Exmortus announce new album ‘Necrophony’
EXMORTUS have announced a new album!
Titled Necrophony, the upcoming album from the American melodic death metal band is the follow-up to 2018’s The Sound Of Steel, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.
For the upcoming album, EXMORTUS invited Zack Ohren [FALLUJAH, IMMOLATION] to return as engineer, producer, mixer and mastering ace on Necrophony. With Ohren at the helm, the band holed up in Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA. Necrophony was fast-tracked in just under two weeks.
Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist Jadran ‘Conan’ Gonzalez says, “Necrophony was an album title idea for as long as I can remember. This symphony of the dead couldn’t be realized for a collection of songs until now. Finally, we have our darkest and most classically inspired work yet, with artwork by the great Toha Mashudi to match perfectly. We returned to Sharkbite Studios to have the mighty wizard that is Zack Ohren aid us again in forging our metal, and resulted in the finest steel we’re all proud to wield on the battlefield.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Mind Of Metal. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album; following on from Oathbreaker, which was released in August last year.
Speaking about the new single, Conan says, “Mind Of Metal is a great compliment to our previous single Oathbreaker, in that it has contrasting rhythms and structure, but shares lyrical inspiration by Tolkien. It’s a tribute to the wizard Saruman and other like characters in the legendarium, for their will to power and domination by crafty and industrial means. This song features groove, fast licks, and some of our favorite riffs ever written. Can’t wait to perform it live!”
Watch the official music video for Mind Of Metal here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Masquerade
2. Mask Of Red Death
3. Oathbreaker
4. Mind Of Metal
5. Storm Of Strings
6. Test of Time
7. Darkest Of Knights
8. Prophecy
9. Children Of The Night
10. Beyond The Grave
11. Overture
12. Necrophony
13. Moonchild
Necrophony is set for release on August 25th via Nuclear Blast Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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