ARCTURUS "Aspera Hiems Symfonia" Gatefold LP Wolfspell playing alongside such esteemed bands

playing alongside such esteemed bands as Ofermod

Side A: Thoughts/Domestication Of Wildness/Vanity/The Passage

having a great influence over a generation of the genre's subsequent greats - Candlemass themselves taking a large influence from Black Sabbath

After a limited promotional tape made circulation in the underground and two special concert appearances

The primitive structures and melodies give this album an unparalleled trance-like quality

ARCTURUS "Aspera Hiems Symfonia" Gatefold LP Wolfspell playing alongside such esteemed bandsFollowing their early EPs "My Angel" (1991) and "Constellation" (1994), ARCTURUS finally released their debut album "Aspera Hiems Symfonia" in 1996. The Norwegians derived their name from the brightest star of the Northern hemisphere and were obviously influenced by the massively expanding black metal scene of their homeland. Already featuring such well known protagonists as ULVER's Garm and MAYHEM's Hellhammer, the line up on "Aspera Hiems Symfonia"