Svartsyn "Bloodline" cassette (Bonustracks)

Includes 2 exclusive unreleased bonus tracks and yet unrevealed lyrics
- Ltd. to 100 pro-printed copies, including extensive double-sided booklet with liner notes from Ornias about the album (50 black tapes and 50 red tapes)

More than twenty years after the original release, two Black Metal masterpieces have now finally been made available again! Two defining albums that set the tone for the Swedish scene around the millennium switch, deeply hooked into the old and steady pillars of true Black Metal.
Recorded already in 1997, “Bloodline” should have been released as Svartsyn’s 2nd album, but due to several problems it was only released years later, together with “…His Majesty” as 2LP.
Now for the first time ever, Nomad Snakepit Productions has the honour to release both albums separately on vinyl and for the first time on cassette-tape format as well! Two different colour versions for each release!
To make it even better, both albums feature exclusive unreleased bonus tracks: “Bloodline” features two never before released Svartsyn tracks (“Vampyrisk Sömn” and “Tronets Slav”) taken from the first “Bloodline” recording that ended up being discarded, plus the album’s lyrics that had been lost and were therefore never before presented either!

Ahhhhh, Satan. The pause that refreshes. This one is a real coup for Sound Riot Records, not to mention a treat for any Black Metal diehards who missed this the first time it was released. Svartsyn (who started out as Chalice waaaayy back in 1991 as the second wave of BM was kicking in.) recorded this album in 1997-98 but never released it, for some reason unknown to me. It was finally put out as a double album with their third full-length "His Majesty" in 2000 by End All Life, but that was limited to 500 copies. So this is the first wide release for this album, and it slays.
Svartsyn play Black Metal the way I think it should be played: hard and raw, with an emphasis on riffs rather than speed. If you think of the first Satyricon album or early Mayhem you won't be far off, though there is also a resemblance to other more riffy BM bands like Ritual or Megiddo. This album just rages, from the opening blast of "Terrordemon" through one headbanger after another. This is one of those bands that just keep packing in the riffs, like Melechesh in a way, as they just keep piling cool parts on top of each other until you are sure the songs will overbalance from the sheer riffery. This was recorded at Sunlight Studios, and another plus here is that while the sound is very raw, it is also heavy as fuck, as they didn't skimp on the bottom end.
So you get eight tracks of total Black Metal slayage, one track "Waves Of Eternal Darkness" that is total keyboard bullshit, and then the entire two-track "Tormentor" EP tacked onto the end. For those who have been wanting to get this, as well as those who have never heard Svartsyn, I have just one thing to say: Get this fucker.

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