NIEBLA FUNERARIA were born in Avilés (Asturias) in 2009 and have a wide variety of works, including several shared releases with CURSED SCROLLS, NEKROSPELL, MASTIKATIONE MORTUORUM, and the Galician band XERIÓN.
Usually in small print runs, some of them on cassette and released by labels such as Nigra Mors (Galicia) or It Lives in the Woods Records (Asturias), until Base Record Production (Albacete) released their first EP, "Würm" (2017), which has been revived here in a different format. While the original release of "Würm" was a single, twenty-six-minute track, on this album it has been split into three tracks and remastered, respecting that distinctive black/crust/doom sound.
The compilation of this “Würm I/II” is available on cassette and CD by Base Record Production, as well as on vinyl. The latter was released in collaboration with Base Record Production, Hecatombe Records, Romantic Songs Recordings, and Vinilako. According to the band's entourage, the album "Würm is a German river that, in Europe, marked the end of the last ice age, giving way to the 'temperate era' we're currently experiencing, as well as the Iron Age... and the spread of the virus that is humankind..." The main idea behind NIEBLA FUNERARIA was to make two separate EPs, one for the first time and one for the second, but in the end, it ended up as it is currently presented. The four new songs were recorded at Kollapse Studio (Lugo) by Iván Ferro, who has worked for BLACK BOMBER, KHMER, NEGARTE, HALFTRACK, and BARBARIAN PROPHECIES, mastered by Lalo González Dorado of Your Mix by Gonzalo Dorado (MURDERWORKER, CRUMMER, and LEGACY OF BRUTALITY), and presented in striking artwork by artist and tattoo artist Óliver Montesinos. As for these new compositions, we have four tracks in which NIEBLA FUNERARIA doesn't abandon their atmospheric black metal of yesteryear, although they deliver faster, albeit equally raw, compositions, as is evident in "Campos de exterminio" and "Miradas que observan." The lyrics are sung in two voices, while dirty, unkempt guitars sound in "Dulce final" and "Raíces del inframundo," without worrying too much about technicalities and instead creating a direct and powerful sound.
The three tracks from the first part are included as a bonus, providing more than half an hour of insight into the sound of these Asturian artists, halfway between black metal and crust.
Sample: youtube.com/watch?v=OPLvH1HGcNU
