Exhorder announce new album ‘Mourn The Southern Skies’
EXHORDER have announced a new album!
Titled Mourn The Southern Skies, the upcoming album from the NOLA thrashers is their first album in 27 years and is scheduled to be released in September this year.
The upcoming album was recorded with Duane Simoneaux at OCD Recording and working with producer Jens Bogren (AMON AMARTH, OPETH, SEPULTURA) at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden for mixing/mastering, armed with more fury and vigor than bands half their age, EXHORDER has concocted an intoxicating amalgam of old school thrashers and groovers blended with a modern, mature approach.
Founding guitarist Vinnie La Bella says of their resurgence, “you can plot and scheme for years, even decades (as is in our case). You can work hard, keep grinding, bang the square peg in the round hole until it looks somewhat presentable. But sometimes you just need to let time tell you, it’s time. EXHORDER has its own soul. And it pokes me in the ribs ever so often as if to remind me, ‘Hey asshole, we ain’t done yet!’ Kyle and myself had a dream as teenagers. And as cliché as it may seem, we never woke up from it. EXHORDER has always crept in and out of our lives. So no magic bullet or formula here. It was only a simple matter of time before the right guys, the right songs, the right manager/label would finally come to the party. It’s been damn near 35 years since we first uttered the name, EXHORDER. 27 years since our last record, and a whole lot of breaking up and making up in between. So why is this time different? Why start again at 50 years of age instead of retiring? Simple… because it’s finally, TIME!”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song to be taken from the upcoming album; My Time.
Watch the official music video for My Time here:
Also, you can view the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:
Track List:
- My Time
- Asunder
- Hallowed Sounds
- Beware the Wolf
- Yesterday’s Bones
- All She Wrote
- Rumination
- The Arms of Man
- Ripping Flesh
- Morn the Southern Skies
And that’s not all EXHORDER news! The band will also support the new record with their first ever UK/IRE tour dates in October! Speaking about the tour, vocalist Kyle Thomas says, “the upcoming run in October that EXHORDER will make in support of our first new album in twenty seven years is special for several reasons. Of course, it will be great to return to the wonderful community of Essen, Germany for a show at Turock. However, there are some milestones for EXHORDER that must be acknowledged; although over the years my travels with FLOODGATE, ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY, and TROUBLE have taken me across the United Kingdom, EXHORDER has never been to the UK before the one show we did in 2018 at Bloodstock. This year we will do two stops in England, hitting Manchester as well as London. We will also travel north to Scotland, performing for the first time ever in Glasgow as well. For me personally though, the true bucket list item on this trip will be not only EXHORDER‘s first trip to Ireland, but mine as well. As the grandson of a full blooded son of Irish immigrants, this half-Thomas half-Harrigan is immensely looking forward to setting foot for the first time on soil rich in history that I know little to nothing about, regarding my ancestry. Our one show in Dublin will make it a brief stop, but rest assured it won’t be our last! Everybody get a good night’s sleep and take your vitamins, because EXHORDER is bringing the energy your way in October!!!”
Tour dates are as follows:
04 Oct – DE Essen, Turock
05 Oct – DE Lichtenfels, Way Of Darkness Festival
07 Oct – UK London, The Underworld
08 Oct – UK Manchester, Rebellion
09 Oct – UK Glasgow, Slay
10 Oct – IE Dublin, Voodoo Lounge
Mourn The Southern Skies is set for release on September 20th via Nuclear Blast Records.
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