Description

2015 release on black vinyl with printed innersleeve and poster. Limited 500 copies

Secrets Of The Moon were called the chameleons of black metal in German Rock Hard magazine due to their style changes with every album. Although their style changed, Thrawn, who is one of their main songwriters, still has the same influences as when he started making music, like 1990s Swedish death metal. Their debut, Stronghold Of The Inviolables, was black metal while their second album Carved In Stigmata Wounds, featuring fast as well as slow, doom metal-like passages with keyboards, was compared to Samael. Some parts on Privilegivm, which is more experimental and atmospheric and less accessible, are close to doom metal and their fifth album Seven Bells is mostly in mid-tempo and reminiscent of Thomas Gabriel Fischer’s music, who aided the band on the recording. This material features tracks from a studio session for an unfinished album called Thelema Rising and were recorded back in 2001, around the time of the recording of their debut. When asked to sum up Secrets of the Moon’s music and what their music is all about, Thrawn replied: Darkness and death and LSK (also in Antaeus) added the word experimentation.

Track list:
1. The Devils Tempest
2. Condemnation (Of The Inferiority)
3. My Life For Yours
4. Leichengott
5. Blood Is Thicker Than Water-Impaled Nazarene cover