Wraiths

"He unleashed against them his hot anger,
his wrath, indignation and hostility—
a band of destroying angels.

He prepared a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave them over to the plague. - Psalm 78:49/50"

Wraiths are the wretched sound of the plague-ridden, the unclean and the befouled. Wraiths are the dead in their lime-pits and the dying in their beds. Wraiths are the horror of infection.

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

"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."

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

Wraiths' Plaguebearer CD is still available from Paradigms Recordings.

Plaguebearer Cover

"Plaguebearer" CD (PARADIGMS013)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

"Harrowing death-ambient and blast-furnace power drone. The searing soundtrack to desolate, nihilistic electronics through undulating sheets of ice cold atmosphere and claustrophobic dread. Haunting ritual evokation of all consuming, shape-shifting blackness. Electronic ritual in spectral tongue."

Five tracks over fifty five minutes. Track listing : Nihil Rex, Plaguebearer, Bone Flutes & Skull Drums, To Corrupt The Waters Of Lethe, Ghoulsong.

Plaguebearer will be a limited edition of 500 copies, presented as an audio cd in dvd box with full colour artwork and is available NOW from the Paradigms Recordings webstore.

Wraiths' debut CD, Oriflamme, is now SOLD OUT.

Oriflamme CD

"Oriflamme" was a single, 40+ minute track recorded live under ritual conditions and recorded onto pro-duplicated CDr. The CD was housed in a hand-made, "monk's habit" cover, bound with twine, and came with a free badge featuring the Wraiths "W" logo. This CD release was a strictly limited edition of 50 pieces (including review copies).