Satanic Warmaster

SATANIC WARMASTER set release date for new WEREWOLF album

Today, Werewolf Records announces December 30th as the international release date for Satanic Warmaster‘s long-awaited sixth album, Aamongandr, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow next year.

Satanic Warmaster needs no introduction. Since the band’s formation in 1998, founder Werwolf has prolifically – and provocatively – stoked fires that refuse to be quenched. A totally independent artist in all aspects, Satanic Warmaster has sold hundreds of thousands of albums internationally and played stages all across the world, from north to south and east to west. The band’s black metal is devoutly traditional but eternally fruitful, standing as an immovable monument to the purest and proudest foundations of the artform. As such, Satanic Warmaster is hated and loved with equally strong passion, with those naysayers only feeding that fire with falsehoods and gross misconceptions. There is no middle ground: no apologies, and no surrender.

And so the battle continues with Aamongandr, Satanic Warmaster‘s first studio full-length since 2014’s acclaimed Fimbulwinter. Indeed, where that album evinced a diversity of songcraft and, more so, a concertedly polished aspect that majestically made that obsidian gleam, Aamongandr explores that duality with equally compelling results. In fact, with the album wasting no time in kicking into high gear, Satanic Warmaster sounds more urgent than ever – and yet, here is where the band’s epic side is also revealed in full. Cryogenic and caressing is its melodicism, in the glare of burning churches, and deftly dusted with subtle synths that heighten the mysticism at the heart of the SW sound, Aamongandr‘s six songs charge forth with the grim grandiosity of mighty steeds; not for nothing is one of the album’s highlights titled “Duke’s Ride (Ride of the Spectral Hooves).” All told, this sixth long-form statement of intent is immediately recognizable as Satanic Warmaster but irrevocably proves that its creator’s imagination continues to flow as infinitely as the Atlantean depths.

In the meantime, hear the previously released single “Bafomet” here:

Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of the legendary (and late) Ken Kelly, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Satanic Warmaster’s Aamongandr
1. Bafomet [5:28]
2. Duke’s Ride (Ride of the Spectral Hooves) [6:29]
3. Berserk Death [5:09]
4. The Eye of Satan [5:00]
5. Darkness… Triumphator [6:58]
6. Barbas X Aamon [7:49]

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THE TRUE WERWOLF sets release date for long-awaited WEREWOLF debut album, reveals first track

Today, Werewolf Records sets February 28th as the international release date for The True Werwolf‘s long-awaited debut album, Devil Crisis, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
  The True Werwolf is a study in true patience and perseverance. The band was begun in 2002 as a solo endeavor by extremely prolific black metal scene legend Graf Werwolf, largely known for Satanic Warmaster and as the original vocalist of Horna. Work on The True Werwolf was undertaken in secrecy, and scarce demos and EPs would trickle out in the underground, sometimes posthumously. Each step of the way, however, a commitment to raw ‘n’ rotten black metal was firm and unyielding, brewed in the ancient ways of the early ’90s. And although comparisons to Satanic Warmaster are understandable and locatable, The True Werwolf largely resides in a different headspace for mainman Werwolf, where medieval witchcraft, vampirism, and mysticism run riot, and the sound suitably existed on an axis of hideousness.
  That is, until now, with the sleek ‘n’ sumptuous Devil Crisis. In the works for over six years, Devil Crisis is the grand culmination of every residual aesthetic strain in The True Werwolf canon hereby taken their most professional and finessed ends. Informed by lyrical themes that are extremely emotional and erotic – and, in the case of “0373,” even cosmic – Devil Crisis boldly displays a pronounced sense of refinement that doesn’t sacrifice or stultify an ounce of Werwolf’s icy yet burning-hot passion; if anything, this refinement begins a new era for The True Werwolf.  Necromantical black metal art at its heart, this tour de force of madness & majesty explodes with an almost overwhelming sense of clarity, stargazing and screaming for vengeance, but within lurks heretofore-revealed elements – foremost among them, classic video game music – that only serve to make The True Werwolf a more unique and idiosyncratic entity. Likewise, the subtle-but-unabashed usage of keyboards here lends a most bewitching and magickal sound, wholly transporting the listener to forgotten realms and further underlining Werwolf’s roots in the glare of burning churches.
  Put another way, if Satanic Warmaster is like Black Sabbath, then The True Werwolf is like Ozzy solo. If you’re prepared to bark at the moon, prepare for the blizzard of Devil Crisis!

Begin barking at the moon with the brand-new track “Spellbound” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for The True Werwolf’s Devil Crisis
1. My Journeys Under the Battlemoon
2. Thy Deviant
3. Spellbound
4. Chi No Namid
5. 0373
6. The Witch of My Heart
7. Magick Fire
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