Formed by Gall and Exile on the winter solstice 2016, Aethyrick have defiantly etched a unique Finnish Black Metal sound all their own. Bountifully brimming with magick and mysticism, simultaneously aeons-old and strikingly modern, the band's first two albums served as cornerstones for how to honorably uphold traditional all-caps BLACK METAL and feed it with a feverish creativity. Their third full-length spell, "Apotheosis" culminates their glorious march into the beyond - final and austere, and also as the opening of a new chapter. Where the preceding album "Gnosis" was a subtle refinement, Apotheosis makes that subtlety even more minuscule... and yet the sum effect feels grander, vaster, even liberating. They hold nothing back with their heartstring-pulling ethereal melodicism... the spirit-unshackling majesty of boundless illumination. "Apotheosis" fully brims with the band's occult character, now many decades walking the Left-Hand Path, and immersion on the listener's part is all but assured. Limited edition (unspecified) with a full-size double-sided lyric insert, and featuring gorgeous cover art courtesy of the masterful Timo Ketola, one of the final pieces he completed a week before his untimely death.