Artist: Cloak
Release Title: Black Flame Eternal
Label: Season Of Mist
Artist: Cloak
Cat: SOM754D
Release Year: 2023
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak with 16-page booklet

Black Flame Eternal is the third album from the American gothic/black metal band Cloak.

In an era that is designed to beat down and weaken the individual, ‘Black Flame Eternal’ is an album that represents strength, empowerment, and total opposition. With mounting pressure to engage in modern societal tribalism, CLOAK invokes a spiritual rebellion that exists beyond good and evil with album number three.

While CLOAK might rage against societal conventions, the Atlanta quartet embraces the rebellious and time-tested traditions of heavy metal. Whether it be the conjuring of the chaotic spirit of Swedish black metal purveyors Watain and Dissection, summoning the deep, dark, and sensual groove of Danzig, or evoking the raw speed and raucous energy of Motörhead, the influence of metal’s founding fathers is deep within CLOAK’s DNA.

The band’s charm, however, does not merely lie within its romanticism of the past, but rather in the way each of these genres has shaped CLOAK’s own personal identity.And with ‘Black Flame Eternal,’ they continue to strengthen their own unique established sound.

Recommended if you like: Watain, Dissection, Behemoth, Rotting Christ, Tribulation, Watain, Dark Funeral, Mayhem, In Solitude, Akercocke, Deathspell Omega

Tracklist:
01. Ethereal Fire (05:37)
02. With Fury and Allegiance (04:46)
03. Shadowlands (05:58)
04. Invictus (06:36)
05. Seven Thunders (05:49)
06. Eye of the Abyss (05:06)
07. The Holy Dark (06:03)
08. Heavenless (02:57)
09. Black Flame Eternal (06:43)

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