The Devil’s Blood – The Time Of No Time Evermore (2009)

Released in North America on the 25th of May 2010 (but available in Europe since September 11th 2009) by Van Records in Germany, The Time Of No Time Evermore by the Dutch Devil's Blood brings back a feeling of ghosts, of 'Das Unheimliche'. Haunted by its own beautiful ghosts, it resonances the familiar/unfamiliar groundbreaking uncanny music of bands like Black Sabbath and Coven. I don't buy into the whole occult thing on a literal level, but I love the theme of the occult in the literary sphere. Not to mention my love for acts like Blood Ceremony, Coven, etc. Being uncanny, The Time Of No Time Evermore sounds and feels familiar, yet foreign at the same time. According to Freud, this results in a feeling of 'it' being uncomfortably strange. Yet there is another aspect of the uncanny. (There are dozens by the way). It can also be linked to the mysterious possibilities of a literal dark space, for example, imagine the exciting, mysterious feeling of a night in the woods. Exactly this quality sets the record apart from the bulk of releases in the doom genre. -Full review at Doommantia.com

Debut full-length on Ván Records (also available as limited handmade vinyl).

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