Spectral Wound ‎– A Diabolic Thirst LP Death Hymns Thus it was spoken Thus it was spoken stripped down essence of the recording with the ornate and complex melodies and florid compositional accents is a perfect complement to the album’s boldly unique detail of the Napoleonic era “A Diabolic Thirst” not only captures that pure classic melodic black metal essence that was eminent in the late ‘90s very early ‘00s but also serves its purpose today as a masterowk of glorious blackened magnitude the band take their own methodology of Quebecois black metal through vicious sonic layers that culminate in six triumphant ferocious hymns where blood freezing melodies and harsh yet massive overtones bring a decadent and euphoric flow to this glorious masterwork the band have conjured