Kaoteon announce new self-titled album
KAOTEON have announced a new album!
The upcoming album, a self-titled effort, follows last year’s Damnatio Memoriae and is scheduled to be released in January next year.
Having both fully relocated to the Netherlands, guitarist Anthony Kaoteon and vocalist Walid WolfLust teamed up with bassist Linus Klausenitzer of OBSCURA and drummer Adrian Erlandsson of AT THE GATES for the next chapter of the band. Their upcoming album is the band’s heaviest, darkest and most esoteric work to date.
On the new record Anthony Kaoteon took a different approach to writing. He explains, “on previous albums, every KAOTEON track had over 10 main riffs that could be extended into a song each. With the self-titled upcoming album, the riffs have an identity of their own. Every riff on this album was composed during a state of flow and there are no fillers. I just didn’t want to compose riffs that fit between other riffs. I recorded whole tracks as they came to my mind after several hours of meditation.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have release the first song from the upcoming record; titled Wolves of Chaos. The new song was first premiered via Metal Injection.
Watch the official lyric video for Wolves of Chaos here:
The state of the world today and the band’s relocation to the Netherlands have played a big part in inspiring the themes on the album. The band says, “the themes are about borders, physical, political and mental. They are about pushing forward against all weights, about looking for home, guided by a beacon in the dark, keeping one eye on your destination and another at the shadows of the mind as well as the shadows of power creeping over our world. These themes evolved from fresh out of the Middle East and rediscovering the notion of home and in the hope of settling someday.”
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:
Track List:
1. Wolves of Chaos
2. Sun of the East
3. Broken
4. Memento Mori
5. Catharsis in Unison
6. Gardens of Midas
7. Acheronta Movebo
Kaoteon is set for release on January 17th via self-release.
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