The Mosaic Window - Answered Prayers [Old Blood Vinyl]

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: DUSK0437
Barcode: 4255939804373
Release Date: 13 Nov 2026
Genre: Black

On Answered Prayers, The Mosaic Window pulls back from the more polished, prog-tinged death/black hybrid of 2024's Hemasanctum and returns to the project's original core: first and second wave black metal, filtered through atmospheric shrieks of despair and phantasmal, buried death growls. The album's nihilistic concept — humanity erased retroactively, centuries before the Industrial Revolution, as the only "cure" for a poisoned world — plays out across ten tracks of cold, apocalyptic fury. Highlights include the blistering, melodic "Serpentine" and "Devotion to My Burning Desire," the more dynamic, mid-tempo "Lightning Be Thy Guide," and "What Sage Could Not Cleanse" — an older composition that anchors the album's back-to-roots direction. Mixed and mastered by Alex Sedin (Ghostalgy Productions), with Dmitry Kim (Jinjer) on session drums.

Tracklisting
1. Premonition Of The Prophecy
2. The Fog Carries Plague
3. Serpentine
4. Lightning Be Thy Guide
5. What Sage Could Not Cleanse
6. Blood And Chains
7. Unsheathing The Fall Of Man
8. Crusader
9. Echoes Of Answered Prayers
10. Devotion To My Burning Desire