We’re extremely proud to announce an imminent release of “Realms.....” - the second full-length hexation from Finnish terrorizing black metal coven Hexerei - forty minutes of the band's staple assault on the psyche vomited from beyond the shreds of sanity. Five new abysmal, wretched curses of venom-soaked aural pestilence conceived as a gateway to absolute bedlam.
Iconic underground blog Invisible Oranges has stepped in to set the release in motion with an exclusive advance track reveal for the album’s opening song “Omenstorm Massacre”, elaborating that the album is is “immersive, atmospheric assault of bizarre, martial music” and of “hideous, ornate black metal” - you can read the feature and check out the song HERE.
On their new vomit of creation the deranged Finnish cult explores even more outer dimensions of terror and insanity, scouring the depths of delirium to uncover a cryptic primordial essence of complete world inversion. This second full-length disfigurement cements Hexerei’s profile as absolutists of the unutterable, and sees the Finnish scourge distance themselves even further from any concept of musicality, forcing upon the listener a berserk strain of virulent antimusic rarely observed at a such a crippled and primeval state. An intentionally destroyed audio quality and a completely regressive approach to the canonical decencies of songwriting and recording exalt a sonic delirium of complete inhumanity that redefines the concept of raw black metal entirely, reconsigning it to its ancestral and legitimate origin as vector for boundless violence and absolute evil. The ancestral path paved by Cultes Des Ghoules, Katharsis, Armagedda, Vorum and Concrete Winds thus finds new instigators to the propagation of occult and grotesque audio as terror, and “Realms.....” stands grandiose and inscrutable in its defiant goal of returning this particular strain of necrotic extreme music back to a certain dimension of absolute malignancy where it was birthed and belongs.
“Realms.....” is scheduled for a May 23 2025 release on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which can now be pre-ordered via all our channels.
Raw black meal disease Hexerei was formed in the forlorn rural areas of nightside Finland in 2017 by three unnamed and deranged maniacs who set out to create ancient aural gateways to depths of madness and Hell. After two demonstrational self-released stabs of live captured black metal sorcery (the “Aural Abyss” 2018 demo and the ”Oath” demo from 2019) and countless hours of contemplating the forces of the Infernal planes and torments of flesh, a full-grown abomination came forth; a necromantical mockery of life from the witches' black cauldron called ”Ancient Evil Spirits”, embodying four venom dripping evil spells ridden with disease, intoxicated morbid visions through the eyes of possessed prophets of the most hideous of realms. A world of everlasting majestic terror, revelations howled in the shadow of the horns and the force of evil light, forever rejoicing the glorious opening of HELL! ”Ancient Evil Spirits” saw its wretched nativity in early 2022 through Sentient Ruin, acclaimed for its epic songs and complex composition, as well as for its uncompromising atavistically raw sound and its refusal to abide to any familiar production standard. As a non-touring or live act, the trio then went dormant, only apparently, to quietly delve into the creation of its successor. Such successor was then completed in 2024 and again ritualized for public unleashing in 2025 by Sentient Ruin. Titled “Realms…..”, this abominable successor found the band once again regressing further into the confinement of their own insane sound populated by demons, spirits and all kinds of horrendous hell-crawling entities, and swaying further way from any concept of familiarity with music, consigning to the masses a mangled, gnarled, and cryptic disfigurement of blown out and pestilent black metal, once again winding itself across an immense canvas of long, abysmal invocations.