Black Metal

BLUTGOTT reveal sixth video from new MASSACRE triple-album, released today

For today’s release of the new studio album Dracul Drakorgoth via Massacre Records, BLUTGOTT present the video for the title track in the “Balgeroth” version. See & hear the video here:

THE BLUTGOTT METAL UNIVERSE

DEBAUCHERY– Monster Metal

BLOOD GOD– Hard Rock & Heavy Metal

BALGEROTH– German Metal

Over 20 years, singer and guitarist Thomas Gurrath has created an entire band universe with over 30 CDs spread across more than 17 albums from Debauchery, Blood God, and Balgeroth. He has united this Trinity of Blood Gods under the name BLUTGOTT.

Musically, the band moves across genres somewhere between Judas Priest, Slayer, AC/DC, Rammstein, and Bolt Thrower. There is pounding death metal, classic heavy metal, and groovy hard rock, sometimes with screeching vocals, sometimes with the distinctive monster voice, sometimes clean, and everything in between.

The lyrics – in German and English – deal with the band’s own dark fantasy universe: the World of Blood Gods, named after the Blood Gods – biomechanical vampire dragons with demonic abilities.

The three most infamous are Bal-Geroth, the Bloodking of Knochenheim; Dracul Drakorgoth, the Debauchery Blood God; and Setekh Drakorgaur, the Red Dragon. Together, they form the Trinity of Blood Gods.

In the war zones of the past and future, on Earth, Eden, other planets, and Hell, they fight brutal battles against elves, humans, and dwarves, as well as other demons. The World of Blood Gods has its own miniatures and its own tabletop game, called Kings of Carnage.

Concerts of the various incarnations of the BLUTGOTT Metal Universe have been held throughout Europe, Russia, and Asia. They have performed with Doro, Saxon, Dismember, Napalm Death, Destruction, and many other well-known bands from the metal scene and played at major festivals such as Wacken, Summer Breeze, and Bang Your Head. The albums are regularly in the top 50 of the official German album charts.

The new album Dracul Drakorgoth will be released on September 20th via Massacre Records and contains ten completely new songs each with the Debauchery Monster Voice, once with the German Balgeroth lyrics and also with the Blood God Heavy Metal voice. It will be available as 3CD digipack as  well as limited-edition box, and the Debauchery and Balgeroth versions each as limited-edition vinyl LP. The album was recorded by Dennis Ward (Unisonic, Krokus, Helloween).

In addition, there is the Blutfest Tour with a BLUTGOTT live show for the new album and 20 years of monsters and metal. Dates follow after the jump. Cover and tracklisting are as folllows:

Tracklisting for BLUTGOTT’s Dracul Drakorgoth

CD1 Debauchery Version

1. We Create Metal

2. Dracul Drakorgoth

3. Fire and Steel

4. Crusade Against Humanity

5. Overdrive of Brutality

6. Dragonsteel

7. Blood for Balgeroth

8. Setekh Drakorgaur

9. Blood Demands Blood

10. Drakespawn

CD 2 Balgeroth Version

1. Drachenlegion

2. Dracul Drakorgoth

3. Feuer und Stahl

4. Drachendivision

5. Blutgott Monsterhorde

6. Drachenstahl

7. Blut für Balgeroth

8. Setekh Drakorgaur

9. Blut verlangt Blut

10. Drachenbrut

CD3 Blood God Version

1. We Create Metal

2. Dracul Drakorgoth

3. Fire and Steel

4. Crusade Against Humanity

5. Overdrive of Brutality

6. Dragonsteel

7. Blood for Balgeroth

8. Setekh Drakorgaur

9. Blood Demands Blood

10. Drakespawn
 

BLUTGOTT LIVE
www.blutfest.de

20.09.2024 Passau – Zauberberg

21.09.2024 Aalen – Rock It

04.10.2024 Oberhausen – Helvete

05.10.2024 Rostock – Zuckerfabrik

01.11.2024 Weinheim – Cafe Central

02.11.2024 Kirchheim (Teck) – Linde – Heimspiel

06.12.2024 Lenzburg – Met-Bar (CH)

07.12.2024 Lindau – Club Vaudeville

12.12.2024 Wien – Viper Room (AT)

13.12.2024 Graz – Explosiv (AT)

31.01.2025 Hannover – Cafe Glocksee

01.02.2025 Hamburg – Logo

15.02.2025 Berlin – Slaughterhouse

08.03.2025 Selb – Rockclub Nordbayern

28.03.2025 Cham – LA
 

BLUTGOTT DISCOGRAPHY

2003 Kill Maim Burn (Debauchery)

2004 Rage of the Bloodbeast (Debauchery)

2005 Torture Pit (Debauchery)

2007 Back in Blood (Debauchery)

2008 Continue to Kill (Debauchery)

2009 Rockers & War (Debauchery)

2010 Hotter than Hell (Big Ball, now called Blood God)

2011 Germany’s next Death Metal (Debauchery)

2012 No Brain But Balls (Blood God / Debauchery)

2013 Kings of Carnage (Debauchery)

2014 Blood is my Trademark (Blood God / Debauchery)

2015 Fuck Humanity/Menschenhass/German Warmachine (Debauchery / Balgeroth / Blood God)

2016 Thunderbeast (Blood God / Debauchery)

2017 Rock’n’Roll Warmachine (Blood God)

2018 In der Hölle spricht man Deutsch / Enemy of Mankind (Balgeroth / Debauchery)

2018 Götter der Vernichtung (Balgeroth)

2019 Blood for the Blood God (Debauchery)

2021 Monster Metal/Böse bis ins Blut/Metal to the Bone (Debauchery/ Balgeroth / Blood God)

2022 Demons of Rock’n’Roll (Blood God / Debauchery)

2023 Respawned in Heavy Metal/Enemy of Mankind/Der Blutgott nagelt dich ans Kreuz(Blood God / Debauchery / Balgeroth)

2024 Dragongods/The Horror of the Forest/Drachenkult (Debauchery / Blood God / Balgeroth)

2024 Dracul Drakorgoth (Debauchery / Balgeroth / Blood God)

BLUTGOTT LINKS
www.blutgott.com
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DEATHLESS VOID stream new IRON BONEHEAD album

Today, Dutch black metallers Deathless Void stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, The Voluptuous Fire of Sin. Set for international release on September 20th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Deathless Void‘s The Voluptuous Fire of Sin in its entirety here:

Hailing from the resurgent Dutch black metal scene, the then-mysterious Deathless Void made their public debut with a self-titled EP in early 2022, released by Iron Bonehead. Across its three-song / 15-minute runtime was a vacuum of violent, post-modern death energy. Their foundation was undoubtedly black metal, but their vision was not blinkered by the past; if anything, the jet-stream of crushing chaos across Deathless Void was futuristic, albeit a ruined vision of such. 

Reprising two of those EP tracks, The Voluptuous Fire of Sin becomes the penultimate first statement from Deathless Void. Much of that foundation is fortunately still in place – palpitating physicality mutated into cold, cutting, gleaming-yet-bloodstained steel – but the now-quartet have excised some of the noisier crags of that EP in favor of a more organic soundfield, which exceptionally amplifies the latent nightsky melodicism of their black metal. In terms of that EP, one could point to later Katharsis or Antaeus or especially turn-of-the-millennium Thorns as touchstones; on The Voluptuous Fire of Sin, there’s a palpably late ’90s feel in both songwriting and production, such that one could psychically slot the album among the No Fashion Records roster back then. Still, said EP whipped forth its own dread and delirium, and Deathless Void duly maximize that sensation here. The riffs and rhythms may attack in a somewhat-familiar manner, but coursing through their bloodstream is a haunting aspect that hovers both above and below, each texture daubed in nightmarishly psychedelic color – all emanating from BLACK. Not for nothing does the record (violently) begin with “Psychedelic Warfare” on to “Purple Triad,” with “The Ecstasy of Sin” able to be tasted when “Crossing the Threshold” until, finally, there’s a “Curse Upon You”… 

The start of THE END begins again: Deathless Void‘s The Voluptuous Fire of Sin!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Deathless Void’s The Voluptuous Fire of Sin
1. Psychedelic Warfare
2. Vortex Climax
3. The Shattered Realms Of Man Become The Abyss
4. The Ecstasy Of Sin
5. Iside
6. Burning Shapes Without Form
7. Crossing The Threshold
8. Purple Triad
9. Curse Upon You

MORE INFO:
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HYVER stream new ANTIQ EP – features members of VÉHÉMENCE, GRYLLE, HANTERNOZ, PASSÉISME+++

Today, French black metallers Hyver stream the entirety of their highly anticipated new EP,  Fonds de Terroir. Set for international release today via Antiq, hear Hyver‘s Fonds de Terroir in its entirety here:

Hyver comes back this autumn with a new EP called Fonds de Terroir. After Sorcier Hibou (dungeon synth – 2023) and Noirceur Mystique d’Autrefois (sympho / dungeoned black metal – early 2024), Fonds de Terroir brings us to the deep countryside of France. Melodious synth meets energic riffs, heavily supported by a creative bass-guitar played by KK (Passéisme) and groovy drums by Summun Algor (Agnus Dei). Hyver‘s rough voice is joined by strong choirs and two guests: Sans Visage (Prieuré) and M (Krasseville). With cover artwork by Joanna Maeyens (Paysage d’Hiver, Ruynn), Fond de Terroir tells us about journeys through France between muddy fields, old stone villages, ancient abbeys, and haunted swamps, in a musical spirit close to Horn, Satanic Warmaster, early Finntroll, and Hanternoz. The focus here is the link between black metal spirit and road-trip adventures – being “en route” to the unknown.

Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.

Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hyver’s Fonds de Terroir
1. Lanterne des Morts [4:11]
2. La Vieille près du Lavoir [6:39]
3. Frère Jean-Théophane [4:18]
4. Terroir Terreur [4:47]

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GRYLLE set release date for new ANTIQ album, reveal first track – features members of VÉHÉMENCE, HANTERNOZ, PASSÉISME, HYVER+++

On November 10th internationally, Antiq is proud to present Grylle‘s highly anticipated second album, Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards.

Grylle is a band formed in 2013 in France. As soon as the first songs were published on the mesmerizing demo Monstres et Merveilles in 2014, the band claimed a radical style: medieval music (flutes, lute, medieval drums) with black metal vocals. 

No use of synthesizers nor samples, neither any guitar: modern instruments are all banned. The lyrical theme of Grylle finds inspiration in the current social and political situation to write chronicles of our time through a medieval approach and a satirical point of view.

Following the demo came an album literally making the consensus: Les Grandes Compagnies in 2019. Black metal howled in French, played on lute and drummed with a metal drumkit. After a couple of years working with talented musicians and traditional artists, Grylle finally reveals its long-awaited new album: Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards. 

Here on Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards, we talk about plague, diseases, and strange afflictions: themes that still nowadays sow panic through their constant walk of death, depicted through the medieval point of view that made Grylle one of a kind. Expect nothing less than black metal as it would have been made in the Middle Ages after the Great Plague fear: brutal, inventive, and without compromise. Nevertheless, elegance and majesty shine on this album, as depicted by the beautiful illumination of the cover created by the medievalist painter Miho Kuroyanagi. The musicians and guests take medieval black metal to the highest level of authenticity and creativity.

Musically, the base is that of a power-trio: fast and bizarre lute melodies by Hyver (Véhémence, Hanternoz), swinging and inventive bass with a ’70s prog approach by KK (Passéisme, Paroxysm Unit), and flamboyant and luxurious drums led by Cadavre (Cantique Lépreux, Mêlée des Aurores, Forteresse live). Above it, some strange and uncommon instruments are psalterions, flutes and pipes, Sarrazin guitar (or citole), and brass sections. And then, harsh vocals as you know Grylle‘s Hyver and La Griesche are capable of, enhanced by rare-but-angelic choirs.

Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.

 In the meantime, hear the brand-new tracks “Grande Marche des Covidards” and “Mauvais Sang” here:

Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Grylle’s Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacorhymes, Covidards
1. Grande Marche des Covidards
2. Mauvais Sang [3:27]
3. Moribon Flétri d’Orgueil [4:59]
4. Réservement de Confortale Présence [7:00]
5. Le Tropique du Cancer [3:58]
6.  Queresle des Diables sur la Savance du Mort [7:16]
7. Le Triomphe de la Mort [6:16]

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www.antiqofficial.bandcamp.com 

CHAOS INVOCATION set release date for new AOP RECORDS album, reveal first track

Today, AOP Records announces November 8th as the international release date for Chaos Invocation‘s highly anticipated fifth album, Wherever We Roam….

The journey of Chaos Invocation started in the fourth year of this millennium. Ever since the beginning, it has been the intention to manifest the members’ beliefs and experiences in Satanic music. As a trident lineup, Chaos Invocation released three full-length records: In Bloodline With The Snake (2009), Black Mirror Hours (2013), and Reaping Season, Bloodshed Beyond (2018). Shortly before the release of the latter, Omega (drums) and Tumulash (bass guitar) joined the founding members A. (guitars) and M. (vocals) and enriched the band with another spearhead. As a four-piece, Chaos Invocation recorded Devil, Stone & Man (2022): a wild, fierce, and challenging ride into the more sepulchral and dangerous realms of the black metal genre and a sonic monument of Satanic worship and sheer metallic fury. Devil, Stone & Man also marked the first collaboration with V. Santura at Woodshed Studio, with whom they also recorded their latest output.

Titled Wherever We Roam…, Chaos Invocation‘s fifth full-length looks to the past to see the trails to blaze ahead. Where Devil, Stone & Man maintained an incredibly direct aspect – arguably, the German’s most straightforwardly aggressive material to date, all grime and gnarl suiting the dark times in which it was birthed – Wherever We Roam… sees Chaos Invocation bringing back their burning-black melodicism, which heightens the authentically second-wave vibes intrinsic to their enduring aesthetic. Still serpentine and sinuous, their songwriting has continued to focus on expressions of a direct nature rather than busy themselves with overbearing complexity. Put another way, the quintet have focused on the more dynamic currents of Reaping Season, Bloodshed Beyond and simply sharpened them to a judicious degree, all given nightsky flight through the crisp & clean production – wholly organic, wholly powerful – as well as the oft-soaring leads.

As such, Wherever We Roam… feels anthemic, boundless, and wholly tailor-made for the stage, where Chaos Invocation have considerable experience; since their first live appearance in 2009, they’ve embarked upon several European tours as well as playing several smaller tours and festivals all over the European continent. “Our journey is far from being over,” state the band, and “we cannot wait to raise our banners at places we have yet not visited.” If there’s a record to slay that way forward, then surely it’s Wherever We Roam…

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Ideal Sodom” here:

Cover artwork, courtesy of Khaos Diktator, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Chaos Invocation’s Wherever We Roam…
1. Wherever We Roam
2. Ideal Sodom
3. Golden Gates And Terrene Light
4. Bridges Aflame
5. No Throne Withstands
6. This World Wants Us Dead
7. Only In Darkness
8. Engravings Of The Quivering Pedestal

Lineup
A. – lead guitar, vocals*
M. – vocals
LS – rhythm guitars
RK – bass guitar
Omega – drums

*lead vocals on “Ideal Sodom” and “Bridges Aflame,” all clean vocals

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/chaosinvocation 

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Sweden’s SEID set release date for new DE TENEBRUM PRINCIPIO album, reveal first track – features members of CRAFT+++

On October 18th internationally, De Tenebrarum Principio – a division of ATMF – is proud to present the highly anticipated fifth album of Sweden’s Seid, Hymns to the Norse.

Hymns to the Norse – the new album from Seid, active since 2009 and purveyors of proud pagan black metal in the ancient tradition – takes great inspiration from the old folk music of the Scandinavian region. In many ways, this album is more of a concept album than 2022’s preceding Svart Sól was. The sejd drum intro “Hymn To Ivar” opens it up in an even-more-traditional fashion, but then you get brass sections and the sound develops more and more throughout the album towards something more recognizably black metal. “Hymn to the North” closes the album, referring to the fact that all the songs you just heard were hymns: previously untold but, in our common ancestry, deeply buried.

With Seid‘s raw, lo-fi sound, eerie vocals, sejd drum, Hammond organs, and haunting atmospheres, this album pushes the boundaries of black metal while exploring the Norse roots. Hymns to the Norse takes you to the past…and brings the past into you.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “My Kingdom Rise” here:

North American preorder info can be found HERE; European preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Frank Dicksee (1873), and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Seid (Sweden)’s Hymns to the Norse
1. Hymn To Ivar
2. The End Of Days
3. My Kingdom Rise
4. White Beast From Hel
5. Nordmænnens Raseri
6. Light Up The Sky
7. Allfadir
8. Hymns To The North

Lineup
Seiðr – vocals, organ, guitars 
Osgilliath – bass 
Pär Johansson – drums (also in Craft) 
Herjann – guitars 
Reynir – guitars

MORE INFO:
www.norseblackmetal.com 


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Japan’s IMMORTAL DEATH stream WEREWOLF debut demo – features members of SEX MESSIAH+++

On September 13th internationally, Werewolf Records will release the debut demo of Japan’s Immortal Death, self-titled Immortal Death, on CD and cassette tape formats. And today, they stream the demo in its entirety. Hear Immortal Death‘s Immortal Death in its entirety here:

Emitting the sick stench of the ancients, Immortal Death play savage, Satanic DEATH METAL as if the last couple decades of “death metal” didn’t exist. A mysterious entity, it is known that at least one member hails from the esteemed Sex Messiah, but that is where the parallels end: one listen to Immortal Death‘s eponymous debut demo is enough to convince the diehard – or offend those of delicate sensibilities. Howling and harrowing and hulking in its ragged, rabid physicality, Immortal Death mangles both mind and body with its sulfurous rehearsal-room intensity, skillfully moving between primitive blasting and ominous trudge, with UNGODLY riffs being bullet-belted out right and left. And after a mere 14 minutes, you’re left with absolute devastation.

So impressed by its sheer audacity and merciless battery, Werewolf steps forward to release Immortal Death on a worldwide scale, on all formats. Maniacs of Necrovore, the pre-Deicide Amon, America’s Infester, Pissgrave, or the late / great Deathchurch, prepare for reckoning with Immortal Death.

Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Immortal Death (Japan)’s Immortal Death
1. Intro
2. Impaled by Horn
3. Stigmatized
4. Romance Of Corpse
5. Death of the Immortality
6. Outro

MORE INFO:
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1349 Release Third Single “Inferior Pathways”

Prepare yourselves, mortals––as 1349 unleashes Inferior Pathways, the latest onslaught from their forthcoming album, The Wolf and The King. This infernal hymn channels the quintessence of 1349: unrelenting, blast-heavy, and furious. Inferior Pathways is a seething maelstrom of chaos and carnage, and it’s the perfect example of why 1349 are the ultimate masters of black metal.

Wreak havoc with the virulent guitars and manifold blasts of this third single that ties an iron spine of classic headbanging riffs to an inexorable groove – a flawless execution of raw, blackened power. 1349 continues to stretch the boundaries of the genre, infusing their relentless blast beats and searing guitars with an atmosphere of apocalyptic elegance.

Recorded at Amper Tone in Oslo, Norway, and New Constellation R.M.P. in Orlando, Florida, The Wolf and The King was produced and mixed by Ravn and Jarrett Pritchard (Eulogy, Pulchra Morte). The album promises a tempestuous journey through eight tracks of pure, unadulterated black metal, from the voracious onslaught of the previously release single The God Devourer to the sinister depths of Shadow Point.
The Wolf and The King is out October 4th on Season of Mist.

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Tracklist
1. The God Devourer (5:10) [WATCH]
2. Ash of Ages (5:27) [LISTEN]
3. Shadow Point (3:40) [WATCH]
4. Inferior Pathways (4:28) [LISTEN]
5. Inner Portal (5:08)
6. The Vessel and The Storm (5:15)
7. Obscura (3:44)
8. Fatalist (5:51)
Total runtime: 39:01

1349 is not like other bands. It’s not a group of friends who decided to make music together. 1349 is a band formed with a unified vision and specific purpose: To maintain the legacy of black metal.

“I didn’t like the direction that black metal took in the mid part of the ’90s,” 1349 vocalist and mastermind Ravn recalls. “It started losing everything that I liked about black metal—the grimness, the eeriness, the primal emotions that captivated me and brought me into that sphere. You had all these synthesizer-based bands dressing up in pirate shirts and looking like goths. It ruined something that I truly hold close to my heart.”

In 1997, Ravn formed 1349 and recruited bassist Seidemann and, now former, guitarist Tjalve to help him pursue the vision of recapturing the original spirit of black metal. The longstanding lineup of Ravn, Seidemann, guitarist Archaon, and drummer Frost (also of Satyricon) has been in place since 2001. “I found people that felt the same way as me,” Ravn says of his bandmates. “We wanted to bring back the trademark of Norwegian black metal, as it was presented in the early 90s. Every time we release an album, that’s the inspiration and the backdrop.”

The Wolf and the King is the latest sortie in that crusade.1349’s eighth album sees the Oslo-based band harnessing the primordial energy of black metal’s decade-defining second wave and channeling it through ancient mysteries and the relentless global chaos of the 2020s.

The album title comes from a classic alchemical allegory: A wolf devours a king. Then the wolf is devoured by flames, and a new king rises from the ashes. “When I first heard about alchemy when I was young, it was people turning metal into gold,” Ravn says. “Further down the road, through various literatures and magical practices, I realized that what you’re turning into gold is metaphorical. It’s about personal development, basically. You want to be the best you can be, and that’s what we try to do as well. We try to top ourselves, to kill our egos in order to grow as persons. If you don’t do that, you will die. You will not rise from the ashes.”

Lead single “Ash of Ages” combines thrash with extreme metal flourishes and a proper doomsday theme. “The song is based on a story I read about a layer of ash that covered the Earth 12,000 years ago,” Ravn explains. “This layer of ash comes from a meteorite that struck the Earth during the Ice Age. It melted a lot of the ice, which is where the Great Flood came from. The Great Flood is in the Bible, but it was written about in every ancient culture. The theory is that it washed away a lot of other ancient cultures that held a higher intelligence level than those that were found after the flood. So, it possibly set human civilization back many thousands of years.”

Released as a one-sided maxi-12” with a flipside etching by Jordan Barlow—who did all the artwork for The Wolf and the King (as well as the band’s 2019 album, The Infernal Pathway)—“Ash of Ages” is also a warning to check your ego. “To think that you’re important, that you’re anything but an ant down there, is futile,” Ravn points out. “In the end, everything will be washed away, and nothing will be left.”

“Shadow Point” comes complete with a video and revisits the sonic domain of The Infernal Pathway with a classic headbanger groove. “This one references the Star of Algol, or ‘the Demon Star,’” Ravn offers. “It’s actually two stars that revolve around each other, and the small one is devouring the big one. Human beings have seen this star from early ages, and it has had many names over the years. It’s a known part of the magical world, so I wanted to include it in a song.”

Shot through with menace and a snaky groove, album opener “The God Devourer” will also have a video. “The lyrics are based on the alchemical principle of devouring all that you feel is in your way of becoming a better human,” Ravn says. “It sets the ominous tone for the whole album.”

Recorded at Amper Tone in Oslo, Norway, and New Constellation R.M.P. in Orlando, Florida, The Wolf and the King was produced and mixed by Ravn and Jarrett Pritchard (Eulogy, Pulchra Morte), the band’s long-standing sonic wizard who also worked on their previous two albums. The lyrics were written by the band’s longtime wordsmith, Svartalv, who has been working with 1349 for twenty years.

Jordan Barlow’s elaborate artwork for The Wolf and the King reflects the album’s chronological position in 1349’s discography. “This is our eighth album, and the artwork and lyrics are filled with references to this number of infinity,” Ravn explains. “You can basically go on a quest finding references to the number in the artwork.”

All told, The Wolf and the King is the exalted output of the joint force that is 1349. “We all work together to make the best black metal possible every time we release an album,” Ravn says. “This is our common goal. We’re a band on a mission.”
Line-up
Archaon – Guitars
Frost – Drums
Ravn – Vocals
Seidemann – Bass

Recording Studio
Amper Tone (Oslo, Norway) & NEW CONSTELLATION R.M.P. (Orlando, USA)

Production Credits
Produced by Jarrett Prichard & Ravn
Mixed by Jaerrett Prichard & Ravn at NEW CONSTELLATION R.M.P.
Mastered by Jaerrett Prichard at NEW CONSTELLATION R.M.P.

Biography
J. Bennett

Cover Art
Jordan Barlow

Pre-order & Pre-save:https://orcd.co/1349thewolfandtheking

Links/Follow Artist:
Official Website: http://www.legion1349.com/
Bandcamp: http://1349som.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1349official
Instagram: http://instagram.com/1349official
Twitter: http://twitter.com/1349official
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/1349auralhellfire
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/150xbiJGnTy1tSBZ9EFKnT
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/artist/10673
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1349/79664050
TIDAL: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/22185
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/1349/e/B001LHI2SI/

Available Formats:
Digital Download
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SHAARIMOTH set release date for new W.T.C. album, reveal first track

On October 31st internationally, W.T.C.Productions is proud to present Shaarimoth‘s highly anticipated third album, Devildom, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2004 but tracing its origins back to 1998, Shaarimoth emerged from the then-barren Norwegian death metal underground, and along with it, so did new incantations of darkness, death, and destruction. Both dark and ecstatic, furious and violent, defying genres, but at the same time paying tribute to its predecessors of the black arts, Shaarimoth‘s goals were firm from the very beginning.

To date, Shaarimoth have released two albums, a full 12 years apart: 2005’s Current 11 and 2017’s Temple of the Adversarial Fire. Indeed not ones to rush things, the Norwegians maximize “delayed gratification” and embrace bold & brazen reinvention. Such was the case for the universally celebrated Temple of the Adversarial Fire, which saw Shaarimoth evoking the album’s namesake: a wholesale stripping-down their aesthetic to its barest essentials, only to be rebuilt into an incendiary, black-smoke-billowing monolith of blackened death metal majesty. Rarely in the nowadays metal underground will one hear a death metal record this pure and reverential in its intent whilst being so suffused with the blackest of blood…that is, until the arrival of Devildom.

Almost elegantly simple in its title, Devildom nevertheless reveals the fullest depth(s) of Shaarimoth‘s ever-entrancing vision. The template remains unyielding and limitless – technical Morbid Angel-esque death metal given unique twists in texture, ambience, and authentically occult lyrical content – but the execution of such is taken, impossibly, up to yet another level. Devildom delves into themes of darkness, death, rebellion, and the acosmic forces of the infernal, guiding the listener on a journey through the boundless abyss, beyond the illusions of creation. It reveals a path to transcendence, returning to the true darkness from which all things arise and to which they will eventually return. Grounded in esoteric philosophies and dark spiritual doctrines, the music acts as a conduit to an otherworldly domain where reality’s limitations are cast aside to embrace the forbidden light of the dark gods. More than just a collection of songs, Devildom offers a ritualistic experience meant to invoke the Devil’s presence and power, immersing the listener in a realm of liberating madness. This journey celebrates the sinister and the spiritual, inviting exploration of the shadow self and crossing the boundaries between the mundane and the mystical to confront the darker aspects of existence.

Thankfully, a dozen years were not necessary for Shaarimoth to continue the glorious new epoch they ushered in with Temple of the Adversarial Fire. Patiently and painstakingly crafted all the same, Devildom soundly cements Shaarimoth‘s status as the Devil’s Death Metal ELITE.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “The Midnight Sentinel” here:

Cover artwork, courtesy of Vamperess Imperium, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Shaarimoth’s Devildom
1. Call To Prayer
2. The Midnight Sentinel
3. Blood Covenant
4. Into Everlasting Darkness
5. The Voiceless Call
6. Apotheosis
7. Blade Of Malediction
8. The Impulse Of Rebellion
9. When Blood Becomes Fire
10. For His Eyes Of Judgement Are Forever Upon You

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TOUR D’IVOIRE stream ANTIQ debut – features members of VÉHÉMENCE, GRYLLE, CERCLE DU CHÊNE, HANTERNOZ+++

Today, French black metallers Tour d’Ivoire stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, self-titled Tour d’Ivoire. Set for international release today via Antiq, hear Tour d’Ivoire‘s Tour d’Ivoire in its entirety here:

Tour d’Ivoire is an atmospheric black metal project created by Hyver (Véhémence, Grylle, Hanternoz) and La Griesche (Grylle, Cercle du Chêne) in early 2023. The atmosphere of this first eponymous album is thick and mysterious as a twilight fog: extreme vocals emerging from hypnotical riffs, synthesizer melody, and spectral choirs. The French lyrics treat, with a fatalistic view, the contemplation of landscapes and architectures out of mystical dreams, as depicted by Sperber Illustrationen for the album’s cover art.

Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.

Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Tour d’Ivoire’s Tour d’Ivoire
1. La Tour [8:34]
2. Brouillard [9:09]
3. Forteresse de Marbre [7:54]
4. Givre [7:44]

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