TELOCH VOVIN Drop New Track, Announce ‘Towards The Inevitable’ Album
New York’s TELOCH VOVIN, an occult black/death metal outfit, just announced their upcoming album, Towards The Inevitable, set to drop on May 8th. They also premiered a new video for the track “The Rite Ov The Harvest Pt 1: The Rite Ov The Reaper’s Blade” via Metal Injection. The track features a guest solo from Necrophobic’s Sebastian Ramstedt.
Photo by Mousie Dixon
Towards The Inevitable is a split release between the band’s newly formed An Eastern Temple Productions and Thus Spake Qayin Records. This marks the thirteenth title for Thus Spake Qayin.
Formed by guitarist/vocalist Grigori, TELOCH VOVIN operates as a conceptual project focused on the worship and ritual workings with the forces of khaos, entropy, and death. Their name itself is Enochian; “teloch” translates to “death” and “vovin” to “dragon,” a reference to Samael, the dragon of death.
The band has built a rabid regional fanbase, sharing stages with groups like Black Witchery, Negative Plane, Grave Gnosis, Kult Ov Azazel, Mortician, and Shining. They even kept busy during the pandemic, performing live streams and releasing multiple self-produced tracks.
With Towards The Inevitable, TELOCH VOVIN combines black metal with elements of traditional, death, and doom metal, along with classical and ambient/electronic sounds. These influences are tied into the occult practice behind TELOCH VOVIN, creating a musical sound that is raw and violent, yet also captivating and hypnotic.
The songs for this record were initially laid down several years ago for a different split release that never happened. But they’ve been revamped and updated with crushing production, capturing the band’s aggression and entrancing sound.
Drums were recorded/engineered by Ash at The Percussion Bunker. Saturnus handled bass at The Grotto, and C.O.S. recorded his guitars at Wind’s Lord Studios. Grigori took care of his guitars and all vocal recordings, as well as the album’s mixing/mastering duties, alongside Mike Usifer (Prime Evil) at Usifer Sound Studios and Aural Assault Studio. Usifer has since officially joined the band.
The album also features a guest guitar solo by Sebastian Ramstedt (Necrophobic, Elfödd, In Aphelion), Hebrew language passages spoken by Avi Levi, and classical elements of violin, viola, and cello performed and recorded by Ben Karas for the four-part closing suite “Panzer Fist.” Stephen Morris and Grigori contributed additional classical compositions.
Artwork credits go to Eam XI for the front cover, Zeroth Q-ayn for the inside artwork. Photography by David Simmons and Casey Heney, and layout by The Temple Of The Headless One.
Track Listing:
- I. His Creation Reversed (Intro)
- II. The Rite Ov The Harvest Pt 1: The Rite Ov The Reaper’s Blade
- III. Samael – Lord Ov The Second Death (Hymn 131)
- IV. Gamaliel Pt 1: Spectral Gem Ov Southern Skies (Instrumental)
- V. A Dirge To The Death Ov Life, Love And Hope Pt 2: Nothing, No-One, Nowhere
- VI. Forward… Towards The Inevitable (instrumental)
- VII. Panzer Fist
- 1. Infernal Blitzkrieg
- 2. Forward Advance/Delivering The Curse
- 3. Lightning Assault/The Creed Ov Khaotic Divinity
- 4. Apocalyptic Revelation/Towards The Inevitable
TELOCH VOVIN Is:
- Grigori – guitars, backing vocals
- Saturnus – bass, backing vocals
- Ash – drums
- Baba Ogun – vocals
- Etu Narum – vocals
- C.O.S. – guitars
- Azag – bells, samples, backing vocals
- Proph – electronics
Towards The Inevitable will be released on CD and digitally on May 8th. This will be the first release on the band’s new An Eastern Temple Productions. Thus Spake Qayin Records will handle the CD release and new merch items. Digital preorders, physical preorders, and digital presaves are available now. More audio and video from the album are expected in the coming weeks.
Photo by Marissa Campos
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