HEXVESSEL Vinilo y CD

Review: Finnish occult folk band Hexvessel once again do well to evoke the richly atmospheric, sublime hinterscapes that are often heard emanating from the Fennoscandian Peninsula. As ever with this lot, doomy, hard-stereo-panned omen-dirges for guitar abound, as encroaching tides of apocalyptic black metallic rock march ever-onward, laying waste to an admittedly already-wasted landscape, one which is nonetheless sparsely populated. The abyssally cavernous vocal treatment of Mat Kvohst McNerney is enough to send chills down the spine, evoking wellsprung feelings of tragedy and catharsis.