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Artist......: Sotherion
Album.......: Vermine
Year........: 2024
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: W.T.C.PRODUCTIONS
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (16bit)
Quality.....: 1098kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 10 tracks
Playtime....: 00:43:07
Size........: 346.9 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-07-07
S.Date......: 2024-05-09
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ztth0ghokgx8b
01. Shemyaza 0:39
02. La Mort Pour Compagnon 3:52
03. The Fallen 3:51
04. Word Made Death 3:58
05. Flame of Deliverance 4:34
06. Famished King 4:06
07. Blood Prophet 4:37
08. Le Havre Meurtri 5:10
09. Schwarmgeist 5:23
10. Shrine of the Chosen 6:57
Sotherion's crushing debut album.
Spawned by the mind of infamous composer BST (Aosoth,
The Order of Apollyon) in total isolation, in the midst
of the first lockdown of 2020, SOTHERION is a one-man
project paying homage to the late '80s and early '90s
second wave of black metal. Inspired by disgust for the
modern world and its deification of mediocrity and
glorification of rats, and motivated by a search for old
ways of recording razor-sharp guitars and low-pulsing
kick drums, the debut demo Schwarmgeist came to be in a
heartbeat, acting as a beacon for what was next to come.
A punishing and pestilent experience, Vermine
encompasses 10 tracks across 44 minutes. "The creative
process leading to this album was centered around a type
of sound, first and foremost," BST reveals. "Every
guitar riff is meant to emphasize this raw style of
production, widely reminiscent of the early '90s -
minimalistic music to leave enough room for the gurgling
harmonics of the saturated strings to develop." Indeed,
every blistering tone and texture here feels like
razor-wire dragged across the flesh (and FAST), but with
disharmony flowing just as fast and freely, the sum
effect is one of disorientation and delirium giving way
to inevitable implosion. Put another way, you don't just
try to "listen" to Vermine; rather, you merely try to
survive. "Suffocating" is another way to put it...or an
air-raid siren made manifest.
Not surprisingly, content matches form for SOTHERION. As
BST explains further, "Lyrically, the various themes
revolve around a darkened view of reality, the
ever-decaying modern world, the instinct to welcome the
death of all as the ultimate goal of the human
experiment - not devoid of a certain very cynical and
morbid form of humor, mocking everything sacred and
everything beautiful." That mockery just might extend to
the listener himself, depending on one's spiritual
coordinates coming into Vermine.
Schwarmgeist was released without warning, preparing the
masses for the inevitable infection of Vermine - but
perhaps that wasn't enough preparation for the full
fathom of SOTHERION. Hereby shall French black metal be
renewed by consecrating its blood pact with the past.
This is no more and no less than what the modern world
deserves!