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Fluisteraars - Jacht der Mysteriën album cover

Fluisteraars

Atmospheric Black MetalPost-Black Metal

Jacht der Mysteriën

NL · Eisenwald · 2026

Three tracks, forty-two minutes, and the band say they played the whole thing in one take. The closer is the quietest and the widest piece here.

Three tracks, forty-two minutes, and according to the band the record was played and captured in a single take. Thirteen minutes, then ten and a half, then eighteen and a half. That is the whole album, and it is the sixth one from this group out of Bennekom.

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