Huntsmen announce new album ‘Mandala of Fear’

HUNTSMEN have announced a new album!

Titled Mandala of Fear, the upcoming album from the Chicago quintet is their second full-length effort and is scheduled to be released in March this year, via Prosthetic Records.

The upcoming album was recorded at Decade Studios in Chicago with Sanford Parker occupying the producer’s chair, Parker’s own love of true American storytellers such as Waylon Jennings further imbued the spirit of the tradition into every crevice of the album. Massive in scope and spanning two full LPs, the album explores themes of trauma, recovery, and, ultimately, survival, through the lens of a fully formed sci-fi-esque tale set in the near future as unending desert war crumbles into apocalypse. The story is further told through a 32-page graphic novel that accompanies the 2LP set. Having enlisted Aimee Bueno to provide vocals for the final track of previous album, American Scrap, her role has since evolved into being an equal participant in the band’s adventure.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song to be lifted from the upcoming album; titled Ride Out. The accompanying music video was animated by Seth Whitehurst of Shadow Puppet Horror Theatre.

Speaking about the new song, vocalist/guitarist Chris Kang says, “Ride Out simmers with the adrenaline and gut churning dread of the dawn of battle. As one of humanity’s final wars ravages the land, sea, and air, a young soldier feels the coming storm in her bones and wonders if, when faced with taking a life, her rifle will be an extension of her will, or a lead weight in her hand.”

Watch the official animated music video for Ride Out here: 

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

Track List: 

1. Ride Out
2. Colossus
3. Atomic Storms
4. God Will Stop Trying
5. Pirates of the Waste
6. Hill People Drugs
7. Bone Cathedral
8. A Nameless Dread
9. Awake at Time’s End
10. Loss
11. The Silver Lining
12. The Swallow
13. Clearing The Sand

Mandala of Fear is set for release on March 13th via Prosthetic Records.

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