WHEN The Black Death LP REISSUE creepy Norwegian avant prog ulver Kittelsen NEW

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WHEN The Black Death LP

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(Ideologic Organ)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    Finally starting to see more classic When material getting reissued! I raved about Black White And Grey when that was re-released last year, and now we have the Norwegian avant-garde band's subsequent album The Black Death, originally released back in 1992 on CD, and now available on vinyl for the first time ever, reissued via Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ in a gorgeous, definitive vinyl edition that puts this album in its full context. A long-running experimental project from Norwegian composer Lars Pedersen, When produced some particularly dark and delirious music in the early years of the project, and The Black Death remains one of his most hallucinatory and chilling works from that period. Taking it's influence from the history of the Norwegian black plague and artist Theodor Kittelsen's book Svartedauen (The Black Death), this is comprised of a single track stretching across the entire record, unfolding into a surreal, sinister sound collage that slips in and out of passages of eerie musicality and stretches of nightmarish cacophony. Pedersen stitches together ghostly voices and mesmeric folk melodies, swirling dark drift and sorrowful threnodies for violin, creaking rhythmic loops and blasts of shrieking noise, forest sounds and spooky chiming melodies, swelling orchestral darkness and weirdly sinister Carl Stalling-like arrangements into an ever-drifting, ever-changing dreamscape draped in the stench of death and a bottomless, spiritual hopelessness. Grim liturgical chants emerge from strains of demented, dissonant funeral folk, and the mournful groan of a cello and the buzzing of a Jew's harp reappear throughout the album, adding to the folky Old World atmosphere that mingles with the more album's abrasive elements. It eventually coalesces into a stomping, almost martial climax at the end that is thoroughly fearsome, a killer payoff to the album's slow, strange meanderings through Pedersen's visions of a pestilential, plague-stricken medieval Europe. Much like the previous album, there are brief flashes where it's almost reminiscent of Goblin's score for Suspiria, or evocative of an especially surreal 60's Euro-horror score; it possesses an omnipresent darkness that was naturally embraced by those Norwegian black metal kids back in the early 90's, and left an impression on several of the key bands from that scene. There are definitely some similarities to Nurse With Wound's creepier Dadaist cut-ups, but for the most part Black Death roils with a weird and bleak morbid streak all its own.
    Newly re-mastered for this gorgeous new release, The Black Death comes in a heavyweight gatefold jacket and a twelve-page, LP-sized booklet that contains all of the Theodor Kittelsen artwork from the original (some of which would later be used for Burzum's Hvis Lyset Tar Oss) and liner notes from author Bjarne Riiser Gundersen and Bard Torgersen (1349 Rykkinn).   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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