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Vancouver's KAFIRUN impressed me with their debut album Eschaton in 2017, and thus the appearance of this next song was most welcome. For now, “The Seed, The Serpent, The Scythe” is a single, but I gather that a new album is also headed our way.

You do get twisted glimpses of the band playing in the accompanying video, but those glimpses come in the midst of nightmarish imagery. The song itself is also nightmarish, and hallucinatory. It's violent and vortextual, and the mercurial guitar arpeggios sound like a life-threatening overdose in progress — but it's a wondrous seizure in which remarkable visions spring to life.

The barbaric madness of the vocals are in keeping with the dissonant, darting madness of the guitars and the paroxysms of the rhythm section. All the performers are going full-tilt all the time, and yet the song still has a spellbinding quality, maybe because it's impossible to think of anything else when you're in its midst. A pure wild-hunt adrenaline rush that messes with your mind at the same time.

The third installation of this cult series sees the title expand to a perfect-bound book format. It is perhaps best described as a Bardo Methodology-style fanzine that grew into a full length-book, written from the perspective of an Australian writer, with content predominantly split between black metal bands, death metal bands and visual artists.

Alongside KAFIRUN, the magazine features in-depth interviews with BLAZE OF PERDITION, THE FUROR / IMPIETY, ZAZEN SOUNDS / ACHERONTAS, THE SENSELESS, SUFFERING HOUR, TEMPLE KOLUDRA, DISENTOMB, DEHN SORA, AMDBL, KARMAZID, WEREWOLVES, GRAVEIR, SUNS OF SORATH, UMBRA CONSCIENTIA, MALAKHIM, BY NORSE MUSIC, MUNT, DEVOURING STAR, CHALICE OF BLOOD, MANNVEIRA, HAXANDRAOK, and many more.

Inner Missive 3 is available in paperback book format for purchase from Season of Mist & Cult Never Dies online shops.

Read an in-depth interview where KAFIRUN discusses their music, vision, and influences.

Read the interview with KAFIRUN on Bandcamp