The Vision Bleak - Set Sail To Mystery

On their fourth studio album, The Vision Bleak bring their macabre journey full circle. Set Sail To Mystery serves as the definitive quintessence of the duo—Schwadorf and Konstanz—fusing the driving Goth-rock energy of their debut, the dramatic orchestral heaviness of Carpathia, and the biting Nordic aggression of The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey. It is a leather-bound tome of a record, leafing through the band's lethal history while charting a new course into the midnight of death and doom.

Inspired by the masters of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, the album is a supernatural voyage into the abysses of the human mind. From the haunting invocation of Lord Byron in the opening "A Curse Of The Grandest Kind" to the malicious doom swamp of "Mother Nothingness," the duo crafts a world of dramatic pomp and oppressive metal. With operatic vocals, black-metal snarls, and "female furies," this is a varied hell-ride that ensures once you board the deathship, you shall never return.