VELNIAS · Substrate Haruspex | BLACK LP

180g classic black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with special finish and obi strip, 12-page booklet with lyrics and unique album artwork, designed download card for the digital album.

Background information about 'Substrate Haruspex'

Velnias return with their fourth studio album, Substrate Haruspex, and it hits like a slow-motion avalanche. Recorded in 2024 between Denver's World Famous Studios and Nederland's Tvirtove in Colorado, this record is a dense, atmospheric journey into what the band describe as the unraveling and reconstruction of the self beneath the vastness of an infinitely unfolding Macrocosm. That sounds heady, sure, but what it translates to in sound is eight monumental tracks that feel less like songs and more like invocations - each one peeling back layers of delusion and confinement until only raw, elemental force remains.

Mixed by Stephen Parker (MAESTUS, PILLORIAN, PARAPHILIA) and mastered by Greg Chandler of ESOTERIC fame, the production here is everything you could hope for from those names - cavernous, warm, and utterly crushing when it needs to be. This is iconoclastic folk doom at its most evolved, with Velnias carving out a space that feels entirely their own. The physical package matches the music's ambition: 180g classic black vinyl, a gatefold sleeve with special finish and obi strip, plus a 12-page booklet with lyrics and unique artwork. A designed download card for the digital album rounds out a release that demands to be experienced in full.

For fans of:
Agalloch, Alda, Falls of Rauros, Panopticon

Other Versions

ONYX LP · 26,99 € MEDIABOOK CD · 15,99 €

Track listing

1. Impetus Arcanum
2. Divination of Simulacra
3. Resonance of the Concentric
4. Mantra for the Seeker
5. Corporeal Anathema
6. Nihil Equilibrium
7. Rending of Dyadiac Convolution
8. Forsaken Equipoise

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