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Ii: Shapeshifting

Black Totem

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Format: LP

Cat No: SVART259LP

Release Date:  30 April 2021

Label:  Svart Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  6430077092006

Genres:  Hard Rock & Metal  Heavy Metal  

  • Description

    Blackened Blues with Doom and Punk influences, Black Totem's Deathrock is overflowing with superstition, vice and horror. Up to no good since 2008, Black Totem are notorious road-dogs of the Finnish underground, cutting their teeth and scraping their raw knuckles in a slew of live shows through the years. The band has shown promise since the early days releasing two EP's and a self-titled debut album, which won an award for Best Rock Album at the Turku Music Awards in 2016.With their new album "Shapeshifting," Black Totem are downright lycanthropic, breaking out of their enigmatic origins and taking on a much more unadulterated form. Their catchy, raucous Blues songs, with wild, untamed backing vocals and horror-soundtrack keys, give a distinctly Finnish lizard-disco hysteria to their fortified sound, coming across like a blood-bath in a moonshine distillery. Howling at the moon, with lungs of bile, Danzig/Misfits/Samhain influences are fleshed out with the Doom-laden riff-war of Celtic Frost, Venom and Darkthrone. Together with the catchier urban song-craft of the Black Keys, this cauldron of Black Totem's magic formula makes "Shapeshifting" a familiar, yet heavily enjoyable natural genre-clash of their own.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Begone Vampire
      • 2. The Devil
      • 3. 1990's
      • 4. Black Nekro Gloves
      • 5. Bloodstained Owl
      • 6. Ghoul of Crow Swamp
      • 7. Dead Meat
      • 8. Backyard Corpse Blues
      • 9. Welcome Lucifer
      • 10. Warlock