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The Heartbeat of Vurdalak

As Vurdalaks sound developed, there came a moment when Djembe Jesse’s thumping rythmitude did no longer provide enough punch to sufficiently carry the weight of Vurdalak’s heavy folk thrashgrooves. Luckily, Tristan the bassman had a love for sitting down, and especially sitting down while tapping his ever-restless feet to the beat of Vurdalak’s blood-red music meat. Searching his cabin for something bashable, he stumbled across an ancient chest, empty, but oddly enticing. It bore the mysterious name of R. Bloomer on its front. Tristan knew that he needed this chest. He went to a small music shop situated in an even smaller mountain village to the north of Amsterdam, where he bought an ancient Scandinavian pedal-hammer, supposedly containing a shard from the hammer of Thor himself. Tristan, however, didn’t believe in such nonsense, and knew better than to agree to the astronomical, not to mention mythical price named by the shopkeeper. The hammer was purchased, for reasonable payment. Back at home Tristan placed the hammer in front of the box, which was now turned on its side, and brought his foot down hard. The heartbeat of Vurdalak was born.

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please look at the box, not at the handsome fellow playing it