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Blood Stained Dusk - Dead Lights Beckon Me E.P. - Reviewed By No Clean Singing ! Check it out here at this link: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2023/06/04/shades-of-black-blut-aus-nord-svartkonst-deviser-blood-stained-dusk-verletzen-lanzerrath/

Once again YouTube’s musical algorithm proved its intelligence by serving up a song off Blood Stained Dusk‘s new EP right after that Deviser music video just above. Not only was that song (“No Light Shall Penetrate“) a perfect companion for “Where Angels Fear To Tread“, but it was also a good reminder that I hadn’t yet heard the EP, which follows this Alabama-based band’s last full-length by a hefty 15 years and includes performances by a couple of new members.

Released by Black Lion Records in late May, Dead Lights Beckon Me collects two singles released by the band in 2020 and 2023, respectively, plus a third new song (the title track) rendered in two versions, one of them an orchestral instrumental.

Like Deviser, Blood Stained Dusk create haunting and harrowing musical pageants on the new release, relying on vast symphonic sweep, earth-shattering bombast, multitudes of swirling and sizzling fretwork, bursts of munitions-grade drum mania, and come-for-your-throat vocals as their main ingredients.

The band operate on a grand scale almost all the time, but what they’re portraying is haughty savagery, monumental calamity, shattering fear, and mass despair. Madness also reigns in “No Light Shall Penetrate“, that song I heard right after the afore-mentioned Deviser video, leavened with bits of melancholy pinging piano melody, a couple of sorcerous guitar solos, and soaring choral voices in its spectacular mid-section.

I think it’s not easy to make such grandiose music without falling so far into excess that it causes eyes to roll, but Blood Stained Dusk navigate those pitfalls very well, varying the experiences from song to song in ways that hold attention while simultaneously taking your breath away, further examples being the old revival-style singing at the outset of “Worship and Disintegrate” and the mesmerizing keyboard melodies and bursts of buzzing and swirling riffage in that same song, not to mention the constantly variable drumming and the genuinely extravagant harsh vocal performances throughout. No Clean Singing

Release Date May 24, 2023

FFO: Emperor, Watain, Behemoth

Location: Alabama, United States

Formed in 1997 during the rise of the myriad bands that were part of the black metal subculture, Blood Stained Dusk emerged to take the United States Black Metal scene by storm. The BLOOD STAINED DUSK sound, which is like no other in U.S. Black Metal (USBM), captures unique, majestic, and somber tones accompanied by ritualistic brimstone and fire lyrics. The raw and menacing atmosphere of the band’s sound creates an epic and warlike ambiance. The music’s influence was originally forged by the traditional Norwegian and European Black Metal sound while powerfully emerging as a unique entity within the USBM culture.

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Recording Lineup:
Profana: Drums
Deimor: Guitars
Perkunas: Bass/Backing Vocals
Thorgrin: Guitar/Vocals/Keys
Guest guitar solo by: Sergio “Surg” Quesada formerly of Khaotika

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https://www.facebook.com/officialbloodstaineddusk/
https://www.instagram.com/blood_stained_dusk/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe7xAS5dEPCyxZawXINqQNg
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1J40IXknpLCZYG2KTY6MQ9
https://pandora.app.link/AsLtPd22byb
https://bloodstaineddusk.bandcamp.com/
https://bloodstainedduskblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/dead-lights-beckon-me