VASSAFOR are not ones for half-measures. For them, their spirituality is Satanic and absolute: no compromise, no quarter. Thus, with the aptly titled To the Death do VASSAFOR render their most direct statement yet, yet one also imbued with a lurking strangeness that's entirely their own. At once submerging into the murkiest depths of the underground from whence they sprang, in other senses smothering those senses with a serpentine flow that's stultifying to behold, the seven sonic incantations comprising the 66-minute To the Death prove that the duo indeed are ever able to conjure horrifying new shapes stitched from the fabric of the ancients. Not for nothing is this third full-length titled as such: To the Death bespeaks VASSAFOR's own path - theirs, and theirs literally ALONE - that is verily "Archaic Black Metal that exists outside time." Any band would kill to write songs as mesmerizing 'n' monolithic as the opening 12-minute title track, or the ten-minute self-explanatory "Eyrie," or especially the 17-minute, likewise self-explanatory closer "Singularity"...and that's barely half the album.
VASSAFOR exist on their own terms, and we can only help but bear witness to their black magick. To the Death is a statement of intent, a world unto itself, and so much more: bow, enter, die.
VASSAFOR exist on their own terms, and we can only help but bear witness to their black magick. To the Death is a statement of intent, a world unto itself, and so much more: bow, enter, die.