IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MALAKHIM's highly anticipated second album, And In Our Hearts the Devil Sings, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
There, MALAKHIM fully flexed every muscle and explored every crooked corner that had been there since the beginning - death metalled thrust colliding headlong with a majestic-yet-malevolent melodicism that harkened back to the ancient days of No Fashion and Solistitium - exhibiting a vital and yet venerable new iteration of orthodox black metal.
Four characteristically patient years later arrives MALAKHIM's second album, And In Our Hearts the Devil Sings. Truly titled, And In Our Hearts the Devil Sings is a concertedly more melodic and majestic MALAKHIM, portending dread and doom and a dead-fucking-seriousness so often lacking from second-wave reinvigoration.
Without sacrificing an iota of nuance nor rivulet of blood, the Swedes' songwriting on their second album is streamlined to a superlative degree, honed like a warhead at a holy target.
And while the pace remains blasting-quick more often than not, huge and somewhat-hymnal spaces open up, revealing a hitherto-unexplored epic side of MALAKHIM suited for the stage - or, perhaps more accurately, a massive black mass.
And just like Theion ever so slightly cleaned up the quintet's inherently dirty attack, so does And In Our Hearts the Devil Sings continue this favorable trajectory, intensifying the very METAL magick at the core of their sound; credit to longtime friend & co-conspirator M Norman, who's handled engineering on all of MALAKHIM's recordings to date.
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