Wraiths - Oriflamme

 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.

Over their short period of activity, Wraiths have released two well-received CDs (with glowing reviews from Terrorizer, The Wire, Rock-a-Rolla and Aquarius Records) and have played live with acts as diverse as The Law-rah Collective, High On Fire and Chicks On Speed; producing ferociously loud sonic blasphemy wherever they can set up their arcane devices.

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