Formed on winter solstice 2016, Finnish duo Aethyrick's Black Metal brims with a mysticism and magick that is simultaneously aeons-old and strikingly modern. Gnosis is a deceptively subtle spin in relation to its predecessor Praxis. One could almost argue that Gnosis' embrace is a warmer, more comforting one, its hanging and somber melodicism pulling on the heartstrings in unusual ways. But, pull back this development and one finds stark and glittering Black Metal suffused with the same mysticism and magick that so endeared Praxis to the intrepid and intractable. Obsidian sonics for dreamers and rogues, theorists and realists, this is black metal of a proudly purist stripe. Ltd x 500 copies with full size insert.