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Double LP album pressed in a custom hand-poured vinyl blend. The 180g discs include a mixture of transparent aqua mixed with opaque purple, silver, black, and starry marbling flecks of hi-melt white. Hand-poured vinyl swirls & blends in organic and unpredictable ways; making each disc truly unique.
Deluxe, matte varnished, Gatefold packaging and insert featuring artwork by Adam Burke & Adrian Baxter.
Blackbraid — Blackbraid III (Self-Released, Aug 8, 2025) — Review
Blackbraid III is where the project stops feeling like “that killer one-man black metal act with the nature mystique” and starts reading like a full-fledged, album-length myth—paced like a trek from dusk into storm into afterglow. It’s still melodic, still feral, still windswept… but it’s more cinematic and more deliberate about when to sprint, when to hover, and when to let the landscape speak.
Cover-to-cover vibe
If Blackbraid I was a lightning strike and II was the long march, III feels like the sharpened synthesis: it leans into the melodic, high-velocity “lift” the project is known for, but with more interludes/scene-changes that make the heavy parts hit harder when they return. Reviews consistently call out the stronger sense of dynamics and “journey” structure this time around.

There’s also a notable lead-guitar glow-up—more “face-melting” leads and bigger heroic arcs over the blasts, without losing the bite
How it stacks up to I and II
• More focused than II (less “sprawl,” more scene-to-scene momentum). 
• Bigger and more confident than I in terms of arrangement and lead work. 
• It’s increasingly written about as a 2025 high point for modern black metal, not just a “scene curiosity.” 
Best way to listen (so it “tells a story”)
1. Dusk (Eulogy) → sets the dusk-line mood 
2. Wardrums… → Sacred Stag → the first adrenaline peak 
3. The Earth Is Weeping → reset the air in the room 
4. Tears of the Dawn → the album’s big “blood-and-sky” surge 
5. Burning Stars… → Fleshbound → the closing ascent + salute
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