Funeral Mist – Hekatomb (LP)

Gatefold sleeve plus booklet. The 2018 album from Arioch / Marduk. Released by EAL / Noevdia.

From Bardo Methodology:
“At the risk of sounding clichéd, the musical direction of “Hekatomb” is largely a direct continuation of where “Maranatha” (2009) left off, even if it’s probably more of a sidewards step than one forward. The vigilant could probably detect traces from previous releases – “Salvation” (2003), certainly, and possibly even “Devilry” (1998) – although this sort of backwards direction was neither planned nor intentionally applied, it just happens to be an aspect of my song-writing which has, for better and for worse, never really developed all that much over the years. As far as concepts go, this is in many ways just more of the same. More pious madness and twisted visions of religious enlightenment, more insightful darkness, more deceitful light; everything strewn with plenty of new and hopefully improved insights of my personal… let’s call it progress over the last decade, which is, all in all, the timeframe over which I worked on the consummation of this album. So, seen from this angle, the difference is unquestionably rather significant.”