4-page color booklet, circulation 300 copies

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Track-list:

1. Close Tired Eyelids
2. Truth's Path
3. Glorify Hymns
4. Pure Crystal of Cognition
5. Hail, Father Lucifer!
6. Nearer To Victory

HAGL’s limited edition CD “Nearer To Victory” is the first full-length album in the band’s discography, it signifies the beginning of cooperation with CASUS BELLI MUSICA.
The album represents rather sincere work in the vein of melodic Black Metal flavoured with Thrash/Death Metal elements, and it bears openly anticlerical nature owe to the lyrics affected by Norwegian Black Metal groups of the first wave.
Although HAGL was not a satanic band at all, such kind of images was peculiar to their early stuff before their ideological growth and before the appearance of HAGL’s interest in Nordic traditions.
The album was recorded by:
Swarm (ex-MOLOTH (2003 – 2008), ex-DJUR (2007 – 2009), STELLA ARJA, S.WAR.M., TEN', TANGORODREAM) – guitars, bass, vocal,
Ashahn – drums.
Early demos of HAGL were released in Germany and Russia by some underground labels, but “Nearer To Victory” is the first CD in the history of the group.