New von album out now

U.S Black Metal band Von are due to release their very first full length studio recording today. Their debut album is titled "Satanic Blood", and has been released through the band's own label, Von Records.

The new album's name will probably cause a bit of confusion due to several of the band's demos and EPs sharing a similar, if not identical name. The band's most famous release to date is a demo called "Satanic Blood" which was released in 1992, followed by a compilation album titled "Satanic Blood Angel" released in 2003. Upon officially reuniting in 2010 after 18 years of inactivity, they released an EP which was also titled "Satanic Blood", and later that year they released a DVD titled "Satanic Blood Ritual" featuring two concerts recorded in 1991.

With some luck this latest album will be the definitive "Satanic Blood" release, and they will resort to other album titles for future releases...

The track list for "Satanic Blood" is as follows:

1. Jesus Stain
2. Devil Pig
3. Venien
4. Release
5. Veadtuck
6. Vennt
7. Evisc
8. Goat Christ
9. Dissection InHuman
10. Chalice of Blood
11. Blood Von
12. Christ Fire
13. Backskin
14. Watain
15. Blood Angel
16. Lamb
17. Satanic Blood
18. Satan
19. Litanies of Von

Fans of the band will recognize many song titles from previous Von releases. Von originally formed in 1988 in San Francisco, U.S.A, and soon gained attention by playing a very raw and minimalist style of Black Metal, a genre that was previously almost unheard of at the time on the West Coast, a region that was saturated with many Thrash Metal and Death Metal bands. They gained further attention when Varg Vikernes of Burzum fame appeared one day in court wearing a Von shirt during his murder trial.

The new album can be purchased here.