VICTIMARUM - Seitsemän soihdun valossa, CD/LP/DIGITAL out this October

Signal Rex announces October 11tth as the international release date for Victimarum's highly anticipated debut album, Seitsemän soihdun valossa, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Forming in 2022, Finland's Victimarum quickly set to work on upholding the sterling standards of their nation's underground black metal scene. A demo and an EP followed the next year, the latter including a Horna cover, which indeed underlines the lineage from which they spring: cold and yet intensely melodic, "freezing fire" of a most early 2000s vintage. Those who know already know the names, and it's a banner still worth raising.

And Victimarum raise it even higher with their full-length debut, Seitsemän soihdun valossa. With strength & honor and Satanic black devotion, the quartet here unload nine screeds of melancholic misery set to speeding stun. Incensed but not without a certain sense of ragged glory, Victimarum uphold that iron-clad template set out by their forebears and bolster it with strong songwriting and even-stronger execution. The sounds may be familiar, but as the album plays on, the Finns' personality shines through, with deft shifts in tempo and a slightly-more-pronounced propensity for the climatic coming to the fore. Likewise, Victimarum wisely locate a production style that's on the right side of polished, the grit coming not through the sound itself but rather through the playing: you FEEL this, every second of its 44-minute runtime. Banners raised!

Tracklisting
1. Alkusoitto
2. Hovissa yön ruhtinaan
3. Tulenkantaja
4. Seitsemän soihdun valossa
5. Kuolemalle
6. Iäti vuoksesi
7. Verimyrsky
8. Välisoitto
9. Ilmestysten Kuningas

• Mixing by Sammas Audio
• Mastering by Oriflamme Audio