Description

Brown and smoked vinyl with printed innersleeve. Limited 100 copies

Norways Phantom Fire started back in 2029 with an honest desire to create the music they wanted to listen to when they were kids, Phantom Fire reeks of old classics, rust and diesel. Have you tried to listen to Motörhead extremely loud while driving a little bit too fast on the winding roads of Hordaland? Maybe not, but Phantom Fire has. Have you taken over the stereo at a home alone party in the nineties, blasting out Iron Maiden to most of the girl’s disappointment? Phantom Fire has. Eld and K.G, childhood friends, are still intent on ruining that party or whenever possible, driving fast in Hordaland. Its not about the credibility, and its not about the fame. It’s about playing rock n roll, but this side of rock nroll is lethal metal blackened to the crisp. Their first full-length album, The Bust Of Beelzebub, salaciously spans pitch-black speed metal and moody epic metal alike, all of it in (evil) obeisance to timeless heavy metal magick. At once decades old and years ahead of the game, The Bust Of Beezlebub bears an ageless wisdom across its succinct seven-song/29-minute runtime, like Aura Noir jamming out on some Cirith Ungol covers or early Omen getting turned onto the Swedish Cranium, and vice versa – on and on, ad infinitum, excelsior! Nevertheless, some interesting twists crop up in the most unselfconscious ways, like the spattering of spiraling psychedelic guitar or solemn Viking-dirge acoustics, altogether making for a wild ride across the hinterlands of the frozen Norwegian tundra…all before it’s lit afire. Produced, mixed and mastered by Iver Sandoy (Enslaved) and featuring an artwork by Hellbutcher (Nifelheim).

Track list:
1. Return Of The Goat
2. The Bust Of Beelzebub
3. Sweet Jezebel
4. Pihsrow
5. Shut Eye
6. Feed On Fire
7. The Ninth Gate