For The Raven by Metgumbnerbone

The final blast! After 42 years, the legendary "For The Raven" tape by Metgumbnerbone is finally being released!
As is known, the album was intended for release on Nekrophile Records back in 1984, but for various reasons the release was cancelled, and Nekrophile ceased its activity shortly after. A bootleg cassette circulated for some time on the underground market, but even that has become incredibly rare.

Almost half a century later (hard to believe, isn’t it!?), the cassette version is finally available, completing the collection of Metgumbnerbone's audio rituals on tape.
Time is nothing - "For The Raven" is an eternal monument to post-industrial / drone / improv music!

Once you've discovered Metgumbnerbone… there's no going back.

"Autumn veins enwrap the bones
bitter frosts crack lips, crack stones
the black winds moan, the branches groan
wail for the goat as the nails drive home
wail for the flayed Metgumbnerbone."

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Reviews:

''For The Raven' was the follow-up to the excellent 'Ligeliahorn' LP and was to be released on Nekrophile Rekords, but sadly never came about. 'For The Raven' is highly listenable and in some ways comparable to (fellow Tynesiders) Soviet France's 'Garista' and 'Mohonomische.' There is a lot of rhythm, drums and metal percussion mixing with flutes, gourds, and (probably) trumpets. Large industrial warehouse sounds of scraping and obsolete machinery mixed with wailing and screaming and at times what sounds like glossolalia (speaking in tongues.) This would have been a perfect Nekrophile release and fits in well alongside Zero Kama, Korpses Katatonik, and LAShTAL.' MuhMur

''For The Raven' is probably my favourite Metgumbnerbone album, due to the fact that it does not parade the Ethnic / Industrial jumble in such a conspicuous and in-your-face-unruly way. In the context of Industrial music, this album is arguably the most traditional and definitely most restrained of the bunch, with its Ethnic elements gingerly blended and/or tucked-in. After 'Dreun,' I needed something just a tad more coherent and structured. Still, I'm glad that Metgumbnerbone had both sides of that aesthetic spectrum covered.' Kazmanovich

Tracklist

1.	Taghairm	15:17

2.	Creegal	4:14

3.	Hollow Hills	9:46
4.	Boneyard	2:11

5.	Citipati	4:55
6.	For The Raven	8:53

7.	Powler's Reach	4:43
8.	Cailleach Bheur	4:49
9.	Dreun	1:56
10.	Black Middens	7:26
11.	Athanasia	2:42

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releases August 1, 2025

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