NECROMANTIA – Scarlet Evil Witching Black LP (beer black marble)

Later 2022 reprint, 500x beer with black marble effect 12" (140g) in a black poly-lined innerbag, 8 page booklet vinyl size full-color on 190g offset paper, jacket full color on 350g, all assembled in a PVC overbag.

Necromantia didn’t so much buck the trend of Hellenic black metal as they did extreme metal as a whole. They created ghoulish occult metal superficially notable owing to the use of a six string bass repurposed as a rhythm guitar, and sporadic use of a saxophone. Such service level adornments are only a small part of the story however. After a promising split EP with Varathron in 1992 (Black Arts / The Everlasting Sins), their debut ‘Crossing the Fiery Path’ (1993) showed some promise, but suffered from a disconnected structure that lacked momentum. Follow up, 1995’s ‘Scarlet Evil, Witching Black’ saw them overcome these shortcomings and deliver a masterpiece of weird as fuck extreme metal we all knew they were capable of.