Det Eviga Leendet have put Vehemence online in full, three days before Debemur Morti Productions release it on 13 November.
It is their third album. Lenience came in 2018 and Reverence in 2022, and the three titles read as a set, which is probably the point. The band have been going since 2016, split between Uppsala and Stockholm, and what they play sits on the post black side of the genre: long, cold, more concerned with the shape of a piece than with its speed.
Debemur Morti have been a good home for that. The French label have spent twenty years on bands who treat black metal as a place to build something rather than a style to copy, and this record is in that line rather than outside it.
Streaming a whole album before the release date used to be a risk and is now a tactic. For a band this size it is the difference between a Friday nobody notices and a week of people arguing about the last track.
Vinyl and digital arrive on Friday.