GosT announce new album ‘Prophecy’

GOST have announced a new album!

Titled Prophecy, the upcoming album from the American darksynth outfit is the follow-up to 2021’s Rites Of Love And Reverence, and is scheduled to be released in March next year, via Metal Blade Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, band mastermind James Lollar says, “it’s about an imaginative fall of the Western civilization, the biblical end of the world – the rise of Satan and Armageddon. In America, there’s been a big rise of scared, reactive Christianity again, and almost like a re-emergence of the Satanic Panic. So it felt like an appropriate time to bring Satan back into things.”

Recorded alone in Texas during a burst of creativity at the end of 2022, Prophecy is the perfect vessel for such things. Following the experimentation and more melodic touches of 2019’s Valediction, Lollar says it also acts as something of a return to older roots, to recapture the spirit of GOST. “When Valediction came out, COVID hit, and I guess people weren‘t so into art while the world was on its knees. I also wanted to reconnect with some of my older fans who maybe didn‘t feel that album so much. I wanted to go back in time and bring some of the older shit back, some of the older sounds.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; the title track Prophecy and the intro track Judgment.

Speaking about the new song, Lollar says, “with Prophecy, I wanted to revisit some of the sounds of Possessor. Rather than simply replicate those sounds I expanded upon them. I pushed the saturation and compression to their literal limits, resulting in some of the heaviest sounds I have yet to produce. I wanted to combine some classic EBM elements with my digital metal sound as well. This EBM influence can be heard throughout Prophecy. Horror has been a huge aspect of my sound since day one and that theme is ever present on Prophecy, through ratcheting strings and dreadful choir lines. Prophecy expounds on the slasherwave genre I originally created with Behemoth.”

Watch the official music video for Judgment / Prophecy here: 

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

Track List: 

1. Judgment
2. Prophecy
3. Death In Bloom
4. Deceiver
5. Obituary
6. Temple Of Tears
7. Decadent Decay
8. Widow Song
9. Golgotha
10. Digital Death
11. Shelter
12. Through The Water
13. Leviathan

Prophecy is set for release on March 8th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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