A Sorcery Written in Blood

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A Sorcery Written in Blood
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Demo album by
Released28 April 1993 (1993-04-28)
Recorded4 April 1993
Genre Black metal
Length8:56
Label Self-released
Producer Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth chronology
A Sorcery Written in Blood
(1993)
Promo '94
(1994)

A Sorcery Written in Blood was the first demo released by Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth. [1] The title of the demo was taken from the lyrics of the song "The Return of Darkness and Evil" by the band Bathory. The demo was released in 1993 as a limited edition hand-numbered cassette. A 7" vinyl bootleg also existed; however, there were no official reissues. Due to the Satanic imagery used on the demo cover, the newspaper Firda in Førde in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, ran a front-page story on the demo and Gorgoroth on 7 January 1994. [2] The demo led to the band landing a record deal with French record label Embassy Productions. The track "Sexual Bloodgargling" was an early version of the song "Ritual", re-recorded for Gorgoroth's first album Pentagram .

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Gathered at Blåkulla"1:21
2."Sexual Bloodgargling"3:54
3."(Under) The Pagan Megalith"3:41
Total length:8:56

Gorgoroth

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