||  Artist......: Warlust                                            ||
||  Album.......: Unearthing Shattered Philosohpies                  ||
||  Year........: 2020                                               ||

||  Genre.......: Black Metal                                        ||
||  Label.......: Dying Victims Productions                          ||

||  Source......: FLAC/WEB (16bit)                                   ||
||  Encoder.....: libFLAC                                            ||
||  Bitrate.....: 989 kbps avg.                                      ||
||  F.Rate......: 44.1kHz                                            ||

||  Playtime....: 00:44:52 / 335.93MB                                ||
||  R.Date......: 2024-09-28                                         ||
||  S.Date......: 2020-04-24                                         ||
||  Website.....: https://open.qobuz.com/album/bfvdylw1f0i5a         ||

||  01. Death Created Time                                  2:17     ||
||  02. The Burning Eyes of Satan                           5:59     ||
||  03. Wolvewhore                                          4:19     ||
||  04. In the Shadow of the Alchemyst                      8:37     ||
||  05. My Final Sacrifice                                  5:57     ||
||  06. I Spit on Your Grave                                4:50     ||
||  07. Primal & Divine                                     5:24     ||
||  08. To fall apart                                       7:29     ||

||  ne of the metal underground's best-kept secrets, WARLUST began   ||
||  their assault on the false in 2012. The title of their debut     ||
||  demo, 2014's Unholy Attack, said everything it needed to: here   ||
||  was blackthrashing METAL, steeped in the spirits of old and      ||
||  with genuinely evil blood coursing through its veins. However,   ||
||  it was 2017's Morbid Execution debut album where WARLUST first   ||
||  truly took flight - on burning wings of flame! More intense,     ||
||  more epic, more heavy fucking metal, Morbid Execution carried    ||
||  on the noble work started by founding fathers Desaster in their  ||
||  homeland and Deströyer 666, Zemial, and Aura Noir abroad.        ||

||  But, while that debut LP was still tethered to more              ||
||  traditional-style blackthrash, with Unearthing Shattered         ||
||  Philosophies do WARLUST's songwriting chops blossom with         ||
||  startling strength and crushing clarity. It's all immediately    ||
||  WARLUST, for sure, but within the album's eight-song/45-minute   ||
||  runtime lurks a travelogue of terror and triumph, of melancholy  ||
||  and malevolence. Calling it more "epic" would be accurate, but   ||
||  that only tells half the story, if at all; allowing oneself to   ||
||  be swept away by both teeth-gnashing thrash sprints and          ||
||  strident, swords-aloft marches is more representative of the     ||
||  experience, of total possession, in thrall to the eternal and    ||
||  unyielding spirit of Hell's heavy metal. Likewise, WARLUST's     ||
||  command of dynamics here is impressive, to say the very least:   ||
||  part and parcel of those more epic stylings, the narrative flow  ||
||  within each track and then from one track to the next takes the  ||
||  band into the upper echelon of nowadays evil metal. And the      ||
||  band's melodicism is, as ever, simultaneously cryogenic and      ||
||  burning hot to the touch in the grand tradition of classic       ||
||  Dissection and Necrophobic.                                      ||

||  Better yet, gaze deeply into the moody art work Unearthing       ||
||  Shattered Philosophies and see where WARLUST lead you!           ||