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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Akefal debut album on 12" LP vinyl!
-350gsm cover
-black vinyl limited to 300 copies
-2-sided LP inlay
-poster
LP & CD version also includes the 2019 debut 3 track demo “Repository of Stolen Fire”.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
"Opus Darkness" CD & LP version also includes the 2019 debut demo “Repository of Stolen Fire”.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Akefal debut album on 12" LP & CD version including the "Opus Darkness" and the “Repository of Stolen Fire” demos.
Includes unlimited streaming of Opus Darkness
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album
White print on black shirts
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T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album
Black print on white shirts
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Cassette + Digital Album
Cassette version released by Änglaslakt Productions in 2020.
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Debut release from Akefal (DK) including the bands latest recording "Opus Darkness" aswell as the debut demo “Repository of Stolen Fire” on LP, CD & digital format!
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released March 30, 2021
SHADOW RECORDS (distributed & marketed by REGAIN RECORDS) is proud to present AKEFAL’s striking debut EP, Opus Darkness, on CD and 12” vinyl formats.
A KEFAL are a new entity hailing from Denmark/Sweden’s ever-thriving black/death scene, and include among their ranks members from such esteemed cults as ULTRA SILVAM, TAPHOS and BLOT & BOD. However, on evidence of their debut EP, Opus Darkness – not to mention the preceding demo, The Repository of Stolen Fire – AKEFAL are their own band entirely, and one utterly DANGEROUS to behold!
At once deeply classic and shockingly modern, AKEFAL’s attack on Opus Darkness is unrelentingly wild and unremittingly weird, but all done in service of chaos eternal. In just four songs across a shock ‘n’ awe explosion of 11 minutes, AKEFAL evoke the lawless surge of Angelcorpse, Katharsis, and Morbid Angel but flay the senses with an OTT overload of feral frequencies ala The Third Eye Rapists or Necrovore. Which is all to say that Opus Darkness mangles the mind and body in equal measure, with clanging chords bending backwards at obscene angles and detonations of solo squall adding tension and terror, all fuzzed out in a manner that recalls the antagonistic glory of G.I.S.M. If all this sounds like “too much” of TOO MUCH, then it probably is, and AKEFAL are thus not for you: If you are a false, do not entry!
Appended to this edition of Opus Darkness is the aforementioned three-song The Repository of Stolen Fire, delivering the ultimate first strike of AKEFAL in a mere 20 minutes. SHADOW RECORDS is devilishly pleased to be working with this horde for future assaults on humanity and good taste.
Yet ANOTHER outstanding band from the Danish death metal scene. Taphos flirt with blackened elements to create a truly suffocating atmosphere. You’d be a fool to sleep on this! Altars_of_Mattness
Late 90's BM worship, but it's also a lil more than that. This album takes the best elements from the scene it's inspired by and mostly avoids the worst of it; the song-writing is well-written, it's performed with passion and fun, and the production is raw but isn't lo-fi. (i.e. it doesn't obfuscate and/or suckass).
Tl;dr It's safe but high quality BM. Recommended. Rabbit
I'm kicking my own ass for somehow missing this when it released. Expertly arranged death metal with kick drums that could demolish a high-rise. zirtonic
Culinary-themed melodic death metal outfit cook up a smorgasbord of fierce solos, tight percussion, and cheeky, foodie-approved screeds. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 11, 2024
What else is pretty cool about metal at year end? You find out all kinds of heavy shit that slipped past you during the year. What an amazing debut release from Gosudar. Sick riffs, head-nodding "from the crypt" vocals with drumming to match - this record is a beast and just fucking rips from beginning to end. Thanks to Dante Ruivo for the on point recommendation! bcb723