Vargrav - The Nighthold (Digipak CD) Zyklon-B And the battle has been

And the battle has been won

This version of the recording is taken from a tape Black Winds sent to Metalion (Slayer Magazine) in May of 1989-one of the only known extant copies-and is newly mastered by James Plotkin to enhance the audio where possible

making those occasional crescendos and lush instrumentals so much more impactful

Two rehearsal tracks from 1999

Vargrav - The Nighthold (Digipak CD) Zyklon-B And the battle has beenFrom the dawn of the classic debut album, Netherstorm, in 2018, Finland's VARGRAV have almost single handedly reinvigorated the oft maligned symphonic black metal subgenre. Forged in fires from the ancients founder V Khaoz's credentials are vast and stretch back decades and stoking the embers last left by OBTAINED ENSLAVEMENT and Norway's COVENANT and ODIUM, VARGRAV's two albums to date stand as proud pillars of shimmering, classics based obsidian. As