Countess Erzsebet - Countess Erzsebet (EP 2023)

Bandcamp: Facebook: COUNTESS ERZSEBET is the work of Rachel Bloodspell Moongoddess, who’s previously played bass for a number of bands but more recently Xasthur, where she did three tours playing acoustic bass and was on the Aestas Pretium MMXVIII EP. A guitar/bass-maker learning the luthier trade, Rachel plays in COUNTESS ERZSEBET her own electric bass and guitar she both built. All instrumentation in the band - guitar, bass, organ, vocals, and programming - is handled by Rachel, with four of the upcoming mini-album’s songs featuring drums by S.P. of Spirit Possession and Pandiscordian Necrogenesis. Trained in classical piano and jazz bass and guitar as a child, Rachel’s unique upbringing is subtly interwoven into Countess Erzsebet. - Previously monikered Erzsebet and having digitally released the nearly-album-length Black Spell in 2017, Rachel’s rebirth as COUNTESS ERZSEBET marks a clear, new epoch for the one-woman band. Whereas that previous recording was more than half acoustic and largely instrumental, Countess Erzsebet builds a grimier and ghastlier soundworld where the likes of Goblin, Ved Buens End, Mercyful Fate, Coven, Leviathan, and Bathory all bubble in a murky, mysterious cauldron - and what emerges sounds entirely unique, and entirely COUNTESS ERZSEBET. Olde-worlde and unorthodox, Rachel here harkens to lonelier, more vanguard days for black metal, brimming with a bounty of ideas that seem strange on the surface, but all eventually are threaded together with bedeviling witchcraft. With Hammer-horror organ and her whisper-to-a-scream vocals at the forefront, COUNTESS ERZSEBET here creates a remarkably varied canvas where each track holds its own identity - be it primitive gutter pulse or wandering-in-the-woods ethereality, ultra-minimalist doom or occultic torch song - and they’re then sequenced in a manner that creates an all-consuming experience. And one, above all, that is HAUNTING beyond belief: Rachel’s own music videos and plans for using the mini-album as the soundtrack to an independent short film no doubt render Countess Erzsebet a cinematic work. - Out of the dungeons and into the woods, spells cast and the Self recast, COUNTESS ERZSEBET displays a bold & brazen landscape on which to roam with Countess Erzsebet. ==== 01 In the Blood of Virgins 00:00 02 Glorification of the Profane 02:38 03 666 05:08 04 PRAY TO THE DEVIL 08:38 05 Obliteration of Thy Enemy 12:24 06 Exile Into Depravity 16:38 ==== **************** Support the Channel Buy a Coffee for 666MrDoom ******************