Pa Vesh En - Martyrs (full album, 2023)

Since Knife Ritual, Pa Vesh En has stood among my most revered acts, and it is my great honour to present an advance stream of the torturously euphoric blessing of Martyrs; the fourth full length album, due for official release this Friday, 19th May through Iron Bonehead Productions. If there is any band from outside of Portugal that could bear the suffocating weight of the robes of Black Cilice then it is this Belarusian mage. From the depressive, isolationist ritualistic murk of previous releases emerges this three-act album; Vigilia – Liturgy - Emanation; that completes the passes of darkness begun with the earlier incantations of this project, and opens up a newly fetid chasm of subterranean dirt, ushering in lunar peaks of heightening ascendency. This is at once, Pa Vesh En’s work of most inhospitable bleak noise, and spirit-awakening clarity, with riffs that carve luminescent shapes through the morose atmosphere, forging a path for an ethereal female voice to bring the album to a cl