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	1.	Mirrors of the Dead 08:24
	2.	Elemental Fires 06:37
	3.	Spectres of War 09:05
	4.	Unfurled Night 03:07
	5.	Shores of Nastrond 10:57
	6.	Vigirdr Fields 07:51

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IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present RUNESPELL's highly anticipated fifth album, Shores of Nastrond, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

By now, RUNESPELL should require little introduction. Since this Australian entity's public unveiling in 2017 with the Aeons of Ancient Blood demo - released by IRON BONEHEAD, as well as all successive recordings - RUNESPELL has sharpened its sword and quickly, with three albums arriving like clockwork every year: Unhallowed Blood Oath (2017), Order of Vengeance (2018), and Voice of Opprobrium (2019). Although 2020 didn't see the release of a full-length, a split album with the reanimated Forest Mysticism tided over the bloodthirsty until the arrival of fourth LP Verses in Regicide in 2021, arguably RUNESPELL's best-produced and -executed album to date.

That is, until the arrival of Shores of Nastrond: RUNESPELL's fifth full-length, and first as a full lineup. While last year's Sentinels of Time mini-album spiritually concluded the first era of RUNESPELL, it's readily apparent that that Shores of Nastrond marks a distinct second era, although one thankfully not too far removed from the iron and blood that came before. Joining founder Nightwolf here are drum titan Basilysk - whose vast resume includes the likes of Nazxul, Temple Nightside, and Pestilential Shadows among many others - and keyboardist Irrwycht, who concurrently numbers such bands as GRABUNHOLD and BAXAXAXA. Together, the trio conjure that same mystical & mesmerizing soundworld that's made the RUNESPELL name such a force in the underground, but there's a concerted clarity here - be it songwriting or sound, texture figuring more prominently in both - that makes the album's six component epics hit HARD, even with the solemnity of Sentinels of Time continuing here. Indeed, that supremely epic mini-album served as a bridge between the band's two eras: not just with said solemnity explored further on Shores of Nastrond, but also the stirring acoustic segments, which are more generously integrated into the whole of RUNESPELL's sound. Simply put, this is pagan black metal perfection, from an entity that seemingly already perfected it. These Shores of Nastrond crest and crash with blood-fire-death!

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released August 11, 2023

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