We are very happy today to revisit the daunting visionary music of the Australian black metal band Krvna, although the band’s creations have been anything but happy, and indeed so emotionally harrowing and so wholly engulfing in their power that they take the breath away.

The occasion for our revisiting of Krvna today is the planned January 10 release by a trio of labels of the project’s new half-hour EP The Rythmus of Death Eternal. It includes three extravagant new original songs, plus covers of songs by Abigor and Viking-era Bathory, and we have the premiere of one of the monumental new songs today — “What Great Lengths“. Continue reading »

The Australian black metal band KRVNA made its recorded debut just last month with a debut demo consisting of two substantial tracks. Under the title Long Forgotten Relic it was released by Seance Records. In its lyrical themes, and through the visions of imagination spawned by the music, it explored the vampire mythos from the ancient world to Biblical times, and the black forests and mountainous castle crypts of Balkan and Carpathian incarnations of the vampire.

Now, following closely on the heels of that very promising advent, Seance Records is readying the release of KRVNA’s debut album Sempinfernus. It too delves into vampyric mythology but in an even more expansive and far-reaching way. Moreover, KRVNA’s solo creator Krvna Vatra has disclosed more precisely the nature of his interest in the subject matter, and how it stands for themes that extend beyond tales of the undead: Continue reading »