XANTOTOL - Black Doom Metal LP doom when the band abandoned the

when the band abandoned the polished and well-produced Godflesh-worshiping drum machine-based industrial metal sound of its early and mid '90s beginnings and opted to home-record everything thereafter on a four track recorder and steer their sound toward a more death metal/crust hybridized sound influenced by bands like Amebix

Channelling the spirit of the Brothers Grimm to create an otherworldly atmosphere

which according to the map on the back of the record extends to Toronto and parts of Ontario

both for the sound and attitude

- Brian Turner

XANTOTOL - Black Doom Metal LP doom when the band abandoned theInsert with liner notes. Though relatively small in terms of population and geographic size, Poland made a significant contribution to the development of Black Metal. As the genre matured throughout the 1990s, Poland delivered to the world some of the most earnest and stylistically varied Black Metal the scene has ever known. Among the earliest and most legendary of these Polish bands was Xantotol. Many other bands (particularly those in the Norwegian