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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Last two Funeral Winds albums sold as bundle gives you a slight discount.
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Funeral Winds '333' CD + Funeral Winds 'Stigmata Mali' CD
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‘This album is dedicated to He, whose name is three hundred and thirty three, and that thrice one’
333 is the title of Funeral Winds 8th studio album and refers to the Dweller in the Abyss, the Demon of Dispersion, also known as Choronzon. Seen as the last great obstacle between the adept and enlightenment, Choronzon needs to be faced to be able to move beyond the Abyss.
Stylistically, this album is raw and cold Black Metal that throws the grit right in your face.
Funeral Winds stays true to the original values of Black Metal, hateful and relentlessly contemptuous in sound and vision.
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released January 26, 2024
Reviews:
'All in all, probably the most wicked black metal album I’ve lain ears upon all year ... A celebration of true olde black metal: primitive, intimidating and crafted with the worst of intentions. A fine return to form.'
Rating: 8/10 Metal Infernal
'If you were ready for some black metal, you might not have been ready for the raw and relentless darkness of Funeral Winds...
‘333’ feels like an album that has been channelled from pure force of will, such is the intensity of the black metal on offer here. There are hints of melody, hints of a more measured answers to the questions posed by this great suffocating darkness, but most of Funeral Winds’ work here is pure, unadulterated black metal suffering. There’s something innately intoxicating about the nature of dark rituals and incantations being hidden within such punishing music, as if that is part of the ritual itself. Funeral Winds will be conducting much of these sacrificial offerings in 2024, this is merely the opening salvo.'
Sandre the Giant/The Killchain
'Raw, unflinching and strangely transcendent, 333 is the wonderfully compelling new album from Funeral Winds, a band who consistently find exciting and thought provoking ways to push their take on frostbitten black metal to new depths.'
Two Guys Metal Reviews
'I am pleased to have received a few albums of no-frills black metal lately, and Funeral Winds's 333 is one of them. Very cold and grim black metal, no bullshit, nothing pretty in the slightest.'
Rating: 4/5 The Metal Crypt/Michel Renaud
'Few bands know how to capture that old, trve sound of bands like early Mayhem and Bathory as strongly as Funeral Winds. The ice-cold, tinny lo-fi production, that raw aggression... Fans of the earlier work can buy it again without any problems, but don't expect anything innovative.'
Rockportaal/Jochem van der Steen
'Delivering a swift and brutal onslaught of pummeling rawness, today we have Funeral Winds with “333”. Featuring eight tracks and nearly 40 minutes of music, this album is not for the faint of heart as it is as raw and punishing as they come.... Overall, “333” is one solid release full of engaging music with a very retro and yet punishing sound. If you like raw and sinister Black Metal, this is an album to fully enjoy.'
Rating 91/100 Infernal Masquerade Webzine
'Being in a league with bands like 1349, Tsjuder, Horna and Nargoroth must be a great feeling (or maybe not, they might hate each other) but either way making metal this black is what Funeral Winds have been consistent with throughout their career... Let the pitch blackness wash over you, bask in Funeral Winds Black Metal greatness, I can assure you that you won’t be disappointed.'
Teeth of the Divine/Jeremy Beck
'Hellchrist Xul plays the way he likes it, the way it's inherent in his nature. No pretense, no posturing, but a direct assault on your subconscious. Everything is gnawed to the bone. I feel like I descend several floors underground every time I see him. It's cold and there's dirt mixed with blood running down the walls. This is where "333" belongs, where wild and crazy rituals were once performed, and this is where it must have been created. Among the old, moldy coffins, next to the dungeons where the fallen priests are buried. There's nothing to do but appreciate the ancient sound, the many morbid ideas and, most importantly, the overall atmosphere, which immediately wins you over. The album is like an inverted, twisted and terrifying prayer, directed downwards, to hell.'
Jakub Asphyx/ Deadly Storm zine
The whirling riffs, fierce melodies and Hellchrist’s trademark snarly and hostile vocals feel like they are entranced in a kind of ritual dance. All elements in the music complement and empower each other, resulting in a way more cohesive outcome.'
FelixS/The Whispering Darkness
'Hellchrist Xul has been writing this kind of music all his life, he has never given up an inch either for credibility or for attitude and, when you buy one of his records, you already know what you will find inside. It would be disappointing if anything the other way around. It has to be offensive. It must be disgusting. It has to be music that not everyone understands, appreciates, tolerates... 333 is the eighth full album of Funeral Winds and continues everything done so far, in the same way as always. Deadly accelerations, riffs placed in the middle to break everything that derive from the veneration of Hellhammer, an almost inimitable sense of demonic evil throughout the album, complete with a surprisingly melodic slow ending (Conjuration of the Blind One, but don't worry, it's not all slow, it hits hard here too).'
Griffar/Metal Skunk
'A fine eighth album from Funeral Winds, one for the purist black metaller who thinks acts like Marduk are overproduced and favour the primal unfettered approach.'
Rating: 8.5/10 Ave Noctum
'The new album by Funeral Winds is a continuation of Hellchrist Xul’s descent into the underworld, cementing his name as one of the driving forces of the underground scene and setting the stage for a new chapter in the coming years, remaining always true to the foundations of our beloved Black Metal.'
The Headbanging Moose
'FUNERAL WINDS skillfully implement traditional Black Metal and are more exciting than many others who try something similar'
A Pagan black metal masterpiece.
Folk and black metal elements fuse into one extremely catchy and awe inspiring album. This band does not disappoint from all the high praise sent it's way. Abyssius Murkraken
The first 30 seconds of "Revenge by Fire" convinced me to get the whole album! It is a face-melting blend of speed and black metal, reminiscent of Hellripper! KVAEN is a Swedish solo project much like Hellripper but many known guest musicians helped J. Björnfot in his endeavor. Altogether it is really a solid debut album, I loved the melodies and the pace changes in the second half too, ending with a "calm" instrumental one. Well-done!! sachavonkarl74