Hexenbrett - Cemetery Sounds

DVP 150 Hexenbrett – Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten LP/CD/MC

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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present HEXENBRETT’s highly anticipated debut album, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

It was at the dawn of 2019 when a strange little demo inconspicuously announced itself from the other side and introduced the sound of the bloody iris. Titled Erste Beschwörung, it was the first public recording of one HEXENBRETT, the work of a mysterious duo revealing themselves as Josto Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétte. This was a literal bolt from the blue, sounds that were as refreshingly new as they were authentically old. “Cemetery sounds” is what the band called them, but that only told half the story. Wild and wily, HEXENBRETT unloaded a dizzying payload of sounds both traditional and unorthodox, dumping into its hot-rockin’ cauldron spices from first-wave black metal, Iron Curtain-era speed metal, outsider doom, and even old-school deathrock. It was a kaleidoscopic spin, and caught the attention of Caligari Records (who did a wider cassette release) and then DYING VICTIMS with their 12” vinyl version toward the end of the year. Lots of other, strange-starved ears picked up on it, too.

The stage thus set, HEXENBRETT proceeds to defy expectations and obliterate the slate with its debut album, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten. A record of stark contrasts, Zweite Beschwörung immediately sounds definitively like HEXENBRETT: roaming ancient cemeteries with a torch in hand, conjuring the madness and mysticism of early black metal, when unorthodoxy was celebrated and no blueprints yet existed – only paths to be blazed! But, that latter element is precisely where Zweite Beschwörung takes a different turn, delving into waters both more refined and more rarefied, more straightforward and more obtuse – more METAL, epic and outlandish and “true,” but decidedly in an un-metal manner – beguiling the senses either way, and addictively so. It’s a turn that’s directly inspired by such sources as varied as Varathron, Jean Rollin, Danzig, Goblin, and Van Halen, and yet emerging completely unique and unlike little else around. A diverse journey through mouldy crypts and deranged minds, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten features eight original tracks and an astonishing cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “The Spider Song”.

Quite commandingly, HEXENBRETT reveal an uncanny knack for songcraft, building defined and endearing hooks that unfold unexpectedly yet thrillingly, the intensity constantly rising and falling with preternatural ease but always in service of the song. Elsewhere, the band coats its creations with subtle layers of synth, further fanning that otherworldly atmosphere that laid in wait across the demo while ragged aggression usually took over. Which is all to say nothing of the absolutely spellbinding chimes often employed, evoking a banquet of horror with an almost-filmic quality in line with the band’s love for European cult cinema. And, fittingly, the production across Zweite Beschwörung is richly analog, scrappy but shimmering, evincing a totality of design and just-professional-enough presentation without sacrificing the entity’s original ethics. Like most first albums should be, the tale of HEXENBRETT truly begins here.

If there was ever any question about HEXENBRETT’s singular nature, just beginning to bloom, simply gaze upon the cover art to Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten. All other paths blazed, this is the only one left, and it’s HEXENBRETT’s alone… The dead will dance, expect the unexpected!

- Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
- SOLD OUT: Special edition on colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
- CD comes with Sticker
- Regular MC edition with sticker and button.
- Special MC edition with sticker and metal pin.
 
DVP 140 Hexenbrett – Erste Beschwörung MCD edition + MLP Repress

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HEXENBRETT is an entity that provides cemetery sounds exclusively. The first invocation, fittingly entitled Erste Beschwörung, is a sample of what will follow in the future. Roaming ancient dungeons with sword in one hand and torch in the other, HEXENBRETT conjures the madness and mysticism of olde-worlde black metal, when unorthodoxy was celebrated and no blueprints yet existed – only paths to be blazed! Indeed does HEXENBRETT blaze across this four-song/19-minute offering, remaining firmly rooted in the purest metals but fanning those flames with a creepy, coffin-dwelling atmosphere that puts Erste Beschwörung in a league all its own, also incorporating eldritch doom and deathrock into this wildly bubbling cauldron. And it’s early days still…

No boundaries, no limitations: HEXENBRETT digs its own unique grave with Erste Beschwörung, and the cemetery is wide-fucking-open. The spell was cast, the demons are here – let the haunting begin!

REPRESS with slightly adjusted layout and patch.
- Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker and download code.
- Special edition on clear vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, download code and patch.
- MCD comes with Sticker


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Hab mir jetzt die zweite Beschwörung mal angehört, aber ich glaube, momentan reicht mir das erste Tape. Die E-Glocken gingen mir innerhalb kürzester Zeit enorm auf den Sack; ich glaube nicht, dass das als nachhaltiger Effekt taugt. Geschrieben sind die Songs ja großteils gut, den letzten fand ich sogar richtig super, aber mein Fall ist das nicht, alles mit so einem Klimbim zuzustellen, wenn man doch eh brauchbare Riffs hat.
 
Ich habe das Album nun noch ein paar Mal gehört. Die A-Seite ist verdammt gut geworden, sie B-Seite finde ich "nur gut". Was mir sehr gefällt, ist der Detailreichtum mit immer wieder eingeworfenen Samples, Glöckchen (?) & natürlich die Keyboards. Dabei bleibt das Teil aber immer noch schön kauzig, aber nicht so übertrieben kauzig, dass es nerven würde. Die Scheibe glänzt vor allem durch das genreübergreifende Songwriting und die Vocals, welche ich richtig abfeiere. Meine Top Tracks sind mit Abstand das Doppel: "Spalovač mrtvol" & "La tumba de los muertos vivientes".

Das abrupte Ende ist etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, sehe ich aber nicht als wirklich kritisch an. Wobei man da schön nochmal auf den Gitarren und Drums rumprügeln hätte können. Aber das kommt dann bestimmt live.

Falls (!) Hammaburg stattfinden wird, werde ich mich am meisten auf die Band freuen und die erste Reihe zerlegen!

Freu mich bereits schon auf die dritte Beschwörung.
 
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HEXENBRETT – Le Requiem des Vampires Longsleeve Shirt

Silkscreened Longsleeve Shirt accompanying HEXENBRETT’s debut album “Zweite Beschwörung: ein Kind zu Töten”.

Printed on Gildan Ultra Black Longsleeve Shirts.

– front print
– two arm prints
 
Geiler Song,und der Teil mit der Trompete ist grandios.

Eingespielt von der Live Band?
Gibt es zwei die komponieren und eine Live Band die nicht die gleichen Personen sind?
 
Geiler Song,und der Teil mit der Trompete ist grandios.

Eingespielt von der Live Band?
Gibt es zwei die komponieren und eine Live Band die nicht die gleichen Personen sind?
In einem Interview, ich glaube im Legacy, haben die beiden Hauptakteure gesagt, dass sie nicht selbst auftreten wollen, sondern eine Band haben, die sie vertreten. Sie selbst wollen im Hintergrund bleiben.
 
Der Vollständigkeit halber mal noch der Promotext:


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DVP 194 Hexenbrett- Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi MLP/MCD/MC

DYING VICTIMS is proud to present a special new EP from TTERBNEXEH, Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi, on CD, music cassette and 12” vinyl formats.

It was but May of the cursed year of 2020 when TTERBNEXEH truly came into their own with their shockingly masterful debut album, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten, courtesy of DYING VICTIMS. While the enigmatic duo of Josto Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétte had definitely turned heads with Erste Beschwörung EP in 2019, their debut album’s idiosyncratic kaleidoscope of Varathron, Jean Rollin, Danzig, Goblin, and Van Halen emerged as completely unique and unlike little else around.

Predictably unpredictable, TTERBNEXEH return with a crazed ‘n’ crazy EP that’s the result of canceled concerts and tours: the four-song Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi. As suggested by its titled, the record is no “Beschwörung” but, rather, an intermezzo. Because, for the first time in the brief history of TTERBNEXEH, this EP does not feature performances by Josto Feratu or Scarlettina Bolétte. Instead, the tracks were recorded by what had been the live line-up for 2020, but of course under the watchful eyes and ears of the clandestine couple.

Suitably, Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi strays some from the TTERBNEXEH sound so far revealed whilst etching the band’s twisted identity even further. With all songs and lyrics written by the duo of Feratu and Bollétte – except for a reverential cover of the early Misfits track “Return of the Fly” – the band’s original material here displays new facets in TTERBNEXEH sound: heavier, weirder, more atmospheric and more aggressive. It’s basically more of everything and the most accurate presentation of The Sound Of the Bloody Iris to date, and bloody fucking good no matter how you cut! While TTERBNEXEH previous full-length record featured unexplainable additional sounds in the background of the tracks, the material on Intermezzo… had to be re-recorded many times as things got lost continuously.

It seems as if Feratu and Bolétte are still haunted from their past… But hark! Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi is no taster/teaser of the second TTERBNEXEH full-length. Those mysteries are only known to the duo.

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on white/black/yellow splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– MCD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 22nd October
 
Der Vollständigkeit halber mal noch der Promotext:


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DVP 194 Hexenbrett- Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi MLP/MCD/MC

DYING VICTIMS is proud to present a special new EP from TTERBNEXEH, Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi, on CD, music cassette and 12” vinyl formats.

It was but May of the cursed year of 2020 when TTERBNEXEH truly came into their own with their shockingly masterful debut album, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten, courtesy of DYING VICTIMS. While the enigmatic duo of Josto Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétte had definitely turned heads with Erste Beschwörung EP in 2019, their debut album’s idiosyncratic kaleidoscope of Varathron, Jean Rollin, Danzig, Goblin, and Van Halen emerged as completely unique and unlike little else around.

Predictably unpredictable, TTERBNEXEH return with a crazed ‘n’ crazy EP that’s the result of canceled concerts and tours: the four-song Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi. As suggested by its titled, the record is no “Beschwörung” but, rather, an intermezzo. Because, for the first time in the brief history of TTERBNEXEH, this EP does not feature performances by Josto Feratu or Scarlettina Bolétte. Instead, the tracks were recorded by what had been the live line-up for 2020, but of course under the watchful eyes and ears of the clandestine couple.

Suitably, Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi strays some from the TTERBNEXEH sound so far revealed whilst etching the band’s twisted identity even further. With all songs and lyrics written by the duo of Feratu and Bollétte – except for a reverential cover of the early Misfits track “Return of the Fly” – the band’s original material here displays new facets in TTERBNEXEH sound: heavier, weirder, more atmospheric and more aggressive. It’s basically more of everything and the most accurate presentation of The Sound Of the Bloody Iris to date, and bloody fucking good no matter how you cut! While TTERBNEXEH previous full-length record featured unexplainable additional sounds in the background of the tracks, the material on Intermezzo… had to be re-recorded many times as things got lost continuously.

It seems as if Feratu and Bolétte are still haunted from their past… But hark! Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi is no taster/teaser of the second TTERBNEXEH full-length. Those mysteries are only known to the duo.

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on white/black/yellow splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– MCD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 22nd October
Schon so gut wie gekauft!! :jubel:
 
Meine Reserviertheit der Band gegenüber hat sich durch einen umwerfenden Livegig und den Vorabtrack zur neuen EP in große Liebe verwandelt. Abgesehen von dem feier ich die Tracks am meisten, die so richtig in Mittneunziger Billo-Keyboards ersaufen: "Farben der Nacht" von Tape I und "Requiem des Vampires" von Tape II (bei mir als Tape-Band klassifiziert, aber wenn sie in Zukunft noch mehr Kinomusik machen wie auf der neuen EP muss ich vielleicht auf breitwandigere Formate umsatteln).
 
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Ich möchte nur anmerken, dass sich meine Reserviertheit der Band gegenüber durch einen umwerfenden Livegig und den Vorabtrack zur neuen EP in große Liebe verwandelt hat. Abgesehen von dem feier ich die Tracks am meisten, die so richtig in Mittneunziger BM Billo-Keyboards ersaufen: "Farben der Nacht" von Tape I und "Requiem des Vampires" von Tape II (bei mir als Tape-Band klassifiziert, aber wenn sie in Zukunft noch mehr Kinomusik machen wie auf der neuen EP muss ich vielleicht auf breitwandigere Formate umsatteln).
Livegig? Wo? Wann? Ich bin neidisch.
 
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