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Cult Finnish black metal pioneers new album....
 

3rd album.
 

6-Panel-Digipak CD.
This version includes the full ep which did not fit onto the limited vinyl version (666 copies).

Recording information:

Recorded in Crucifier Studios (Pennsylvania, USA) on November 3, 1996.

Handnumbered Digibook. Limited to 333 copies worldwide
 

• Digipak CD with slipcase

Welcome to the third chapter of MISOTHEIST:

Vessels by which The Devil is made Flesh

The band continues where For the Glory of your Redeemer left off, delving into a massive, profound album filled with unpredictable, intricate Black Metal as we come to expect from this band.

Its aggressive, yet beautiful, with gorgeous and sublime melodies covered in darkness and torment. Each listen reveals something new; a new detail, another riff, another twist you previously didn’t notice, making this an unbelievable album that grows and pulls you in further upon each listen. The incredible songwriting and musicianship is something this band has gotten a name for, something this album seals once and for all!

Either intentionally or unwittingly this is a band experimenting with extremes. Formed in 1985 when Thatcherism swooped over England and scalped the North East, Hellbastard admit to being ‘’too metal for punk, too punk for metal’’, instead coining the term ‘’crust’’ as a way to feel at peace within themselves whilst simultaneously starting a sonic war that shocked the nerves into spools of frayed tape. With Malcolm ‘’Scruff’’ Lewty on guitar and vocals, Ian ‘’Scotty’’ Scott on bass and vocals and Phil Laidlow on drums, it was all captured with their classic Ripper Crust Demo debut release in 86’. But really, it's all encapsulated right here with this reissue also containing the follow-up demo-lition from ‘87 - Hate Militia.   Both are perfect ways to establish the nightmarish worlds, of death camps and dark sides, that wildly writhe within his group’s menacing worldview.