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WILD HUNT

AFTERDREAM OF THE REVELLER
Label VENDETTA RECORDS
Catalog VEN152CD
Format CD
Discs 1
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2018-04-27
Description
California post-black metal quartet Wild Hunt have landed a big sound on “Afterdream of the Reveller” the title track to their just-announced second album. All of this began when Wild Hunt’s guitar player Drew Cook unexpectedly passed away in 2015 on the morning that the band was about to embark on a tour with Cormorant. In June 2015 as a way of coping and moving forward in the wake of Cook’s death Wild Hunt began work on their next record. Nest of Flames Palingenesia and Choir of a Greater Sea were originally written and performed with Cook and were now properly recorded for the first time and one of Cook’s remaining riffs made up the final section of Odious Gamble. Bassist West Lenz amicably left the band in June 2016 after having contributed riffs for Odious Gamble and having recorded parts for Nest of Flames and Choir of a Greater Sea. This left drummer Harland Burkhart and guitarist Greg Brace to write and record the majority of the album by themselves. They composed and tracked the songs piece by piece in their rehearsal space and over email all while making no announcements about the state of the band--as far as most in the SF Bay Area scene knew Wild Hunt had broken up when Cook passed away. Cook’s death heavily informed the lyrical content of the record though Afterdream of the Reveller isn’t exactly a concept album. The album contains themes of depression descent into madness and mental purgatory death and its impact on those close to the deceased. Those themes help form a loose narrative throughout the record though the album ends on a hopeful and triumphant note (both musically and lyrically) with Palingenesia a song that alludes to the ideas of resurrection and reincarnation. In July 2016 Jamison Kester was recruited to fill the second guitar slot. He had shared the stage several times with Wild Hunt with his prior band Infinite Waste and was one of the few guitar players in the bay area with the technical ability to play Wild Hunt’s music. As the band stepped into the mixing of Afterdream o
tracklisting
1. At Once the Vision and the Seer
2. Odious Gamble
3. The Last Saeculum
4. Choir of a Greater Sea
5. Desiderium
6. Afterdream of the Reveller
7. Nest of Flames
8. Palingenesia
 

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