Stormruler announce new album ‘Sacred Rites & Black Magick’

STORMRULER have announced a brand new album!

Titled Sacred Rites & Black Magick, the upcoming album from the St. Louis, Missouri-based black metal duo is the follow-up to last year’s Under The Burning Eclipse, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Napalm Records.

The upcoming album was produced, mixed and mastered by Gabe Usery at Encapsulated Studios and featuring stunning artwork by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design and intends to weave epic tales of war, history, black magick and sorcery.

Speaking about the upcoming album, the band says, “this album is on another level in comparison to our previous offering. It falls in the same vein of the melodic second wave black metal worship of Under The Burning Eclipse, but with a more intense and darker touch. It’s got the high speed buzzsaw attack we love, crushing grooves, solid leads, ambience within the interludes and acoustic passages, as well as lyrics that tell a story.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, STORMRULER have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; the title rack Sacred Rites & Black Magick. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “we chose Sacred Rites… as our first offering for many reasons. We feel as if from the strike of the very first chord it gives off an apparent energy that can be felt throughout the entire album. Lyrically it encompasses the feeling of this record rather well with lyrics ripe of black magick rituals and ancient orders.”

Watch the official music video for Sacred Rites & Black Magick here: 

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

Track List: 

1. Hymns Of The Slumbering Race
2. Internal Fulmination Of The Grand Deceivers
3. Adrift Dark Halls Of Vinheim
4. To Bear The Twin Faces Of The Dragon
5. In Light Of Paleblood
6. Entranced Within The Moon Presence
7. Invocation Of The Black Sacrament
8. Sacred Rites & Black Magick
9. Oathpact
10. Ten Heralds, Ten Desolations
11. The Waters Of Iolamita
12. In The Shaded Vlasian Forest
13. Amid A Smear Of Crimson Cloud
14. Apparitions Across The Ravencrest
15. Sanguinare Vampiris
16. Upon Frozen Shores
17. Shadow Of The Golden Eagle
18. Along The Appian Way
19. By Winters Long Passed
20. A Malice Dead & Cold

Sacred Rites & Black Magick is set for release on October 14th via Napalm Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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