AN NCS PREMIERE: WALD KRYPTA — “OF DISENCHANTMENT”

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Apr 292025
 

(written by Islander)

On May 30th the Eternal Death label will release a new album by the Canadian/American duo Wald Krypta. Entitled Disenchantment, it’s the band’s fourth full-length.

Around here, this has been an eagerly anticipated album, because in their previous releases Wald Krypta have found for themselves an intriguing musical intersection. They are rightly known for the “raw” lo-fi aesthetics of their sound, but their songwriting really doesn’t fit the current template of “raw black metal”.

Whereas that songwriting template often seems calculated to be willfully abusive of listeners… and therefore often dull and uninspiring… Wald Krypta electrify the imagination, even when what their songs might cause us to imagine are very dark and dangerous visions. Their music has compelling emotional power, which the organic rawness of their sound just makes more authentic.

They show this again within Disenchantment, and we have two vivid signs of that so far, one song that has already been revealed and another we’re premiering today. Continue reading »

SHADES OF BLACK: IMHA TARIKAT, ELEVENTH RAY, WALD KRYPTA, VARNHEIM, ANGLACHEL, GEMYND BEADU

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Mar 302025
 


Imha Tarikat

(written by Islander)

Today is my wedding anniversary (it’s a big one, with a number that ends in a zero). Today the Associated Press highlighted some other events that happened on this day in U.S. history:

  • In 1822, Florida became a United States territory.
  • In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal ridiculed by critics as “Seward’s Folly.”
  • In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish.
  • In 1923, the Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrived back in New York after a 130-day voyage.
  • In 1939, Detective Comics issue #27 was released, featuring the first appearance of the superhero character Batman.
  • In 1975, as the Vietnam War neared its end, Communist forces occupied the city of Da Nang.
  • In 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.
  • In 2023, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.

Let’s celebrate! Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: WALD KRYPTA — “POSSESSED BY NOTHINGNESS”

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Jul 082021
 

 

Wald Krypta are a black metal duo hailing from the U.S. and Canada. To date, they’ve released two demos – Pandemic Winds (2016) and Lost Relic (2019), the former later released on cassette tape by the Eternal Death label – and two albums, 2018’s Nature Enigma and 2019’s Where None Remain, both also released on cassette by Eternal Death. Now they’ve readied a third album entitled Possessed by Nothingness, which will also be released by Eternal Death, on August 6th.

What we have for you today is the premiere stream of the new album’s title track, which seems to perfectly represent the core aspects of Wald Krypta‘s uncompromising musical devotions. Continue reading »