I'm listening to the Oriflamme I sample on your myspace. Absolutely heart-shattering stuff. I love how it is as equally minimal as it is complex. A simple inhuman pulse surrounding by a cacophony of all too human terror.

9/10

The vinyl re-release of WRAITHS' debut CDr has recently been announced by Aurora Borealis and is available for purchase through their .



"Haunting the dank crypts below Edinburgh's cobbled streets, Wraiths seek to reify the shambling masses abandoned by God during the plague-years of this fog-bound city. These two tortured priests take the hymns of their past lives and pervert them into vast walls of howling sound; a blood-flecked gobbet of phlegm in the eye of their one-time Lord. Playing instruments as broken and wretched as their own decaying bodies, Wraiths conjure their blasphemous noise with no assistance from the modern world's difference engines and thinking machines. Wraiths are the horror of infection.

None shall escape the harrow of the plague. Recorded live and under ritual conditions, Oriflamme was Wraiths' first creation. The insanely limited CDr release was quickly consumed by collectors of the truly profane and now this vinyl presentation has been ordained by the ghastly monks themselves in conjunction with Aurora Borealis. Blackened death-ambient drone meets howling, metallic noise.

Transcribed directly from the C60 tape used in the original recording, this vinyl version of Wraiths' Orflamme is a black monolith of utterly corrupted, pre-industrial plague-noise. Unsanitised, unsterilised and unhallowed - this is Oriflamme how it was meant to be heard with tape fluctuations, collapsing band members and malfunctioning equipment intact.

Presented on 180gm black vinyl housed in a heavyweight matte sleeve, with obscure imagery and illusory ageing, limited to 500."





Thanks to all those who have made this possible. We forgive you.

We've just got confirmation of a live date in Edinburgh which will work as a nice warm-up for the Glasgow Implodes event.

Henry's Cellar Bar, 8 Morrison Street, Edinburgh: 02/04/08, 20:00, £4

: Edinburgh's finest purveyors of blackened noise drone.

: Epic, clinical Black Metal from Falkirk. One of the best new BM acts in the country.

: A singer song writer who produces melancholy, mournful music that isn't afraid to meander into the realms of folk and drone.

One more act to be confirmed.

Should be a good, mixed night! Hope to see you there.