Armnatt

Today, Signal Rex announces August 26th as the international release date for Armnatt‘s highly anticipated fourth album, Immortal Nature, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year.

Formed in days and times too clandestine to recall, Armnatt quickly became a touchstone for Portugal’s still-ascendant/descendent raw black metal scene. With their first split coming courtesy of the well-respected Black Gangrene in 2013 and then their debut album, Darkness Times, arriving a year later courtesy of the equally respected Altare, Armnatt‘s cachet was confirmed. And for good reason: the misty-yet-hateful surge the trio conjure speaks of a deeply held (and authentically created) understanding of black metal’s epochal second wave.

In 2020, Armnatt made a blood pact with Signal Rex, which resulted in their second album, Dense Fog, and a long-overdue reissue of Darkness Times. Considering Signal Rex‘s position as Portugal’s premier dispensary of dark & lawless goods, the alignment was fortuitous, to say the very least, and in June 2021 resulted yet another full-length assault on the meek and modest: Eternal Flame.

Dependable, intractable, a year later arrives Armnatt‘s fourth album, Immortal Nature. With yet another simple-yet-elegant title serving as a rallying cry, Immortal Nature bursts and bubbles with that ever-studious primitivism that only Armnatt can deliver. If Eternal Flame saw Armnatt sticking to their guns – no progression, no development, no compromise, no way – then surely, Immortal Nature will disappoint you or even offend. It’s another (HYPNOTIC) spell of destruction, but one that subtly reveals new twists; whether it’s a strangely hummable segment otherwise at odds with “black metal” or more (very relatively) variety of tempos employed or even a scuzzier, more muscular guitar tone, it all still sounds like Armnatt. Which means that Immortal Nature‘s familiarity is almost deceptive, as if in fact a lost relic unearthed from a Bergen bunker decades later: to overstate the obvious, this literally searing simplicity of design can be replicated endlessly, but never faked.

And to add further overstatement, black metal never needed to develop because it was perfect early on. Dependably, intractably, Armnatt again resist change and the ever-shifting sands of “good taste,” and paint their own Dorian Gray with Immortal Nature.

Witness the first brush strokes with the brand-new track “Black Flame” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Armnatt’s Immortal Nature
1. All Is Silent
2. Immortal Nature
3. Imponent Ruins
4. Eternal Entity
5. Black Flame
6. Images Of The Past
7. Wilderness Domain
8. Shadow Dust
9. Infinite Darkness
10. Nature Take Its Course

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Today, Portuguese black metal antagonists Armnatt stream the entirety of their highly anticipated third album, Eternal Flame. Now set for international release on June 11th via Signal Rex, hear Armnatt‘s Eternal Flame in its entirety here:

Formed in days and times too clandestine to recall, Armnatt quickly became a touchstone for Portugal’s still-ascendant/descendent raw black metal scene. With their first split coming courtesy of the well-respected Black Gangrene in 2013 and then their debut album, Darkness Times, arriving a year later courtesy of the equally respected Altare, Armnatt‘s cachet was confirmed. And for good reason: the misty-yet-hateful surge the trio conjure speaks of a deeply held (and authentically created) understanding of black metal’s epochal second wave.

In 2020, Armnatt made a blood pact with Signal Rex, which resulted in their second album, Dense Fog, and a long-overdue reissue of Darkness Times. Considering Signal Rex‘s position as Portugal’s premier dispensary of dark & lawless goods, the alignment was fortuitous, to say the very least, and now results in another full-length assault on the meek and modest: Eternal Flame.

Ever aptly titled, Eternal Flame sees Armnatt sticking to their guns – no progression, no development, no compromise, no way. If you weren’t swayed by their spell of destruction the last time around, then nothing will change your mind with Eternal Flame. However, if you feel under their hypnosis and submitted to splendors too taboo to speak of, then Eternal Flame will stoke those same fires and just as potently. Just like its acclaimed predecessor, Armnatt here resurrect the spectres of 1994, the glare of burning churches lighting the way to the pagan megalith. And just like that predecessor, Eternal Flame‘s familiarity is almost deceptive, as if in fact a lost relic unearthed from a Bergen bunker decades later; again, this literally searing simplicity of design can be replicated endlessly, but never faked.

Black metal never needed to develop because it was perfect early on. Armnatt resist change and the ever-shifting sands of “good taste,” and deliver to the faithful a new torch in which to burn down one’s life: Eternal Flame.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Armnatt’s Eternal Flame
1. The Ancient Path
2. Darkness Embrace
3. All In Ruins
4. Black Moon
5. Magestic Shadows
6. Dark Moon Rising
7. Eternal Flame
8. Immortal Might
9. Hordeland
10. What Once Was

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