VelnBand

scythe fawn holding a spiked mace in a black dress with overlaid spiked armor pieces

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 ⛓️ & @bandcamp.com friday so support artists directly!

Arüspex - The Death Instinct (cs)
Hoarspire - Labyrinthine Realm (cs)
NIMF - Sirenoscape (cs)
@transgressivemetal.bsky.social - Extreme Transgression (cs)
Transgressive - The Year of 2025 (cs/cd)

📷 @scythefawnn.bsky.social

a person in armor rests in a field of red flowers

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🌹

Dornenbahn - Dornenbahn (cs)
Griddlekeep - Warm Welcome (cs)
Lillian Hexing - The Sound of Spiders Hatching (cs)
@thenecrosexual.bsky.social - Road to Rubble (cs with Shirley Road Records)

📷 @lohhhmyphoto

Looks like my pinky fretting hand mobility is almost back, so I can once again play my beloved minor 9th chords, and even regular minor barres, phew!

Actually the biggest struggle, especially in times when it feels there's a lot on the line

Sometimes after work you just have to lay yourself down & put on an Oblivion ambient ost mix in the background & be thankful for how far you've come

"I can't, I have plans later" The plans: My room *Somber medieval music playing*

this is what i mean when i say that im a night owl (illustration of owl reading a book)

Ew. This label & it's art is a light in the darkness 🖤

“We can try to climb this mountain,” said Frog. “That should tell us if we are brave.”

Really loving Moon Gates by Aura Merlin. Bringing me back to the feeling of comfortably exploring some magical open world. It's enchanting & perfect.

armor & rose photo with a snowy background

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🥀

lagrimas - im not strong enough for this / like when I was a kid (lp/cs)
Owlbear - Feather and Claw (cs)
Secret Sorcery - The Nine Kingdoms of the Undying (cs)
Vëlh - Stelle Cadenti (cs)

📷 karumancy on ig

The cats agree about slowing down, maybe not 15 hrs of sleep a day slowing down but yes, slowing down

Grimly, injured my right hand yesterday, a borderline fracture it seems. Music is definitely out the window for a bit. But the silver lining is that it's impetus to slow down & appreciate things despite the pain, & maybe take a step back to think about artistic direction.

snowy sword shoot by michelle.chald

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🗡️

Baerdcyn - And the Wind Keeps Time (cs)
Diatrekhon Aster - Metroglodyte (cs)
Landstrykar - A Walk Amidst the Cairns (cs)

📷 michelle.chald

thecasualcelt photographed by tashareidphotography

stay safe, protect your neighbors, melt 🧊 ⚔️

Dreichmere - Starless Shores
European Drought - Lullabies for an elven king
@sacral-black.bsky.social - Vile Consumption
@thewillowtea.bsky.social - A Time of Renewal

📷 thecasualcelt by tashareidphotography

It got shat on a lot but I at least had fun seeing it with a friend back when it released. If there's any other dramatization of those events I don't know of it, so it was pretty novel seeing one for the first time.

As many Tolkien fans would say, it's nearly inexpressible how much his works enriched my life, year after year his characters & stories continue to offer comfort & inspiration. Forever thankful to be born at a time to have read his works.

how to remember a gothic cathedral

Teddy Pendergrass - Love T.K.O. (Official Audio) YouTube video by TeddyPendergrassVEVO

youtu.be/Pb4j2UqkOJ0?...

This song really does hit when you're going through it. Well, I'm not currently but I imagine it does - what a singer! I only recently discovered but I believe the ~20 minutes of music I've written for the next Veln album has at least one Pendergrass type chord in it.

I've been looking for this in local bookstores for a good while, I've heard it's amazing! I must trawl through 2nd hand stores again

historically inaccurate armor i’m sure

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🗡️

new:
Benedictine Shadows - Lamented Hymns (cs)
Corpse Bird - Forge (cs)
Desertdweller - Four Gates (cs)

fiadh.bandcamp.com

Wow! Was actually there for the first time earlier in the year, the Gothic cathedral off to the right is something else. The main building is so unique on the inside too. Another prime DS label HQ 😁

benedictine shadows tape mockup

This Friday, Fiadh will release a cassette version of Benedictine Shadow’s Lamented Hymns.

Music for wandering through old cathedrals by Traveller’s Rest, the ensemble fills the air with a reverent, awe-struck wonder...as though the very stones were resonating with something timeless and divine.

photo of light witch

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🗡️

new:
Ambergaze - Dawn’s Void & the Duskborn (CS)
Ossarian - “I” (CS)

shipping by Monday:
all outstanding CS, lathe & vinyl orders (apart from Fen Magus & Heritage)

📷: Courtney Brooke / light_witch (support this wonderful photographer!)

ann hayes with sword for orodrim

it’s #fiadhfriday 🗡️🎃

Druid Stone - The Grateful Undead (cs)
Druid Stone - Undead Poets Society (cs)
Heritage - Verdant Kingdom (cs)
Joy Shannon - In the Forest Singing Sorrowless (cd)
Orodrim - Thanatocracy (cs)
📷 album cover ft. Ann Hayes

fiadh.bandcamp.com

It’s #fiadhfriday 🗡️

Entrøpia - Down in the Swamp of Human Bleakness
@greetlds.bsky.social - I Know How To Die
@lammoth.bsky.social / @gonemage.bsky.social - Aetherfrost Caverns
Wild Beyond - Black Sites in Lower Chambers

fiadh.bandcamp.com
📸: oliviarosephoto on ig
👑: cozykitsune on ig

this and never hearing about an nsbm fest ever again

I saw this & sent a recovery request for an old account. I never even pvp'd, just cut wood 🪓 🪵 & fished 🐟 Peak comfy world! 😆