VANUM

Ageless Fire

PROFOUND LORE US black metallers power through classic terrain Vanum’s backwardslooking-forwards take on classic black metal is borne of the minds of Ash Borer’s K. Morgan and Yellow Eyes’ M. Rekevics. Album two sees them bolster their firepower with the addition of former live-only members E. Priesner and L.sheppard. The result is balefully triumphant, if a little too tried and trve. Grandiose opener War builds anticipation before the percussively feral Jaws

Of Rapture, their reedy leads a constant through powering tempo shifts and throaty howls. Under The

Banner Of Death ups the freneticism across nine epic minutes of undulating emotive swathes, each track a variation on the record’s theme of sweeping, imperious BM. Ageless Fire is the sound of two musicians freeing themselves of the need to innovate, instead putting their own stamp on tried and tested traditions of the black flame.