AZRAEL news: vinyl, reissues, new album

Minnesota avant-garde black metallers AZRAEL have resigned with MORIBUND for 3 albums. They’ll also have their highly acclaimed Act III and Act IV albums released on vinyl this year, both in double-LP gatefold editions, new layouts, and a bonus track each;. MORIBUND will also reissue this year the band’s ultra-rare and highly sought-after Obdurate MCD, possibly with their even-rarer Unto Death demo as a bonus, as well. Lastly, reports the band, “We have the material for the next album already finished. This is a single-CD release with eight songs total, four of which consist of only electric bass, upright bass and drums. There will be an ambient/noise track similar to the last track of the Unto Death demo, which will start out with a solo contrabass piece. The album title and track names are still pending. We are going to record at Winterland again sometime in mid 2008.”