Stream VERMÖRD’s Nostalgic Predictions HERE.
The extreme metal authorities at No Clean Singing are currently hosting an exclusive stream of Nostalgic Predictions, the debut album from Baltimore, Maryland-based black/death metal outfit VERMÖRD. The stream precedes the independent release of the album this Friday.
Crafting intense, epic, ominous, music, VERMÖRD’s aggressive approach is more realized than ever on Nostalgic Predictions.
With rapid drumming and tremolo-picked riffs backed with occasional
chugging chords, the band infuses components of sinister death metal
into a wholly blackened aura, with technical and progressive tendencies
and melodic elements instilled throughout, noting Necrophagist, Emperor,
Decapitated, and Dark Funeral as reference points.
Nostalgic Predictions delivers
thirteen tracks in just under an hour of playing time, the record was
recorded by the band, then mixed and mastered by Noel Mueller at
Grimoire Records and completed with cover artwork by Matt Lawrence.
VERMÖRD’s Zak Kempler discloses about Nostalgic Predictions,
“This album is a cumulation of the few songs written shortly after the
EP, but the majority of the songs are from a hiatus time for the band.
It is a reflection during a time of many changes. The album features
‘nostalgic’ songs for us that were never released, as well as a few
extra writings that we wanted to feature.”
Within
their detailed review accompanying the advance stream of the record, No
Clean Singing writes in part, "...while the music at its core is a
fast-turning kaleidoscope of sound that’s geared toward causing your
heart to race and the top of your head to blow off, VERMÖRD
somehow also manage to lace the songs with mood-changing melodies
(often dissonant and discordant ones) that create varying sensations of
sinister menace, macabre horror, blistering cruelty, brutal desperation,
mesmerizing mystery, and unbounded ecstasy... there’s no real relent in
this musical flash-flood. Perhaps paradoxically, it’s the sheer
adventurous explosiveness of each track, one after the other, that keeps
attention riveted rather than exhausted."
VERMÖRD’s Nostalgic Predictions is streaming early courtesy of No Clean Singing now at THIS LOCATION.
Nostalgic Predictions will see independent release digitally and on CD this Friday, April 8th. Find preorders HERE.
Formed in 2014, VERMÖRD recorded their first EP, Dawn Of The Black Harvest,
in 2015 with Grimoire Records, the record surrounded by two demos. The
EP was met with solid critical acclaim by a wide array of metal outlets,
and the band had already coalesced into the local metal scene, playing
regularly around the Baltimore area. After winning a local Battle Of The
Bands contest for an opening slot for the Summer Slaughter Tour of
2016, their fanbase grew exponentially as a result. The band went
through a hiatus from 2017-2020, where there were lineup changes, and no
new recording or live activity took place, however, new music was still
being written. In 2021, the revamped lineup began recording all the
songs they had crafted in this period, which became their first
full-length, Nostalgic Predictions.
Watch for live performances and more to post over the weeks ahead.
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