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Finally available! After the acclaimed and brilliant
official debut, released on the French label Cynfeirdd, WOLFSKIN
presents us the highly anticipated follow-up!
Within the last years Johan Aernus, the body and soul behind
this Portuguese act, has managed to claim himself a deserved
artistic respect and cult status among the ritual and dark ambient
aficionados who had the opportunity to experience either the
secular beauty of his collective side-project Karnnos
or the undoubtedly unique quality and inherent strength of the
mighty WOLFSKIN.
Staying away from the usual clichés of the genre and
strongly linked to the past, he continues here a brave quest
for the ancestral European traditions, celebrating forgotten
Keltik fertilization rituals, honour and victories of ancient
civilisations and a profound respect for the nature and its
untamable forces, magically transposing his discoveries onto
music, onto WOLFSKIN, onto Campos De Matança.
Enveloping, oppressive, yet evocative structures on top of a
magma of bleak, hypnotic sound collages of the darkest excellence.
A wheel in perpetual motion entwined with the manifestating
sounds derived from an exquisite, archaic instrumentation -
carillion, bells, accordion, tin whistle, talara and even ceramic
box, drifting a wide collection of carefully chosen eccentric
field recordings, like the slaughter of pigs in winter. Bombastic,
martial percussions plus an imposing, sober quasi-spoken-word
vocal presence on some tracks enhance the tone and give a perfect
aura of evolving mystery to the whole album.
Campos De Matança ("Fields Of Slaughter")
is a re-visited, re-worked and expanded version of the strictly
limited CDR of the same name originally out on Reaping Horde.
72 minutes of flowing ritual sounds mastered by the highly skilled
hands of Phil Easter for Black Box Mastering.
Limited edition of 599 copies in a full-colour 6-panel
digifile!
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