Name: Toteslaut (Coloured Vinyl LP)
SKU: FI147LP
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Artist

Nastrond

Album

Toteslaut (Coloured Vinyl LP)

Label

Funeral Industries

Article number

FI147LP

Release date

2026-01-23

Genre

Death/Thrash/Black

Description

Nastrond remains one of the best bands out of Sweden, yet they are one of the more underground and often overlooked bands from that country. This is unfortunate for their music is dark, occultic and highly atmospheric. Toteslaut is their first full length release, and it remains perhaps their best (or at least my favorite). What makes this release so effective is the atmosphere, and the ways in which their subject matter and interests manage to exhude through the musical creations. The mood of this release is where it wins with me, Nastrond are real and true occultists (around the time of this release they were involved with Michael Ford''s Order of the Black Dragon a vampyric magical group) and it shows in the music. The focus is on death worship on this release (where their demos were more focused on vampirism) and a look at the song titles shows in what ways they work with this focus. Often there is reference to Necrotism of every stripe, nights with the dead, ghoulish actions in a cemetery, an ambient piece with an incantation to Kali, explorations indeed of the types of things practiced in Left Hand Aghora practice. Often one can also hear the words spoken and this helps to build an understanding of this release beyond just the atmosphere that the music reeks of. Coloured Vinyl LP.

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