Runespell - Verses in Regicide CD
Runespell - 'Verses in Regicide' CD
Digipak edition with booklet limited to 500 copies
Arguably RUNESPELL's best-produced and -executed album to date, Verses in Regicide is highly familiar in one sense - grandiose melancholy given majestic flight, bloodlusting energy no matter the tempo, widescreen in its vast landscapes yet fiercely focused - but reveals a subtly newer side. Melody has always played a prominent part in the characteristic RUNESPELL riffing - equal parts classic Scandinavia, France, and Poland - but there's a multi-layered shadow of scintillating scales here that dazzles the senses and pulls even harder at the heartstrings. It's deceptively straightforward, but boundlessly deep; it likewise feels more urgent than ever while seemingly coming from a cosmos many realities removed. Put another way, Verses in Regicide is second-wave black metal born from the elements, where earth, water, and fire forge a new destiny when wielded by such expert hands as RUNESPELL's Nightwolf. And of course, those plaintive acoustic tracks, here aptly titled "Into Dust" and "Windswept Burial," chill to the fucking bone.
