Description

Black vinyl with lyric insert. Limited 500 copies

The debut album from Danish black metal act Serpents Lair. In true Black Metal fashion, every track on “Circumambulating The Stillborn” is fairly long with brilliant riffs, screaming, intensifying vocals, featuring extensive black metal atmosphere, brutal bass and drum exertions…some amazing thrashable riffs as well. While things sound samey in these long, gruesome tracks; “Mortui Vivos Decent” showcases some upbeat melodies, keeping the inner blackened thrash, very much alive. “The Serpentine Gnosis” is probably one of my favourites as it transcends the blackened thrash up a notch and is just a generally good sounding track. “Circumambulating the Stillborn” is dissonant, kaleidoscopic formation of Black Metal with an atmosphere that cites the listener to a moody background physics of tormented fashion. “Circumambulating the Stillborn” is an album that Black Metal fans relish the chance to enjoy, it might not be for every Metalhead, but it should still be listened to at least once; if you’re a rabid music fan looking for new material, support the music industry and just check it out at least once, and educate yourselves in the meantime while you’re at it. If you crave an uncompromised Black Metal entity exploring bleak, by means of musical hallucinations…this is for you.

Track list:
1. Epiphaneia
2. Epistemology Of Death
3. Circumambulating The Stillborn
4. Mortui Vivos Docent
5. The Serpentine Gnosis
6. Dwelling On The Threshold To Tartarus
7. Devouring Wrathe