Vital Spirit - Withering Fire ( official audio )

Vendetta Records and Hidden Tribe proudly present VITAL SPIRIT’s highly anticipated debut album, Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind. Self-described as “Saccharine Black Metal of the West,” VITAL SPIRIT began in 2020 as a collaboration between Kyle Tavares (Seer, Wormwitch) and Israel Langlais (Wormwitch). Eager to return to the studio after completing their EP In the Faith That Looks Through Death, the band wrote and recorded their full length during the spring of 2021. Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind displays the array of VITAL SPIRIT’s mesmerizing vision. In addition to the familiar second wave black metal and cinematic western influences of the preceding EP, the duo incorporated elements of “cowboy psychedelia“ of the ’60s, resulting in a sound that’s dazzling and daring in equal measure, both acutely focused and furiously unbound. With preternatural deftness, VITAL SPIRIT here also leaned into their neofolk side, especially on “Saccharine Sky,“ the band’s