Finnish enigmas HEXVESSEL premiere the new video for „Masks of the Universe” on tastemaking web portal The Quietus. The track hails from HEXVESSEL’s latest Iron Marsh, released recently by SVART RECORDS, which serves as a companion EP to their critically acclaimed second album, No Holier Temple. As frontman/mastermind Mat McNerney explains of the epic 13-minute video, „[Carl] Sagan said: ‘Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognise our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.’ Space is the true occult, beyond knowledge or experience. Space scientists and explorers are the modern day wizards and shamans, peering into the heavens and hells of other worlds to give us a glimpse through the fabric of time and dimensions.”HEXVESSEL’s „Masks of the Universe” can be viewed exclusively here: http://thequietus.com/
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR HEXVESSEL’S IRON MARSH:
„Finnish forest folk! Whatever that is, these dudes dig Satan and non-guitar stringed instruments, so I’m down” – Decibel
„Deserves to by synced up with an old Disney movie or experienced with friends as you partake in a mushroom communion” – Exclaim! [8/10 rating]
„This little gem is really like no one else around” – The Digital Fix
„A very unique sound that will give you goosebumps” – InfernalMasquerade.com [8.9/10 rating]
„In a word: sublime” – AveNoctum.com [8.5/10 rating]
„Hexvessel sound like no other…Transcendent” – TheMidlandsRocks.com [8.5/10 rating]
„Yet another milestone in the band’s catalogue and, more generally, a very fine representative of the sort of witching folk that went out of fashion way too soon when it first came around about four decades ago and is now being revisited by talented units such as these” – MusiqueMachine.com [4/5 rating]
„Hexvessel’s finest display of complete originality and domestication of their abilities” – Metal-Temple.com [8/10 rating]
„Just as enchanting as the album it succeeds, while still managing to bring enough of its own personal magick to justify another, shorter trip into the psycho-sylvan realms of Hexvessel” – WormGearZine.com
„Hexvessel at its very finest” – Halifax Collect webzine
„It works better than a lot of the stuff on the new GHOST album, though it’s even less metal. Basically, it’s a big magic mushroom waiting for you to take a bite” – AngryMetalGuy.com