Northern Heritage and after that Bloodhammer did many smaller and bigger releases on many Finnish Black Metal labels (Embers, Primitive Reaction, Bestial Burst, KVLT, Hammer of Hate, Breath of Pestilence), but eventually returned to Northern Heritage with "Syksyn Pimeyteen" 7" (2012), 3-way LP/CD with Annihilatus & Musta Surma (2013) and great "Kuusi Hymnia Syvyyksista" (2017).New mini album "Henki Tahtien Takaa" follows with sound and atmosphere of 2017 album. 3 metal songs and interludes create epic dark Black Metal feel. You can feel the Bathory esque influences among the faster material blend into perfect Bloodhammer style, that has zero nostalgia, zero trend following, zero retro spirit. Simply total Bloodhammer! Bloodhammer is one of those Northern Heritage bands who don't play gigs, rarely appear in magazines. Never really advertize themselves online, but always exist since their formation. Band is already working on next full length and long time bending plan to make anthology of all 7"s, compilation songs etc should be happening during 2022.Henki Tahtien Takaa is c. 20 minutes mCD. Vinyl version will not come urgently, but at some point. There new maxi-jewelboxed nice priced mCD's mark Northern Heritage intent to start publishing more material in such format. Expected few more mini-albums in supposedly least collectible format. Cheap to purchase, cheap to send around, no hype, no collectability. Only for Black Metal devotees.
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