HULDER Back Catalogue Coming to Season of Mist This Autumn

Season of Mist is pleased to announce the forthcoming reissue of four releases from the HULDER back catalogue: De Oproeping Van Middeleeuwse Duisternis (2019), Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry (2021), The Eternal Fanfare (2022), and Verses in Oath (2024). The four titles span the full arc of the project’s development, from its earliest tape recordings through to the most fully realized statement to date.

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De Oproeping Van Middeleeuwse Duisternis brings together HULDER‘s first two tape releases: the Ascending the Raven Stone demo and the Rehearsal 8/13/18 session, onto a single compilation. Raw and deliberate, these eight tracks document the project’s origins in the icy traditional black metal of the nineties Scandinavian and French scenes, anchored by tremolo-picked riffs, a cover of Celtic Frost’s “Into the Crypts of Rays,” and a songwriting instinct that was already, at this earliest stage, pointed and purposeful.

Track list:

De Oproeping Van Middeleeuwse Duisternis (00:46)
Heksensabbat (Rehearsal) (02:36)
Bestial Form of Humanity (Rehearsal) (04:06)
Implements of Hell (Rehearsal) (05:36)
Into the Crypts of Rays (03:48)
Heksensabbat (05:27)
Bestial Form of Humanity (04:50)
Implements of Hell (07:45)
Full runtime: 34:56

Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry, HULDER‘s debut full-length, was released in January 2021 via Iron Bonehead Productions. Across eight tracks and roughly forty minutes, the album expanded on the early tape material with greater structural ambition and textural range: blast-driven passages sitting alongside acoustic guitar, medieval keyboard, and unhurried melodic development. The Belgian geography of the project surfaces directly in “De Dijle,” named for the river running through Hulder’s native Mechelen, giving the lyrical content an anchor in specific landscape and folklore. Clean vocal passages, most notably on “A Forlorn Peasant’s Hymn,” showed a broader expressive range without altering the album’s essential character.

Track list:

Upon Frigid Winds (03:24)
Creature of Demonic Majesty (03:38)
Sown in Barren Soil (04:49)
De Dijle (06:37)
Purgations of Bodily Corruptions (04:23)
Lowland Famine (05:28)
A Forlorn Peasant’s Hymn (06:03)
From Whence an Ancient Evil Once Reigned (05:09)
Total runtime: 39:41

The Eternal Fanfare, released in July 2022 via 20 Buck Spin as HULDER‘s first release for the label, is a five-track mini-album that refined and extended the debut’s approach. The production carries more low-end weight and definition; the songwriting is more varied in register, moving between the atmospheric patience of opener “Curse From Beyond,” the stormblast ferocity of the title track, and the mournful, synth-layered arc of closer “A Perilous Journey.” A guest guitar solo from Philippe Tougas appears on “Burden of Flesh and Bone,” one of several moments on the record where expanded instrumental scope serves the composition rather than decorating it.

Track list:

Curse From Beyond (02:54)
Burden of Flesh and Bone (05:27)
Sylvan Awakening (04:49)
The Eternal Fanfare (05:34)
A Perilous Journey (06:58)
Total runtime: 25:54

Verses in Oath, the sophomore full-length released in February 2024 via 20 Buck Spin, is the most complete realisation of the project to date. Recorded during the winter of 2023 at De Pestkerk Studios, the album spans ten tracks and forty minutes, moving between furious tremolo-driven passages and passages of near-ceremonial stillness with a cohesion and confidence that sets it apart from everything that preceded it. “Hearken the End” is the album’s centrepiece, a waltz-paced track that opens with ethereal clean vocals before escalating without seam; the title track returns to a more layered black metal mode, and the two short interludes: “Lamentation” and “An Offering”, function as genuine structural caesuras rather than padding. Mixed and mastered in Finland at Tico Tico Studio and Finnvox Studios respectively, the record’s production allows the dynamics of the writing to carry their full weight.

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