Blood Red Throne announce new album ‘Imperial Congregation’

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021 James Weaver

BLOOD RED THRONE have announced a new album!

Titled Imperial Congregation, the upcoming album from the Norwegian death metal veterans is their tenth full-length record, the follow-up to 2019’s Fit To Kill, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

“This time around we’ve made something new and fresh in our sound. We felt it from the very first song that was written; this will take us to a whole different level in terms of arrangements, riffs, vocals… everything. We are super-excited to share this with our fans, and in cooperation with the greatest label ever,” shares guitarist Daniel Olaisen about the upcoming album. “We live outside this system. We don’t join in on the sheep mentality. Create your own possibilities, be responsible for your own misery or success! Many of our lyrics deal with our skepticism of religion, and of mankind in general. Be free or be dead. Two gigantic skeletons tower over the men of worship as they dictate human fate by candlelight.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming album; Itika.

Speaking about the new song, Olaisen says, “Itika was one of the first songs I wrote for this album and it’s heavy as fuck. There’s some real cool rhythm stuff going on and somewhat futuristic leads. Itika stands out on the album as a more fictional love song. Some necrophile dude, longing to get the sexy corpse, which keeps ignoring him. He wishes he was good enough, or dead enough, to get her in the end.”

Watch the official lyric video for Itika here:

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

Track List:

1. Imperial Congregation
2. Itika
3. Conquered Malevolence
4. Transparent Existence
5. Inferior Elegance
6. We All Bleed
7. 6:7
8. Consumed Illusion
9. Hero-Antics
10. Zarathustra