Greek Black Metallers HERETIC CULT REDEEMER, have shared their new track “Grave Sophia – Breath Of The Night”. The song is the second to be revealed from the band’s third album, “Flagellum Universalis”, set for release on April 21st via III Damnation Productions.
“The music on this sixth track from the new album is a relentless shapeshifter that sounds like a hellish sonic nightmare, so thoroughly inhuman that it creates fear at a primal level, and so drenched in a hostile atmosphere of the supernatural that it chills the blood. And yet the song also proves, paradoxically, to be mesmerizing as well as disorienting and intensely disturbing.”
Never ones to rush nor adopt half-measures, HERETIC CULT REDEEMER have completed their third album, “Flagellum Universalis”, which features the lineup of vocalist / bassist Funus, guitarist / bassist Tempest, guitarist N3, and drummer C. Docre. Undoubtedly the band’s best lineup yet, suitably do they deliver their strongest recorded statement yet in “Flagellum Univerisalis”. Nearing a full hour in length, the album is literally massive, as well as ceremonial, invoking a new era for HERETIC CULT REDEEMER, as well as reinvigoration of orthodox / religious-style Black Metal. Never forgetting their more death metalled roots, the band’s gnawing and gnarly epics feature as much brawn as brain as they spiral outward from an ominous core.
With form meeting content, the lyrics to the nine-song “Flagellum Universalis” are indeed heady. The concept of record plunges into the paths of the primeval human urge of opposition to law and structure; it is a profound spiritual and philosophical journey towards Eosphoric self-knowledge. HERETIC CULT REDEEMER consider themselves as the means, harbingers, and vessels of Luciferian and Promethean teachings, as expressed through the frenzy, of the touch of Echidna.
“Flagellum Universalis” track listing:
- Lunar Reign – Lunar Apogee
- Intoxication Divine
- Ascending Perfection
- Lapsit Exillis
- The Woven Chords of Ecstasy
- Grave Sophia – Breath of the Night
- Eye of the Saturnian Dawn
- Primeval Cognition I
- Primeval Cognition II
You can listen to “Grave Sophia – Breath of the Night” in the following video:
