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"VII: The Chariot" is the second card drawn out of ORDER OF THE EBON HANDs Unholy Deck, following up the first card drawn, which was, appropriately for a Black Metal band, "ΧV: The Devil", a card most ideal to swear allegiance. The bands commitment is that each and every following album, will delve in one occult tarot card, seen from a Black Metal perspective. "The Chariot" is the card connecting Mars to Saturn, War and Fate. Appropriately, the album is a rash, remorseless, and warlike creation of archetypal Black Metal, pacing on the principles that define all pure Metal. The fights between identity and death, freedom and oblivion, surround the entirety of the album. Conquest is synonymous to mobilization whether be it mere steps or a full headlong charge to the complete unknown. The faces of war appear, whether it be at sea, land, or air, and the CHARIOT changes shapes. It undergoes metamorphosis from destroyer ships, to nightmare steeds, aerial fighters, armoured demons, heavy cavalry knights, elite infantry, ancient heroes, and demon kings, all bound to a merciless race, in which, after the starting gun - there is no turning back. But the enemy is unclear. For moments it is the obvious. Then it mutates - it simultaneously becomes imprisonment, insomnia, a wish for self-destruction, restlessness, duty, addiction, defeat, then death personified - ultimately the inevitable fate that haunts the mundane. "The Chariot" then becomes the means to exceed the Chariot Itself. The vehicle, whether it be weapon or body, is merely an instrument and not the Self. The conquest itself, becomes a trial of realization, its purpose to destroy all the illusions of life that would prove oblivious at the Ultimate Hour! Eight songs, more than 40 minutes of devastating madness, will not make anyone doubt it, and the guest vocals by Sakis Tolis from Rotting Christ on "Sabnock" will definitely add confidence! Artwork by Vamperess Imperium.