No longer one of the metal underground’s best-kept secrets, Valdrin began picking up momentum with the 2018 Blood Harvest release of their second album, Two Carrion Talismans – epic, shapeshifting blackened death that was both timeless and fresh – and then eclipsed that achievement two years later with third album Effigy of Nightmares, also released by Blood Harvest, whereby the band dove deeply into the bluish purple depths of ’90s melodic black metal. To hear comparisons to Vinterland, Sacramentum, and Sweden’s Dawn wasn’t mere hyperbole; it was assertive truth, as commanding as Valdrin‘s songwriting mastery. Which is to say nothing of the band’s ongoing Ausadjur Mythos, a fantastical tale begun with their Beyond the Forest debut album and which forms the lyrical basis of all since.
Hear for yourself with the brand-new track “Seven Swords (in the Arsenal of Steel)” HERE
Tracklisting for Valdrin’s Throne of the Lunar Soul
1. Neverafter
2. Golden Walls of Ausadjur
3. Seven Swords (In the Arsenal of Steel)
4. Paladins of Ausadjur
5. Sojourner Wolf
6. The Hierophant
7. Vagrant in the Chamber of Night
8. Holy Matricide
9. Throne of the Lunar Soul
10. Two Carrion Talismans
11. Hymn to the Convergence