When we here at WoM ran across Cleric's music it almost seemed as if some kind of prophesy was being fulfilled. The music registered in our minds as a kind of missing link, like an inevitable stage in metal-oriented music that has needed to happen for a long time now. Yet somehow the seat of that destiny has remained ever vacant until this particular band came along. Like everything good, it took the tireless commitment of people unifying behind a vision which for some reason always ends up having to fight against every stream, every atrophy, every regression into easy answers, in order to reach its goal. There's no accounting for how "niche" bands are perceived, even when they are fulfilling a destiny as clear as the one Cleric has taken on. It's for this reason that lowly WoM is once again graced by one of the finest and well-honed musical expressions to emerge from any music scene in the last decade.

This is:

• 12" full color picture disk in full color gatefold package, from Sound Devastation Records
• side a is vinyl-only version of "Cumberbund" from Regressions
• side b, "The Tower," is exclusive to this vinyl release and contains a locked groove
• recorded and engineered by Colin Marston at the Paincave and Menegroth Studios

PLEASE NOTE: Our stock of Cleric vinyls is EXTREMELY limited. First come, first served while quantities last.

Also available: Cleric's Regressions CD, or save money with a CD+Vinyl package.