WEREWOLF RECORDS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Finland's WHITE DEATH, Iconoclast.
For a decade now, Finland's WHITE DEATH have built a small-yet-formidable canon of work that's come to define modern underground black metal in their nation. It's no secret that Finland has possessed one of the most potent black metal scenes from the early '90s onward, and with each new generation that picks up the torch, some are contenders and others are just content to uphold "the Finnish sound." WHITE DEATH took their time with deploying demos and then their debut album, simply self-titled, but they occupied a unique position between those poles: steeped in noble tradition, but exuding a confidence and charisma that rendered White Death an exceptionally nasty work even with its considerably cleaner production. Three years of silence followed between the release of that debut album and the three-song Promo 2020, which included an Enochian Crescent cover - an inspired choice from an oft-unsung legend, and a portent of grandeur to come.
"Everyone knows the curse of the second album, because the first demo or album is always best," smirks WHITE DEATH frontman Vritrahn. "People ask and hope us to do this or do that, and when we put out a few preview songs, there were complaints about sound, for example. So, not to please anybody, we bought the smallest and worst-possible amplifiers from the second-hand store just to ruin fucking great riffs and drown all the best things on this album under muddy noise."
1. Born from the Unholy Fire (Part II) 04:24
2. Iconoclast 06:18
3. Aal Apam Li Aamnuk 05:13
4. Strife for Blood 04:11
5. Life in Death 04:43
6. To Die a Thousand Times 03:50
7. Summum Bestiae 04:45
8. Phosphorus 05:18
9. Concerto of Sodomy 05:03
10. Celestial 04:27
11. Deathstruction 03:47