Chthonic announce new album ‘Battlefields of Asura’

CHTHONIC have announced a new album!

The upcoming record, titled Battlefields of Asura, follows 2013’s Butik and is scheduled to be released in October this year!

The upcoming album depicts the adventure of deities in Taiwan through eleven songs carrying messages about resistance, freedom and fraternity. Randy Blythe of LAMB OF GOD and Denise Ho, iconic freedom fighter and singer from Hong Kong, have joined the band in the creation of this record.

Speaking about the upcoming record, bassist Doris Yeh says, “this album is the prologue of the albums released in the past and was inspired by and dedicated to the activists of Taiwan’s first modern political reform movement back in 1920s.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can also view the track list and artwork for the upcoming record. Both of which are available to view below:

Track List: 

01. Drawing Omnipotence Nigh
02. The Silent One’s Torch
03. Flames upon the Weeping Winds
04. A Crimson Sky’s Command
05. Souls of the Revolution
06. Taste the Black Tears
07. One Thousand Eyes
08. Masked Faith
09. Carved in Bloodstone
10. Millennia’s Faith Undone
11. Autopoiesis

Battlefields of Asura is set for release on October 10th via Spinefarm Records/Universal.

For more information on CHTHONIC like their official page on Facebook.