LUNAR CHALICE: Set Release Date For Debut Album – Reveal First Track

Iron Bonehead Productions sets 1st June as the international release date for Lunar Chalice’s highly anticipated debut album, Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2019, Lunar Chalice comprises prolific veterans of the German metal underground. Under the alluring moniker Lunar Chalice, the band quickly set upon a slew of releases, first with the Walpurgis Dance demo in 2019 and the Night Poetry EP right after, exhibiting a subtly refreshing approach to classics-minded black metal. The next year came to the even-stronger Medieval Cults of Heresy EP, thus setting the stage for the band’s debut full-length.

Taking a relatively long time given their feverish creativity, Lunar Chalice now delivers the grand statement of their so-far-undiscovered powers, Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage. With one steel-toed boot planted under a funeral moon and the other in a world without end, Lunar Chalice gives a masterclass in stripped-down songwriting rich in nuance and dynamics. Their black metal is like a boulder gathering momentum down a mountain and rumbling across valleys; the movement is inexorable and portends doom, and simply cannot be stopped. Lunar Chalice, in effect, extends a spectrum of black metal sonics that’s feral and unhinged on one hand and mercilessly martial on the other; that their almost-overwhelmingly physical onslaught is deliberately (and eerily) clipped betrays both a depth of vision and a rare grace in a landscape usually laden with filth. Which isn’t to say that Transcendentia doesn’t sound “dirty” (it does), but rather that that’s not the overarching thematic – that there’s a sense of ceremony or even regality at play here. Credit due to the absolute madman vocals of bassist E.I.-M., who more often than not channels a clean tenor that’s more disturbing than most “black metal” vocals.

Past, present, and future: Lunar Chalice‘s vision encompasses all on Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage.

Open thine eyes to the brand-new new track “Calix Cum Velum” HERE at Iron Bonehead’s Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

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