WEREWOLF RECORDS is proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Finland's VARGRAV, The Nighthold.
As momentous as those two full-lengths have been, VARGRAV arguably eclipse both with their third album, The Nighthold. With a lineup that now includes the notorious Graf Werwolf von Armageddon on vocals and Moonsorrow members Trollhorn of the Black Harvest on guitars/bass and Baron M. Tarwonen on drums, VARGRAV's swirling, cosmic surge has never been more potent; their attack is both sharper and dreamier, crystal-clear and opaque simultaneously. That added clarity creates more immediacy as The Nighthold kicks in, for the aggression of old is kicked into overdrive here and the synths take on a truly orchestral aspect. It's not for nothing that the album is a full hour in length: everything here sounds (and feels) HUGE, one massive velvety purple landscape of stained-glass visions as far as the third eye can see. And all 12 tracks are threaded together in a plausibly cinematic manner; while each is mighty in its own respective right, VARGRAV sequence every song with artistic flair and high drama, concluding the immersive experience with a daresay-soulful guitar solo during the coda of "Creator of the True Realm" that then segues into the nearly-10-minute big-screen instrumental "Ghostlands." What film or filmic realm one enters into (or leaves) is entirely up to the listener...The Nighthold is boundless!
1 Moonless Abyss of the Nighthold2:25
2 Through the Woods of Breathing Shadows5:43
3 Chalice of Silver and Blood5:49
4 Thy Imperial Malice4:31
5 Curse of the Plaguewood Lake2:02
6 Encircle the Spectral Dimension5:48
7 Triumph of the Nightbringer6:21
8 Into the Shadow Crypts3:52
9 The One Who Lurks Beyond the Starscape3:56
10 A Dark Consecration5:04
11 Creator of the True Realm4:08
12 Ghostlands9:42