With Primeval Force, by Vampire

With Primeval Force

by Vampire

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	1.	Knights Of The Burning Crypt 04:47
	2.	He Who Speaks 03:26
	3.	Metamorfosis 03:53
	4.	Skull Prayer 02:20
	5.	Midnight Trial 04:46
	6.	Revenants 06:14
	7.	Ghoul Wind 03:24
	8.	Initiation Rite 04:35
	9.	Scylla 04:39

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Recorded over 10 days at Nacksving Studios (Opeth, Dark Tranquillity) with engineer and studio owner Isak Edh, With Primeval Force continues Vampire’s commitment to tracking on vintage gear as well as their professional ear for a good, if truculent sound. The new album was handled in split sessions in 2016. One in May. The other in November. The group also revisited Nacksving later on to lay down additional guitar work, keyboards, and vocals. The entire Nacksving experience turned out to be not just routine but enlightening.

“We wanted to try something else for With Primeval Force,” Black String admits. “So, we decided to go for Studio Nacksving, who are actually also known for their long experience and vintage equipment, just like the studio we used for our previous output. But the main reason With Primeval Force sounds different from our debut album is because we’ve become a bit more experienced recording and mixing ourselves. If you don’t know which knobs to adjust, it can be hard to push the studio engineer in the direction you desire.”

If With Primeval Force is Vampire’s musical hail to their influences and a statement of their own innovation, then lyrically it’s on another Stygian plane. As Hand of Doom intoned earlier, Vampire are well versed in the hideous yet seductive imagery crafted by H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and M.R. James. As with the music, so too the lyrics. They’ve parlayed Victorian and Romantic visions of the supernatural into their own.

“As suggested by the album title and the cover artwork, the lyrics deal with the obscure and the gro-tesque, with arcane energies and the rise of fallen idols,” Hand of Doom reveals. “Recurring motifs are dark aspects of ancient cultures, violent interventions from beyond the grave and elevating experiences of the supernatural or the divine. Compared to previous Vampire songs, these lyrics draw less influences from, and refer less to, already existing works of art in the same genre.”

With savage music and spine-chilling lyrics, Vampire are breaking the seals of seven with With Primeval Force. They are readying for supernal battle. And if the beasts and minions of darkness and the warriors of light don’t collide in planet-shattering might upon its release, then, at the very least, the Swedes have their bags packed to hit the road in support of With Primeval Force.

“Let’s say we don’t want to miss great opportunities,” muses Black String. “We will begin the With Pri-meval Force cycle with a bunch of shows in Scandinavia.”

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released April 21, 2017

Line-Up:
Black string – guitars
Hand of Doom – vocals
Sepulchral Condor – guitars
Abysmal Condor – drums
Command – bass o

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