Harridan have a second album. Hul is eight songs built on Akkadian incantations and dedicated to the Mesopotamian spirits the title names, written and recorded by Shamad alone at Silence Grave Studio, and the recording was done across new moons rather than in a block.
The subject is stranger than the usual. Rather than the Western occult canon that black metal has worked over for thirty years, this goes back to a Semitic language nobody has spoken for two thousand years and treats evil as a force with no morality attached, outside worship and outside control. The lyrics run a ritual inversion of the twenty eight celestial degrees of Aries.
The project began on Halloween night in 1997 and stopped altogether in 2010 after what Metal Shock Finland describes as personal turmoil, withdrawal and imprisonment. Twenty nine years in, there are two albums.
It is out digitally and streaming in full. Metal Archives dates the record to 29 November while Metal Shock Finland gives 29 September, so one of the two is a physical edition the other is not counting.