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artist: Martial Barrage
title: Call of the Serapeum / Hail the Valkelion
year: 2024
genre: Death Metal
type: Album [REMASTERED]
label: Sinistrari Records
language: English
rel. date: 2024-11-00
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
runtime: 01:00:26
size: 140.12 MB
rip date: 2026-01-04
source url: https://m-hall.store/product/martial-barrage-call-of-the-serapeum-hail-the-valkelion-digital-album/
tracklist:
1. Skirting Byzantium 5:37
2. Of Eagles and Lions Rampant We Are 4:52
3. Blot 4:07
4. Call of the Serapeum 3:45
5. Talvisota 4:16
6. Below Yet So Above 2:53
7. Imperative Processional 7:27
8. From Behind Apis 3:59
9. Valour Invocation 5:13
10. Triheptaennead 3:44
11. Precipice 4:59
12. Solace in the Primeval 3:43
13. Upon Four Limbs 5:51
release notes:
Reissue of MARTIAL BARRAGE's debut album "Call of the Serapeum"
featuring 8 song of heinous violence and power. out of print for almost
two decades, this release also features their 5 song 2004 demo "Hail
the Valkelion". out now via SINISTRARI RECORDS!!!
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While there were many great bands in the early 2000s, as there have
always been and still are today, something had yet to be done. I needed
a vessel to channel furor teutonicus. Something brimming with the
conviction, ferocity, and militaristic traits heard in various genres
and bands, but primarily from within. Thus Martial Barrage was realized
in 2004. Recruiting from Winnipeg's active metal scene, we began to
rehearse material which I had been writing over the past few years and
recorded the 5-song 'Hail the Valkelion' demo CDR that year.
These demos were distributed, traded, and sold across the world via the
mail as was customary in underground metal at the time. the band
continued to work on new material I had written after the demo's
release. a small Canadian label called Sinister Sounds signed Martial
Barrage to release a full-length album the following year. this label
had been founded by someone known to the band members from central
Canada's metal community, but then as now, I wanted the band to stand
on the strength of its output. as such, the now long defunct Sinister
Sounds was unaware of who was even in the band. "Call of the Serapeum"
came out in 2005, containing 8 new eruptions of heinous violence and
power. this CD also made the rounds of the world's metal underground
and has long been out of print.
the sound captured on our recordings was always a reflection of the
budgets Martial Barrage had to work with, which was minimal at best.
Now these two obscure releases are available once again, remastered
from the even more raw originals with improved artwork and layout,
together in the creation before you.
Varanger, 2024 - MARTIAL BARRAGE