Formed in 2023 in the northern depths of Finland, Beleth’s Trumpet create uncompromising black art for the glory of Satan. The quartet released their debut demo the next year, which went through two different pressings courtesy of the respected Korpituli Productions. No more but definitely no less, Beleth’s Trumpet‘s public debut was paradigmatic Finnish black metal, played with passion and authenticity. 

And so it goes with their full-length debut, Chapel of Bones. Everything that earmarked that demo is amplified here: songwriting full of freezing fire, austere ‘n’ arrogant execution, fully-felt physicality and yet no shortage of mystical atmosphere. For sure, Beleth’s Trumpet remain committed to their aesthetic – not for nothing has Finnish black metal become THE reigning paradigm since the dawn of this cursed millennium – but across the seven-song / 43-minute album do they display subtle degrees of development; black metal doesn’t need to “be” anything other than black metal, after all. Thus, grim ‘n’ glorious waves of early 2000s nostalgia shimmer across this Chapel of Bones, for it is dedicated to the timeless King, Death itself. With the scent of bottomless graves and the sound of clattering bones, they blow the Beleth’s Trumpet! “A monument for those who walked this path before me…”

Tracklisting for Beleth’s Trumpet’s Chapel of Bones