In among all of the reissues of Drudkh's back catalog that Season Of Mist has cranked out over the past year and a half, they also put out this two song 10" Ep from the Ukranian black metallers that was meant to be a kind of teaser for the then-upcoming new full length Handful Of Stars. The Ep was also made available on Cd as part of the limited edition "leather book" edition of Handful..., which is long gone. This vinyl version features both songs, both covers, and includes a download card for a digital copy of the music. The two covers that Drudkh selected for this are perfectly suited for Drudkh's brand of moody, folk-influenced black metal. The first is a cover of "Indi�nsk� P�se� Hr�zy" originally from the legendary avant garde Czech black metal band Master's Hammer, draped in lush, ethereal guitars that start the song and lead into the majestic, solemn epic metal. It's a folk-flecked epic that

breaks off into brief passages of flutes and acoustic strum, kicking back into the droning melancholic metal in the middle, with harmonized chanting vocals. It takes off into an awesome blasting melodic black metal blast towards the end, buzzing blasting majesty where the vocals finally become a scathing shriek, and then breaks down into a loping mid tempo, then into an even slower, doom-laden, grief-stricken lament at the end. Killer.

The flipside has a ten-minute cover of "Tam Gdzie Gasnie Dzien" from Polish pagan black metallers Sacrilegium, opening with spacey, atonal guitar and cavernous ambience, then a chugging droning metal riff comes in over martial drums and the song becomes an epic folk-tinged doom laden black metal dirge with soaring Floydian solos, and it ends up sounding like something that would have been right at home on the latest album or Microcosmos.