Wode

Wode

Uncrossing The Keys

20 Buck Spin

Manchester’s savage sons Wode return with their fourth album, Uncrossing The Keys, marking a confident expansion of their already formidable sound built upon a shadowy foundation of feral black metal and ironclad heavy metal heft. Having evolved from the more straightforward methodology of the debut album, Wode has continuously added elements from various dark corners of the underground across its discography, with songwriting that has grown leaner yet more intricate, focused and melodic than ever.Uncrossing The Keys hasn’t softened Wode’s music, the sound remains steeped in flame and fury, but they’ve embraced a wider spectrum of moods, painting with blacker, richer hues than ever before. Jagged post-punk / goth leanings bleakly shine on new tracks like “Saturn Shadow” and the dreamy trance of atmospheric instrumental “Phantom”. The doomier pace and majestically pensive mood of single “Transmutation” recalls both Paradise Lost and Amorphis with its somber undercurrent, while the morosely anthemic “Under Lanternlight” is suffused with dynamic melodies in its Sentenced-like composition style. Guitars carry a mournful shimmer at times, their hooks laced with both melancholy and menace, drifting above the carnage with moments of elegiac beauty and dark lamentation. The hellish rasp of the vocals rise like ritual chants from another age.Conjuring visions of a world perpetually on the edge of twilight Wode casts a long, cold silhouette over the course of Uncrossing The Keys nine tracks. There’s a sense of both grandeur and decay, as though the band opened a gateway to a realm where cursed cities smolder under...

Wode

(Color) Wode

20 Buck Spin

***ON KELLY GREEN LIMITED VINYL!!! In 2021 Wode released their third album Burn In Many Mirrors via 20 Buck Spin to wide acclaim throughout the international metal underground. The band had evolved their sound into a searing amalgamation of black metal, death metal and flashes of classic heavy metal anthems and solos, never sacrificing the dark spirit for which they’d become known.  Going back to 2016, Wode made their first full length statement, with their self-titled debut, now being re-released on vinyl by 20 Buck Spin. Here we find the pure black metal roots of Wode, influenced by the epic, vicious and freezing melody of the coldest Scandinavian black metal recalling ’90s-era No Fashion and Napalm Records artists.  Having released their demo in 2011, in the intervening five years Wode sharpened and chiseled the songs on this debut into a venomous, deadly blast of withering intensity. Six years later the songs have lost none of their vitriolic potency.

Wode

Wode

20 Buck Spin

In 2021 Wode released their third album Burn In Many Mirrors via 20 Buck Spin to wide acclaim throughout the international metal underground. The band had evolved their sound into a searing amalgamation of black metal, death metal and flashes of classic heavy metal anthems and solos, never sacrificing the dark spirit for which they’d become known.  Going back to 2016, Wode made their first full length statement, with their self-titled debut, now being re-released on vinyl by 20 Buck Spin. Here we find the pure black metal roots of Wode, influenced by the epic, vicious and freezing melody of the coldest Scandinavian black metal recalling ’90s-era No Fashion and Napalm Records artists.  Having released their demo in 2011, in the intervening five years Wode sharpened and chiseled the songs on this debut into a venomous, deadly blast of withering intensity. Six years later the songs have lost none of their vitriolic potency.

Wode

Burn In Many Mirrors

20 Buck Spin

Returning with their third scathing blast of profane black death metal, England’s Wode now join with 20 Buck Spin to unleash Burn In Many Mirrors, their most potently wild and predatory work yet. With six new tracks spanning forty minutes of meticulously summoned infernal ferocity, Wode scorch the landscape and drape it in the foul reek of death’s fog. One may hear the ancient voice of obscure and revered gods reflected through the band’s sulphuric incantations, the raging fire of the most blasphemous legends of the past called upon by the spirit of chaos and death. Shrouded in sepulchral black metal atmosphere and freezing cold melodies Burn In Many Mirrors displays a studied regard for songcraft and motive well beyond mere convention, transforming into a concentrated dark chorus of ruin and abomination. Now into the second decade of existence in the material plane, Wode’s definitive melding of black metal’s ecstatic desecration, death metal’s sharply attuned sense of violent purpose and classic anthemic ’80s metal instills this album with the elements necessary to sear itself into the fervent heart of the faithful.

Wode

(Color) Burn In Many Mirrors

20 Buck Spin

***ON LIMITED OXBLOOD / AQUA BLUE MERGE VINYL!!! Returning with their third scathing blast of profane black death metal, England’s Wode now join with 20 Buck Spin to unleash Burn In Many Mirrors, their most potently wild and predatory work yet. With six new tracks spanning forty minutes of meticulously summoned infernal ferocity, Wode scorch the landscape and drape it in the foul reek of death’s fog. One may hear the ancient voice of obscure and revered gods reflected through the band’s sulphuric incantations, the raging fire of the most blasphemous legends of the past called upon by the spirit of chaos and death. Shrouded in sepulchral black metal atmosphere and freezing cold melodies Burn In Many Mirrors displays a studied regard for songcraft and motive well beyond mere convention, transforming into a concentrated dark chorus of ruin and abomination. Now into the second decade of existence in the material plane, Wode’s definitive melding of black metal’s ecstatic desecration, death metal’s sharply attuned sense of violent purpose and classic anthemic ’80s metal instills this album with the elements necessary to sear itself into the fervent heart of the faithful.