Dark Avenger
Great mix of melancholic acoustic passages and Nightwolf’s signature black metal recalling the old Polish Black Metal scene with themes of battle and war mysticism. If you enjoyed the last Eternum album you will likely enjoy Runespell‘s latest offering.
Kursma
Really like the dialogue between the melodic, but necro black metal and Bathory type of acoustic passages.
Favorite track: All Thrones Perish II.
IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present RUNESPELL's highly anticipated third album, Voice of Opprobrium, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Since this Australian entity's public unveiling in 2017 with the Aeons of Ancient Blood demo (released by IRON BONEHEAD), RUNESPELL has sharpened its sword and quickly, with two albums - 2017's Unhallowed Blood Oath and last year's Order of Vengeance - arriving less than a year apart. Now arrives the new full-length Voice of Opprobrium a year after the last, and the iron's hotter than even. Here, RUNESPELL consolidates its all-too-considerable strengths, suitably balancing the grandiose melancholy vs. bloodlust axis of Unhallowed Blood Oath and the urgency and unquenchable desperation of Order of Vengeance. Similarly, mainman Nightwolf maximizes the melancholy of his now-characteristic acoustic interludes, instilling Voice of Opprobrium with a somberness that chills to the fucking bone.
And once again, underpinning everything is an authentic and austere steeping in early '90s black metal classicism. Be it from Scandinavia or France or particularly Poland, such source material has been so widely replicated year after year, and yet RUNESPELL elusively continues to be able to both handily challenge those classics AND resound like an era-relevant relic. It's not surprising, considering Nightwolf is one of the busiest men in the shit-hot Australian black metal scene, maintaining as he does the equally prolific ETERNUM and Blood Stronghold. While still bearing aesthetic similarities to those two bands - this is the purest, most mystical black metal after all - with Order of Opprobrium, RUNESPELL further solidifies its majestic rumination on the mysteries of war and bloodshed, vengeance and valor, memory and destiny. Dedication and sacrifice - spiritually, above all, as well as physically - are once again the watchwords, and they've resulted in black metal wielded as weapon, totem, and portal simultaneously.
Mesmerizing, majestic, iron-girded and iron-willed RUNESPELL's Voice of Opprobrium is the torch to burn modernity down to the ground.
supported by 30 fans who also own “Runespell - Voice of Opprobrium”
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
supported by 29 fans who also own “Runespell - Voice of Opprobrium”
A Pagan black metal masterpiece.
Folk and black metal elements fuse into one extremely catchy and awe inspiring album. This band does not disappoint from all the high praise sent it's way. Abyssius Murkraken
supported by 28 fans who also own “Runespell - Voice of Opprobrium”
This whole album is flawless. This is music for walking in the rain and letting your thoughts run. It's not just a collection of songs, but an actual album. yakbone