The Essence of Black Purity
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The Essence of Black Purity is the third release by the black metal
band Watain
. It was released in 1999 on EP
format on Grim Rune Records. It was limited to 300 copies.
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band Watain
Watain
Watain is a Swedish black metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1998. The band's name is taken from a recording by the American black metal group Von.- History :...
. It was released in 1999 on EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
format on Grim Rune Records. It was limited to 300 copies.