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• Digipak CD - What is Imposed Must Be Endured

  Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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  RELEASED ON 5TH APRIL 2019
  
  Recorded over 4 days in the cold darkness of the derelict “Penny Red” building, Hull, Northeast England, November 2017.
  Produced, engineered and mixed by Daniel Elms.
  Mastering by James Plotkin.
  Artwork by Thomas Hooper.
  All songs written and performed by Blind Monarch.
  Guest vocals on “Living Altar” performed by Fiona Blyth.
  Copyright Blind Monarch 2019, all rights reserved.
  
  Adam Blyth: Guitar
  Tom Blyth: Voice
  Paul Hubbard: Bass
  Lee Knights: Drums
  
  Track Listing
  
  1. Suffering Breathes My Name
  2. My Mother, My Cradle, My Tomb
  3. Blind Monarch
  4. Living Altar
  
  Please Note, CD's ship from the Black Bow records distro in The Netherlands, Blind Monarch do not have any copies of the album on CD format within the UK.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of What Is Imposed Must Be Endured via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more
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  edition of 250 

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• Tape Cassette - What is Imposed Must Be Endured

  Cassette + Digital Album

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  Card 'CRUCIFORM' sleeve of the debut album by Blind Monarch
  
  RELEASED ON 5TH APRIL 2019
  
  HAND NUMBERED
  
  WORLDWIDE SHIPPING
  
  Limited to 50 copies
  
  Recorded over 4 days in the cold darkness of the derelict “Penny Red” building, Hull, Northeast England, November 2017.
  Produced, engineered and mixed by Daniel Elms.
  Mastering by James Plotkin.
  Artwork by Thomas Hooper.
  All songs written and performed by Blind Monarch.
  Guest vocals on “Living Altar” performed by Fiona Blyth.
  Copyright Blind Monarch 2019, all rights reserved.
  
  Adam Blyth: Guitar
  Tom Blyth: Voice
  Paul Hubbard: Bass
  Lee Knights: Drums
  
  Track Listing
  
  A
  1. Suffering Breathes My Name
  2. My Mother, My Cradle, My Tomb
  
  B
  3. Blind Monarch
  4. Living Altar
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of What Is Imposed Must Be Endured via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more

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• What Is Imposed Must Be Endured 2 x Vinyl LP

  Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

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  Dry Cough and Heavenly Vault are teaming up once again, this time to give an overdue vinyl release to “What is Imposed Must Be Endured”, the debut album from Blind Monarch.
  
  The Sheffield quartet play punishing, despondent doom in the vein of Burning Witch, with a little bit of Grief-style sludge thrown in to help keep things suitably rotten.
  The album is made up of four lengthy tracks; much of which is played at volume, with pulverising distortion worthy of Corrupted, though the listener is afforded brief moments of respite courtesy of atmospheric flourishes Bell Witch would be proud of.
  
  The album was originally released on CD & Cassette back in April 2019 by Black Bow Records, but for whatever reason flew under the radar of many, something that helped influence our decision to give this monster of an album the vinyl treatment we feel it deserves.
  
  Blind Monarch are easily one of the best doom bands around right now, and it still amazes us that this was their very first release; there are established bands half a dozen releases into their career who have never come close to putting out a record as impressive as “What Is Imposed Must Be Endured”. When the world returns to some semblance of normality, we can’t wait to see how they top this.
  
  “What Is Imposed Must Be Endured” will be released on double LP, housed in a 350gsm gatefold sleeve, so as to showcase the stunning artwork of Thomas Hooper.
  
  Mastered by James Plotkin (KHANATE/O.L.D.)
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of What Is Imposed Must Be Endured via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more
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