SETH - Era Decay (20th Anniversary Reissue) - LP - Vinyl

LP - Black Vinyl. Reissue of the 2004 album of high-calibre extremity from the French Metal Masters, marking twenty years since release.

Seth formed back in 1995 & is known as being among the primary acts in the French black metal scene, with their 1998 debut, 'Les Blessures de l'Ame' regarded as a landmark album & a cornerstone of French Black metal since its release on the then freshly-established label, Season of Mist, with Seth becoming firmly established as an internationally recognised act as a result.

Seth went on to release a further five studio offerings over the next twenty-five years, branching out into other spectrums of extreme metal along the way before returning to the more grimly-atmospheric sounds of yore, with the band also set to return in 2024 with their new studio album.

'Era Decay' was Seth's fourth studio opus, originally surfacing in 2004 & continued to establish a more brutal integration of riffing & compositional styles & ideas which was indicative of the times, whilst also still retaining some blackened metal elements among more progressively technical ingredients. With a cleaner, more cutting production, this resulted in one of the band's heaviest outputs, with some intricate riffs & melodies interweaving to create a powerfully dark & at times experimental opus.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Marchemergence ( Intro ) ( 01:33 )
2. March Of The Consistory ( 04:51 )
3. Umbilical Cutting ( 05:09 )
4. Co-Existent Species ( 04:42 )
5. Ascension ( 04:16 )

Side B
1. H-Eradicate ( 03:35 )
2. Xtasian Ostix ( 05:44 )
3. A Pallbearer's Gloom ( 04:57 )
4. The Blade Upon Mankind ( 07:36 )