HAIL SPIRIT NOIR Oi Magoi LP greek black prog metal oranssi pazuzu sigh goblin

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HAIL SPIRIT NOIR Oi Magoi LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

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     Now available on limited-edition vinyl in gatefold packaging with new, stunning artwork, limited to four hundred copies, and comes with an equally eye-popping poster.
     Hail Spirit Noir's follow-up to their dizzying 2012 debut Pneuma sees the Greek band moving even further from their black metal roots and ever closer to the creeped-out prog territory that they have always been in thrall to, but fans of the Satanic savagery that infected their previous recordings need not fear, this is still plenty heavy and plenty sinister.
     When opener "Blood Guru" kicks in, it almost sounds like some infernal blackened version of Goblin, jazzy percussion and odd time signatures combining with eerie vibraphone-like melodies and gusts of ghoulish Hammond organ, building into an ecstasy of grim, gothic prog rock; when the song suddenly shifts gears around the halfway point into a slower, more doom-laden sound with those organ-style keyboards surging up out of the background and the reverb-soaked guitars weaving their eerie minor key magic, it marks a striking new direction from the band. You'll still find some of the band's withered black thrash on tracks like "Demon For A Day", though, which moves deliriously from more of that creepy heavy prog rock into weird chortling flute-like melodies and parts that sound like an old traditional folk-jig, before suddenly getting whipped up into a blast of gnarled thrash riffs and pummeling double bass. There's also the ramshackle black metal that shows up on "Satyriko Orgio (Satyrs' Orgy)", one of the album's most ferocious tracks, a nightmarish mess of angular necro-thrash and off-kilter drumming that ends up turning into something completely zonked-out by the end, as the drummer suddenly shifts into jazzy percussive patterns amid the sounds of distant singing and sumptuous analogue synthesizers.
     Things get good and Gobliny again on the epic "The Mermaid", which has quickly become my favorite Hail Spirit Noir song to date; starting off with some wonderfully eerie Simonetti-styled synth that circles around the rhythm section's laid-back pulse, this song soon shifts into something much more deranged, combining their sinister heavy prog with bursts of heavy metal gallop and swirling psych guitars, kicking into one of the catchiest hooks on the album. Other tracks offer haunting occult rock balladry like the Black Widow-esque "Satan Is Time" and the blazing blackened psych of "Hunters" with its imminently hummable chorus, and the title track that closes the album is possibly the most evil-sounding track of all; as the singer's ghoulish chant-like singing drifts over the droning blackened guitars, "Oi Magoi" slowly transforms into something profane and propulsive, a phantasmic blast of infectious graveyard prog that closes the album not with a bang, but with a fiendish whisper. The ghosts of 70's era prog rock populate all corners of Oi Magoi, but this is so much better than all of that retro-occult rock dreck that has been plaguing us lately, thanks to Hail Spirit Noir's latent black metal tendencies. Very highly recommended.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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