Label: Northern Silence Productions – NSP 173-DG
Released: 2019.
Collector's edition in 6-panel digipak, including four bonus tracks.
Limited edition - 999 copies.
Haimad was formed in Sundsvall, Sweden, in 1994 and released two demos and an EP between 1995 and 1999, after which they went on a long hiatus. Many years passed without any sign of life before Azradan, the only one of the founding members, decided to revive the band and recruited a new line-up to create symphonic black metal in the best traditions of mid-90s Scandinavian black metal. And who else, apart from the musicians who were part of the same scene at the time, could create something that so strongly reminds of the good old days? 25 years after their founding, Haimad release an EP, a dream come true for any fan of albums like "In the Nightside Eclipse", "The Sad Realm of the Stars", "Seen Through the Veils of Darkness", "Provenance of Cruelty", "Stormblast", "In Times Before the Light", "Moon in the Scorpio" or "Tusen Ar Har Gatt". If you grew up on these masterpieces, then listening to Haimad's "The Return" is like coming home after a long absence, because the material on this EP is absolutely in no way inferior to the classics, and it sounds as if it was written over 20 years ago. As a special bonus, the band allowed Northern Silence to include demo versions of all four songs in the first edition, which differ in sound and some variations from the final recordings. Fans of underground releases will undoubtedly appreciate their original brilliance as much as we do. For Northern Silence, old-school symphonic black metal simply cannot sound better!
Bonus tracks are not listed on the release.
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