Hexvessel announce new album ‘Kindred’

February 21, 2020 James Weaver

HEXVESSEL have announced a new album!

Titled Kindred, the upcoming album from the band is their fifth full-length effort and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Svart Records.

Blues-laden psych-rock and progressive structures harken back to KING CRIMSON, giving way to dark earthen balladry reminiscent of early Nick Cave and the doom-laden atmospheres of DEAD CAN DANCE. The band returned to their original studio in Tampere, Finland, where they recorded No Holier Temple, which fused HEXVESSEL’s folk roots with an occult undercurrent, with the new album mastered by John Davis [THE KILLERS, GORILLAZ, LED ZEPPELIN, Lana Del Rey] in the UK. The album’s artwork was created by artists Thomas Hooper (who has worked for NEUROSIS, CONVERGE and DOOMRIDERS) and Richey Beckett (who has created work for METALLICA, FOO FIGHTERS, Robert Plant).

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song from the upcoming record; titled Billion Year Old Being. The music video was was entirely shot and edited by bassist Ville Hakonen on their recent tour of Europe, in sacred hotel rooms, holy aquariums and other ancient places of important magnetic resonance, across hundreds of kilometers of open highways and debauched evenings.

Speaking about the song, singer/song-writer Mat McNerney says, “for us there’s only one temple. Be All and End All. There’s only one religion and one spirit that takes on many forms, and that is the planet earth. This is a deep-earth rock spell, telling your reality tunnel to go fuck itself. Listen, descend, dissolve.”

Watch the official music video for Billion Year Old Being here: