Blackthorn Debut Album Out Now
This week, the enigmatic Russian all-female metal quintet Blackthorn released their first official full-length studio album Gossamer Witchcraft. They’ve already got a growing cult following in their native land, and this release just might give them the global recognition they deserve. We’ve got some backstory on the band and other delectable details about the record after the jump!
The seductive witch-themed Blackthorn originally formed five years ago, and released the demo The Prologue of Eschaton in 2007, which the band poetically describes as a "work consisted of three parts, each a special night-piece in itself." Their theatrical and classically-inspired brand of dark metal cast them on a wave of positive buzz in Russia, and finally grabbed the attention of the UK-based independent label Ravenheart.
Recorded and mixed in Moscow at KIV Records over a year-plus period, Gossamer Witchcraft is described as a fusion of “gothic metal, symphonic black metal and classical music,” with lyrics inspired by “witchcraft, misanthropy and ancient cults.” In their own unique way, the band sums up the essence of the new material as a “bloodcurdling journey through the realm of vibrant shades under gaunt arbors’ claws to the end of the world.” In less poetic terms, it’s a highly atmospheric and hypnotic blend of gothic styles (in the old and new sense of that term) with a passionate delivery and undercurrents of doom. Track titles include Necromance, The Blackness I Prowl and Edenbeast.
Preview some of those tracks and check out more foxy pix of the band at Blackthorn’s official MySpace!
