The two items in this post both appeared this morning. I thought their near-simultaneous appearance was ominous, as if constituting a kind of queasiness-inducing evidence that there really are Great Old Ones in the Earth, and they are beginning to rouse themselves from their slumbers.
Both Anaal Nathrakh and Dragged Into Sunlight are from the UK, they are both favorites of this site, and they both create brilliant, hellish, obliterating music — though not of the same kind. As I wrote the last time we paired news from these bands together, “Anaal Nathrakh give you a nightmarish rocket-ride into the abyss, and Dragged Into Sunlight trap you there in a vat of acid sludge that slowly liquifies your flesh.” Here’s the latest news from both bands:
ANAAL NATHRAKH
As we reported four days ago (here), Candlelight Records will be releasing Anaal Nathrakh’s new album on October 15. Its name is Vanitas, and for that earlier post we even managed to find a small image of the album cover (which has now “officially” surfaced on the band’s Facebook page).
As of this morning we now have a teaser clip of music from the album. It’s harrowing stuff (and we would expect nothing less) — a catastrophic blast of infernal grind that sounds terrifically pissed off; the vocals are intense, even by Dave Hunt’s previous standards. Check it out next:
DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT
I’ve been hearing about the successor to Dragged Into Sunlight’s stunning first album Hatred For Mankind for more than a year. Its name is Widowmaker. As of today, we finally have concrete information about its release.
This morning Prosthetic Records announced that Widowmaker will be released on Nov. 6 in North America, Nov. 5 in the UK, and Nov. 9 in Germany. It will consist of only three tracks, with a total run time of 40 minutes. It was created during three recording sessions over the course of two years and includes additional guitars by an unnamed member of UK cult metal band Bossk.
Mysteriously, the band have stressed that the new album is “not to be considered a follow-up” to Hatred For Mankind. That may have to do with the points in time at which the Widowmaker music was recorded, though I’ve heard through the grapevine that the music is indeed different — but exceptionally heavy.
There’s more news about the album that I saw in the following graphic on the DIS Facebook page. I’ll let it speak for itself:
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New Anaal Nathrakh sounds great. I need to listen to “Passion” more.
Psyched for new DIS as well. Additionally, I bet that there’s a song called “Snapping the Bones of the Weak and Crushing Their Shrunken Skulls” on the new album.
I bet you’re right.
By a remarkable coincidence, “A rabid blend somewhere between burning witch and disembowelment” exactly describes my morning coffee.
Dude, you need to switch to Deathwish coffee. It’s more like the transition from man to wolf.
I used to drink Deathwish, but the neighbors got all pissed when I broke into their house in wolf form and and ate their children.
Bah, children are overrated.
Right??? You understand.
I feel like the only person who’s made it through high school that knows of coffee and has no interest in trying it.
Good luck with your abstinence, especially when an all-nighter is staring you in the face.
Maybe I will try it some time, but I don’t see it happening anytime soon. 😛
The Anaal Nathrakh teaser ripped my flesh and muscle off. I am now nothing more than a walking skeleton (my internal organs just sort of fell out). I couldn’t be happier.
I saw the DIS thing earlier, and I read the “not a follow up” remark as meaning that Widowmaker’s not going to be in the same musical vein as Hatred for Mankind. Either way, I’m super stoked.
Well, they’re definitely not going prog on us.
Well fuck, the new Anaal Nathrakh teaser has me psyched.
Omg i want that new AN so bad I can taste it.
It wants to taste you, too.
I want to taste you.
I want to take pictures of you all tasting each other.
That will cost extra.
I haven’t actually heard the AN teaser yet, and I’m already pregnant with expectation.
My ass feels like it’s about to explode with expectation babies! Either that or I shouldn’t have eaten that day old tuna-rice ball.
What are you waiting for, an engraved invitation from the band? Rice balls.