Pale Spektre - "Bereft of Xerotic Layers" cassette

Obtained from Nuclear War Now! (USA)

Smoke coloured tape with black print housed in a full coloured folder
Released in conspiracy with Amor Fati Prod. and Nuclear War Now!
Limited to 300 copies

Phenomenal dissonant, blackened death/doom from Germany. Bleak and obscure. Dismal and disgusting. This is the band's debut full length album. There are hints of Incantation and Beherit in their sound. But this is darker. More sinister.

"Pale Spektre is a brand-new creation among three entities. While those three individuals hail from other bands, Pale Spektre is indeed its own beast - a hungry, hideous one arising from the most feral depths of the black metal imagination. Their first public recording, Bereft of Xerotic Layers bursts forth with a bestial energy, but one far more animalistic (and even improvisatory) than conventional "bestial metal." Indeed, the trio's hulking attack seemingly strikes, swirls, and recoils of its own accord, creating a slipstreaming delirium that's transcendental and tension-inducing in equal measure. The specter of primitive, barbaric DOOM is never far away - or rather, always in striking distance - as Pale Spektre pile high these jagged, coruscating layers...only to obliterate and rearrange them at will. The album's seven-song/46-minute duration thus becomes a sanity-searing experience, and Pale Spektre emerge as altered beasts."