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“…they drench the listener in sinister harmonic riffing that menacingly swarms and ecstatically slithers, and they back it with magma-strength bass convulsions and neck-snapping beats.” – No Clean Singing
No Clean Singing presents an exclusive stream of Light The Devil’s Fire, the volatile debut LP from Alberta-based black/death metal cult REVELATOR, now playing ahead of its release this Friday on Nameless Grave Records.
REVELATOR’s Light The Devil’s Fire arrives, pummeling the listener with ten rampaging songs. The band offers an arcane and ancient black/death assault hearkening back to the riff lords of yesteryear: Desaster, Mortuary Drape, Nifelheim, and the earliest years of black metal. Light The Devil’s Fire was recorded by Rob Lawless at Lawless Recordings, mixed by Derek Orthner at Derek Orthner Audio, mastered by Drew Copland and Vector Sound, and completed with cover art by Christine Angela, and layout by Alasdair Rintoul.
The band decries, “Light The Devil’s Fire stands as a testament to the unyielding will made manifest through flame and storm. Conceived amid personal crucibles and spiritual warfare, the album channels lunar necromancy and iron devotion into a sound both regal and ruinous. Musically, it forges the mysticism of second-wave black metal with the militant grandeur of epic heavy metal—where serpentine tremolo riffs clash with martial rhythms, commanding vocals, and occult melodies that exalt darkness as sovereignty. Each track radiates triumphant evil, invoking visions of torchlit processions and thrones carved from ash. This is not merely an album—it is a ritual of ascent.”
With their early stream of the album, No Clean Singing offers a grisly dissection of the album, their extensive notes revealing how, “they drench the listener in sinister harmonic riffing that menacingly swarms and ecstatically slithers, and they back it with magma-strength bass convulsions and neck-snapping beats. With drums hammering, they turn up the swirling heat of the fast and intricate fretwork and bring in ravenous howls and rabid screams. At full burn, the music sounds like an infernal orgy, a whirling and darting fretwork extravaganza pierced by shrieks and delirious squirming from the lead guitar, paired with rumbling and tumbling drums and lividly bubbling bass notes… an electrifying manifestation of devilish jubilation.”
Enter the No Clean Singing realm to receive REVELATOR’s Light The Devil’s Fire early RIGHT HERE.
Nameless Grave Records will issue Light The Devil’s Fire on CD and digitally this Friday, September 12th. Preorders can be placed at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Spawned from the cold, grim heart of Edmonton, Canada, REVELATOR is a nihilistic assault that is raw, relentless, and unwavering in its devotion to the darkest corners of archaic extreme metal. Born in 2017, the band quickly established itself as a local beacon of furious, unrepentant energy, aligning themselves with the primal ethos of unholy power that goes back to the roots of their genre, wielded mercilessly through every riff, every beat, and every beckoning.
In 2018 and 2019 REVELATOR unleashed two self-released cassette demos, gaining a cult following among those true at heart that encountered their music, and the band expanded from a two-piece recording project to a savage live band, igniting a fire of chaos across the stage that mirrored their destructive studio presence. With a lineup forged from experience, the members have a pedigree that speaks volumes, their collective history including bands like Ouroboros, Gloria Diaboi, Weapon, Begrime Exemious, Reliquary, and beyond, with those years of experience coming together.
Prepare for the onslaught. REVELATOR is here. REVELATOR is watching you.
“…just straight-up pummeling fury.” – Decibel Magazine
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