A Shroud of Desolation, by VETUS SUPULCRUM

A Shroud of Desolation

by VETUS SUPULCRUM

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- Booklet for Compact Disc 4-page printed in CMYK 4/4 on 170g coated paper

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1.	His Almighty Excellency Of Royal Blood 06:06	buy track
2.	The Black Raven's Croak 06:20	buy track
3.	Trumpets Of War 07:42	buy track
4.	Funeral Pyres 05:20	buy track
5.	A Shroud Of Desolation 06:06	buy track
6.	The Howling Lamentations On The Wind 06:09	buy track

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Signal Rex announces April 22nd as the international release date for Vetus Supulcrum's highly anticipated sixth album, A Shroud of Desolation, on CD and cassette tape formats.

Maurice De Jonge is one of this millennium's most insanely prolific musicians. Focusing almost entirely on solo-projects, the Dutch master is widely known for the terrifying (and terrifyingly unclassifiable) Gnaw Their Tongues, as well as for a myriad of black metal-oriented projects: among them, De Magia Veterum, Cloak of Altering, Pyriphlegethon, Golden Ashes, Grand Celestial Nightmare, The Black Mysteries, and Dodenbezweerder. And yet, even amongst all those bands and countless more, De Jonge has also created a number of dungeon synth-oriented projects: Schemer Heer, Druk Yul, and most prominently Vetus Supulcrum.

Like many/most of Maurice's projects, Vetus Supulcrum stays true (VERY TRUE) to a subgenre's aesthetic sensibilities but then unabashedly interjects his own personality, making for a journey that's familiar and refreshing simultaneously. In this case, with the latest recording fittingly titled A Shroud of Desolation, Vetus Supulcrum aims for the most bombastic and folkloristic end of the wider dungeon synth spectrum. The root inspiration is very much still black metal, and its themes focused solely on the dark arts and the occult. But with its soundfield sparkling and 3D, A Shroud of Desolation most definitely conveys a soundtrack sensation, one of high fantasy and epic questing, given occasional narration - ominously, authoritatively - by De Jonge himself. It doesn't break any barriers, nor should it have to; the sum effect is simply immersive to the Nth degree.

Highly recommended for those who prize Summoning and Druadan Forest's most orchestral soundscapes, as well as those whose imagination is open to vast green splendor - Vetus Supulcrum will enwrap you in A Shroud of Desolation!

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Available shortly on digital from: vetussupulcrum.bandcamp.com

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released April 22, 2022

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