Psycroptic announce new album ‘Divine Council’

PSYCROPTIC have announced a new album!

Titled Divine Council, the upcoming album from the Australian death metal band is the follow-up to 2018’s As The Kingdom Drowns, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Prosthetic Records.

With writing and recording punctuated by a pandemic and subsequent strict lockdowns, the upcoming album was recorded in various locations across Australia and North America. Drums were tracked at Anubis Studios by Chris Thelemco, bass was captured by Justin Spaeth at Cave Bound Studio, and guitars, vocals and synths were recorded by the band’s own Joe Haley at his Crawlspace Studios before he mixed and mastered the albums nine tracks.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Rend Asunder. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “Rend Asunder is a little bit of a different style of track for us – stripped back and streamlined, but it still has the PSYCROPTIC sound. It’s straight to the point – fast, catchy and hard hitting from the outset. We think people will dig it from the first listen. We can’t wait to play it live, it will definitely be in the set for our upcoming tours.”

Watch the official music video for Rend Asunder here: 

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

Track List: 

1. Rend Asunder
2. A Fool’s Errand
3. This Shadowed World
4. Enslavement
5. Ashes of Our Empire
6. The Prophet’s Council
7. Awakening
8. A Fragile Existence
9. Exitus

Divine Council is set for release on August 5th via Prosthetic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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