lunaticpathos
Incredibly clever and fun lyrics and vocals surrounded by music that elevates them. Vexing Hex grafts onto your soul like a demon ghost.
Favorite track: Into the Night.
Akira Watts
Covering similar sonic territory as does early Ghost, Vexing Hex manages to outdo their primary influence thanks to better songwriting, higher energy, and a healthy dollop of sleaze. Ridiculously catchy and ridiculously fun.
Favorite track: One Thousand Eyes.
Shiela Dixon
The perfect witch's brew of raunch and hooks, 60s rock and melodic metal. All with delightfully dark themes. Already one of my favourite albums of the year.
Favorite track: Solve Et Coagula!.
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Jewel Case CD with full-color 6 panel insert. Professionally replicated. Layout designed by David Jaggar.
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Jewel Case CD with full-color 6 panel insert. Professionally replicated. Layout designed by David Jaggar.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This CD comes directly from Vexing Hex and does not ship from Wise Blood Records. If requested, cover or inside of insert can be signed by Cadaverus.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: I write personalized thank-you notes for all orders. If the name on your order isn’t what you go by, or if you have a preferred or chosen name, please leave a note at checkout. Thank you!
Includes unlimited streaming of Solve Et Coagula
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12" LP on 180g heavy vinyl. Chaos Color is Wise Blood's mystery color. Each copy is uniquely pressed with random eco-friendly recycled inks. Comes with a full-color 2-sided insert. Layout designed by David Jaggar.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This LP comes directly from Vexing Hex and does not ship from Wise Blood Records. If requested, cover or insert can be signed by Cadaverus.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: I write personalized thank-you notes for all orders. If the name on your order isn’t what you go by, or if you have a preferred or chosen name, please leave a note at checkout. Thank you!
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Official Solve Et Coagula woven patch by Pull the Plug Patches. Available with green or purple border.
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Shirt
She cast a spell on him, conjuring necromance...
Ward off the witch's mark in this stylish tee depicting a temptress and her prey in shining silver.
Screen printed on black Gildan Softstyle T-shirts. Printed by Embodiment Printing.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This shirt comes directly from Vexing Hex and does not ship from Wise Blood Records.
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She cast a spell on him, conjuring necromance...
Bear the witch's mark in this stylish tee depicting a temptress and her prey in void black.
Screen printed on pink Gildan Softstyle T-shirts. Printed by Embodiment Printing.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This shirt comes directly from Vexing Hex and does not ship from Wise Blood Records.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: I write personalized thank-you notes for all orders. If the name on your order isn’t what you go by, or if you have a preferred or chosen name, please leave a note at checkout. Thank you!
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12" Vinyl LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12" LP on 180g heavy vinyl. Chaos Color is Wise Blood's mystery color. Each copy is uniquely pressed with random eco-friendly recycled inks. Comes with a full-color 2-sided insert. Layout designed by David Jaggar. Limited to 200 copies.
USA Shipping: Late June 2024
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Tie Dye Shirt + Vinyl Bundle
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition tie dye "VViccaphobia" shirt and a 12" LP. The shirt is dyed by hand (commissioned from IG @dye_dye_dye_my_darling) and limited to 15 total shirts. Each Chaos Color vinyl copy is uniquely pressed with random eco-friendly recycled inks. Comes with a full-color 2-sided insert. Layout designed by David Jaggar.
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2 x LP Bundle: Vexing Hex & Castle Rat
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A 12" Vinyl copy of both Vexing Hex "Solve Et Coagula" and Castle Rat "Into the Realm." The Vexing Hex LP is a one-of-a-kind Chaos Color made from recycled ink. The Castle Rat LP is the Wise Blood exclusive variant, limited to 200 copies.
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Wise Blood 2024 Vinyl Bundle (4 x LPs)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12" Vinyl copies of all 4 Wise Blood albums released in 2024:
1) Castle Rat "Into the Realm"
2) Vexing Hex "Solve Et Coagula"
3) Suffer "Grand Canvas of the Aesthete"
4) Wizard Death "I Am the Night"
A great way to support Wise Blood and get all of our vinyl releases at a discounted price!
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Something wicked this way comes from the haunted cornfields of Illinois. Formed in 2014, Vexing Hex play doom rock and occult pop possessed by sharp melodies and genre-hopping devilry.
Their lore begins in the late aughts, when a group of outsider youths formed a horror punk band called The Haunts. After a hiatus, the remaining members reconvened in 2014 for one last hurrah. After an unexplained supernatural occurrence, they were possessed by forces beyond this realm. All that’s clear is the revenant witchlords of Vexing Hex are using these mortal vessels to spread their melodic witchery throughout the remains of this world.
“Vexing Hex is a pastiche of the past half-plus century of pop, alternative, and heavy music steeped in occult horror imagery,” shares Cadaverus, Lord of Dread. “We tend to wear our influences on our wizard’s sleeve, with artists such as Ghost, Danzig, Alice In Chains, the Beatles, and DEVO being some that come to mind.”
On their sophomore album Solve Et Coagula, Vexing Hex conjure the specters from numerous (un)dead genres. Occult Doom. Traditional Heavy Metal. ‘80s New Wave. Grunge. Prog Rock. The album is an eclectic, many-headed beast defined by its indefinable charm. Thematically, the album explores alchemy and transformation, death and rebirth, light and darkness, existential dread, as well as psychological horror and eldritch realms.
“Solve Et Coagula means to break something down to its basic elements and reform it into something new, and we vaguely attempted to do that with our musical DNA for this album,” Cadaverus explains. “Haunt was a very esoteric and gloom-laden album. While there’s no lack of that doom-stricken atmosphere on Solve Et Coagula, we also cut loose a bit, explored some fresh influences, and injected some more whimsy and camp into the concoction. The resulting distillation is a familiar but more potent Vexing Hex, with some new flavors expressed within our sonic cocktail.”
On June 21st, Vexing Hex will unleash Solve Et Coagula on this mortal realm. The album will be released on Vinyl, CD, and Digital from Wise Blood Records. Until then, track down one of the few remaining artifacts of their Haunt debut before venturing “Into the Night” with Vexing Hex.
credits
released June 21, 2024
Vexing Hex is:
Cadaverus, Lord of Dread - Lead Vocals, Guitar
Hastur, Lord of Madness - Bass, Vocals
Liminos, Lord of Illusion - Guitar, Vocals
Radament, Lord of Despair - Vocals, Drums
Viscera, Lord of Torment - Keys
All music and lyrics by Chris Cadaverus
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Chris Cadaverus
Drums engineered by Zakk Burke at the Roadhouse Studio
Drum compositions by Radament
Auxiliary percussion performed by Sanguine the Bat
Guest vocal on “Revivified” by Cuntess Bitchory
Drum samples on “Sarcophagus” created by Jaiden Claudía Lewis
Artwork by Victor Lopez
Group photos by Laura Woelfle
Logo by Dan Capp
Layout by David Jaggar
supported by 72 fans who also own “Solve Et Coagula”
Reminds me of something I would try to play on Rocksmith. Melodic and dark, as if adorned in shadow. If you like guitars and heavier styles you'll probably like it. Actually worth a listen when one has time to listen. It was a other good choice. 🥚 🥚 🧺 Michael
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supported by 61 fans who also own “Solve Et Coagula”
What a ride. Finally listened to it this morning and I can’t put it down. There’s so much of all the elements that make a great black metal band here and Krigsgrav take it to the bank in a heartbeat. So much zeal and fire! Absolutely blistering melodies. Piper Haqim
