VALKYRJA set release date for new W.T.C. album, reveal first track – to tour later this month with Marduk and Archgoat

Today, W.T.C. Productions sets November 26th as the international release date for Valkyrja’s highly anticipated fourth album, Throne Ablaze. A work forged in the fires of the ancients with deadly intent to raze the present, Throne Ablaze precludes a full European tour of Valkyrja supporting the equally legendary Marduk and Archgoat (dates below).

Valkyrja was founded in 2004 with the earnest intention of channeling violence, deprivation, and loathing through means of extraordinarily potent audio emissions. Their ideals were permeated by passionate and boundless perversion – a sickly urge festering ever so vibrantly in the essence of its members, a will to cast off the manacles of societal enslavement and leave a dying world behind. While the brotherhood took shape, opposition and defiance surfaced from the deepest recesses of the mind: a fierce hostility towards the laws and morals of their surroundings, notions which felt entirely alien to the band’s core.

As part of Valkyrja’s philosophy of ridding themselves from limitations, no specific genre was ever chosen since it would only serve to establish a framework of useless expectation. The artistic output created under the flag of Valkyrja defies all earthly shackles, including those of commercial categorization. With ideology as lodestar, venturing into darkness without a backwards glance, they took their first fledgling steps on a road staked out by the night itself.

Valkyrjaz’s debut album, The Invocation of Demise, was recorded in Necromorbus Studio during March 2007 and then released in physical form by Northern Silence Productions six months later. Valkyrja quickly gained their reputation as a ferocious live act: a display of carnal lust leaving each stage with the foul scent of death. Drawn to the stench of putrid bereavement, Metal Blade Records contracted the band in 2009. The Invocation of Demise was treated to a re-release by their new ally, thus spreading the curse even further. The same year also saw a return to Necromorbus Studio for the recording of their second album, the most aptly named Contamination. The new tracks would prove to be a crucial part of the band’s live setlist as they, the following autumn, embarked on their first European campaign.

Forged and conceived to reflect blood and fire, the third Valkyrja album, The Antagonist’s Fire, set the world aflame on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year 2013. The opus also marked the beginning of Valkyrja’s long-running collaboration with elite underground label WORLD TERROR COMMITTEE. During the past decade, facilitated by Massive Music and accompanied by titans of extreme metal, over 100 different European cities has been forced to swallow the bitter wine of sonic violence. Furthermore, 2016 and 2017 saw two extensive North American tours with Valkyrja as co-headliner, during which 22 different states were soaked in rotten blood.

Five years removed from the third opus, Valkyrja return under a new guise. The past few years have seen the band subjected to several crucial lineup changes, igniting a period of utter despair that would sow the seeds for what has now come to pass: Throne Ablaze is set for worldwide release on November 26, 2018. The album reflects the passion and dedication of everyone involved, those who face every storm – past and future – with weapon in hand. It will forever stand as a monument of continuous struggles – so right there, in the core of this strife to conquer every obstacle, kneel and obey the fires of the blazing throne!

Kneel before “Crowned Serpent,” the first track to be revealed from Throne Ablaze, HERE

Cover art, courtesy of Nestor Avalos, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Valkyrja’s Throne Ablaze
1. In Ruins I Set My Throne
2. Crowned Serpent
3. Opposer of Light
4. Tombs Into Flesh
5. Halo of Lies
6. Transcendental Death
7. Paradise Lost
8. Throne Ablaze

VIKTORIA EUROPA Part 2
Marduk + Archgoat + Valkyrja + support
Nov 30, 2018 (SVN) Ljubljana @ Winter Days Of Metal
Dec 01, 2018 (ITA) Brescia @ Black Winter Festival
Dec 02, 2018 (SUI) Aarburg @ Musigburg
Dec 04, 2018 (FRA) Paris @ Le Machine
Dec 05, 2018 (BEL) Bruges @ Het Entrepot
Dec 06, 2018 (NED) Hengelo @ Metropool
Dec 07, 2018 (GER) Leipzig @ Felsenkeller
Dec 08, 2018 (CZE) Plzen @ Bozkov
Dec 09, 2018 (GER) Ludwigsburg @ Rockfabrik
Dec 11, 2018 (GBR) London @ The Underworld
Dec 12, 2018 (GER) Trier @ Mergener Hof
Dec 13, 2018 (GER) Essen @ Turock
Dec 14, 2018 (BEL) Arlon @ L’Entrepot
Dec 15, 2018 (NED) Eindhoven @ Eindhoven Metal Meeting
Dec 16, 2018 (GER) Bad Oeynhausen @ Druckerei

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/valkyrjaswe
www.w-t-c.org
www.facebook.com/W.T.C.Productions

Horror Metal Cultists VAULTWRAITH reveal first track from upcoming HELLS HEADBANGERS album – also cover art and tracklisting

Today, horror metal cultists Vaultwraith reveal the new track “Reborn in Charnel Infamy.” The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Light the Candle In Honour of Devils, which will be released by Hells Headbangers during the first quarter of 2019 on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. Hear Vaultwraith’s “Reborn in Charnel Infamy” in its entirety HERE

Light the Candle In Honour of Devils is a 12-song epic of pure Devilcraft Metal: Vaultwraith’s own morbid mix of heavy ’80s-inspired speed/thrash metal, combined with demonic death/black metal riffs/vocals, atmospheric horror-inspired keyboards, and a King Diamond/Candlemass-influenced vibe of evil and doom.

Vaultwraith’s debut album for Hells Headbangers, 2017’s Death is Proof of Satan’s Power, was a surprising and original success with lethal critical praise from the horror and metal underground, including England’s Metal Hammer, who spread the word like deadly metallic fire with a scribe of sheer enthusiasm for the band and album: “From its dazzling artwork to the bewitched insanity of the lyrics, Death Is Proof Of Satan’s Power strides proudly through extreme metal’s schlockiest outreaches and feels almost guaranteed to delight anyone who owns Suspiria on Blu-ray and listens to King Diamond on a regular basis. This is a gruffer, less-polished affair than the great Dane would favor, however, and while there are endless, ghoulish hooks to enjoy, Vaultwraith’s sound is driven along by a filth-ridden blackened thrash undertow, redolent of Usurper at their thuggish best. Songs like ‘Ravaged In The Crimson Mist’ and ‘High Priestess Of The Wolf Coven’ play out like hi-def snapshots of movie-inspired nightmares. More importantly, it’s heavy as hell, metal to the bone, and one of the finest underground releases of late. Satan demands you check it out”

With their second album due out in 2019, again through Hells Headbangers, Vaultwraith’s Light the Candle In Honour of Devils continues the sound and feeling of the debut but going in a much darker direction, cranking up the death metal, black metal, and doom while keeping the lightning thrash metal sound, altogether taking their love of atmospheric European horror literature, film, and art to further heights and gloomy dimensions.

A loose storyline connects the first album with the second album in a clever and yet darkly passionate way, with each song telling a different tale of various characters from the past trapped in their own hellish nightmares, with murder, warlocks, witch-burnings, cursed nuns, and occult burials ready to explode in an inferno of utter vengeance and damnation. The Vaultwraith has RETURNED!

After a very cult underground split 7″ EP with their mentors-in-evil Nunslaughter, and an upcoming split 7″ EP with their blood-brothers in horror Acid Witch (also due out on Hells Headbangers), the undead witch and warlocks of Vaultwraith are prepared for the underground to revel once again in their brand of original and highly infectious Devilcraft Metal with the thundering hooves and macabre-shreddings of Light the Candle In Honour of Devils!

Release date and preorder info to be announced shortly. In the meantime, hear the new track “Reborn in Charnel Infamy” in its entirety HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Vaultwraith’s Light the Candle In Honour of Devils
1. The Welcoming Flames of Oblivion (Intro)
2. Accused Sorceress
3. Reborn in Charnel Infamy
4. Four Beasts Before the Throne
5. Castle of the Accursed
6. The Divine Butcheress
7. Abess Antichrist
8. All the Black Arts At Her Command
9. Betrothed to the Wicked
10. Execution of the Plague Spreader
11. Nächtober Necromancy
12. The Morta-Possessed

MORE INFO:
www.vaultwraith.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/vaultwraith
www.hellsheadbangers.com
www.facebook.com/hellsheadbangers