Saturday 29 February 2020

Kyprian's Circle – Noitatulen Vartija (MCD 1999)


Country: Finland

Tracklist
Ikiyön Liekit 01:06
Kun Puhui Myrskyn Henki 06:27
Noitatulen Vartija 04:51
Helvetin Pajassa On Miekkamme Taottu 03:15
Kuolemasi Minä Olen 03:05

Kyprian Nurmi formed Kyprian's Circle around 1994.
Until 1993 he was playing for another band but he always wanted to make his own music.
During the period 1995-1996 he created 5 tracks in which some riffs of his past years were used.
Around the same time he recorded a demo of two songs for his other project Strigoi Mort that was released in winter 1996.
The aforementioned 5 tracks were recorded in 1996 and mixed at Sound Ateljee studios

for the first Kyprian's Circle demo entitled "In The Mystique Of The Moonbeams" using a drum machine.
Soon after the release Kyprian began gathering material for the next demo.
Four songs were completed with the style of music being now more mature and the tempo having slowed down a bit.
This time he wanted to use a real drummer, so Abyssin joined in as well a bass player,

whereas Shatraug (Horna) and Nazgul (Horna, Pest) took over the vocal duties.
With this line up in the beginning of 1997 the second demo entitled "The Nightwind Tunes"

was recorded again in Sound Ateljee studios.
A year later the third demo "Käärmeenkantaja" was released

with Vsondar handling this time the vocals and Unknown taking over the drums.
For the next release Kyprian used once again Abyssin for the drums and Nazgul of Horna as a vocalist

while the synths were handled by Toni Raehalme and the bass by Sammy Roiha.
Five tracks were recorded in early 1999 for the MCD "Noitatulen Vartija"

that was released in spring of 1999 by the Finnish label Silverhorn Production.
The two first tracks on this release were re-aranged versions of older tracks taken from the demos.
A full-length album was in the future plans to be released on Woodcut Records but this unfortunately was never happened.

 "Noitatulen Vartija" was re-released in 2018 on CD format and, for the first time ever, on 12" vinyl by Werewolf Records.

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