Abduction announce new album ‘Existentialismus’

ABDUCTION have announced a new album!

Titled Existentialismus, the upcoming album from the UK black metal band is the follow-up to 2022’s Black Blood, and is scheduled to be released in February next year, via Candlelight Records.

The upcoming album was recorded and produced by Ian Boult at Stuck On A Name Studios in Nottingham, while the final touches of post-production and mastering were handled by Tore Stjerna [WATAIN, MAYHEM, DESTRÖYER 666] at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden. The striking and immersive cover art is the work of Julia Soboleva.

“It’s inspired by the juxtaposition of this horrible post-truth era with its contradictions and the simple, metaphorical truths that began in ancient religions of the crumbling past,” vocalist A|V says. “Somewhere between a biblical gospel and a Nietzschean nightmare. As a father, there’s a particular terror in seeing all that our grandfathers built, physically and morally, being torn apart and reduced to a commodity and wondering what kind of world my son will inherit.

I am by no means a philosopher – I desperately lack the patience. But my observations of the modern Western humane race have become particularly bleak, and this informs my lyrical writing process. Art as a reaction to life and experience. This is laid out in the first track, A Legacy Of Sores, which posits that most of us here, in the current year, have become an alarming pairing of being both too sensitive and yet without any core beliefs to stand on. (‘Wet skin now paper thin, reveals a core of dust’) I think this is a mixture of a post-religious society and the acceleration of technology to the point at which its claws are deeply in us. Have you tried to live without a smartphone recently?”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, ABDUCTION have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; A Legacy Of Sores.

Speaking about the new song, A|V says, “the most obvious expansion is in the voice. I felt that vocally, I had more freedom to express the lyrics and messages with fewer genre leashes. Given the themes of pain, frustration, and fear involved, it made sense to convey that in its most natural state rather than performing to certain expectations. The vocals and lyrics are important to me, so I let them breathe and counterpoint the bands playing.”

Watch the official music video for A Legacy Of Shores here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. A Legacy Of Sores
2. Pyramidia Liberi
3. Truth Is As Sharp A Sword As Vengeance
4. Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit
5. Razors Of Occam
6. Vomiting At Baalbek

Existentialismus is set for release on February 21st via Candlelight Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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