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artist: Sodality
title: Benediction, Pt. 2
year: 2025
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: NoEvDiA
language: English
rel. date: 2025-12-05
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
runtime: 00:34:26
size: 85.24 MB
rip date: 2025-12-05
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/861372262
tracklist:
1. Precious Blood 4:48
2. Confession 6:18
3. Heathen Angel II 8:56
4. Pure Light Shineth Through a Simple Servant 7:29
5. Blood on a Mirror 6:55
release notes:
Five love songs for the time-ridden, mouldy Catholic cunts;
Praised be and exalted
With words and tunes
Those saints of old age,
Who their fate and devotion wage,
Only lubricated by Christ's breath!
"Benediction, Part 2" cultivates the same derelict impulse first heard
on Sodality's 2020 debut, "Gothic", and sharpened further on "...Part
1". This is Black Metal stripped of pretence, carrying all the hallmarks
of esoteric warfare and devotion pushed to its breaking point. Five
hymns for ruinous faith echo through a cathedral of spiritual collapse,
upheld by the smothered breath of saints, the weight of silence, and the
violence of belief. Guided by bursts of inspiration rather than
deliberation, the material retains the immediacy of its creation. The
riffs and melodies are swampy, evil, and suffocating, just like the
Catholic sense of morality and the divine.
Sodality's place within the NoEvDia catalogue traces back to the late
Finnish artist Timo Ketola, editor of Dauthus - arguably the ultimate
printed incarnation of the quintessential Death and Black Metal spirit.
Dauthus also existed as a small but fiercely curated label, and it was
in this capacity that Sodality were brought to our attention.
Timo's steadfast conviction - that Sodality's early material was a
'self-inflicted gun wound, possibly even partly unintentional' - paved
the way for his label's first music title since 2009, when Dauthus,
NoEvDia, and The Ajna Offensive co-released Teitanblood's debut.
After he completed the LP layout for "Gothic" but before it took
physical form, Timo passed away - yet his impetus defined the trajectory
which led to the ongoing "Benediction" cycle. "...Part 2" follows that
same line of transmission: stark, intuitive, and drawn from the same raw
nerve Timo recognised at the beginning.