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Swedish black metal force THIS GIFT IS A CURSE‘s new album, ‘All Hail the Swinelord’ is out worldwide, and streaming here.

‘All Hail the Swinelord’ which is being called “a standing example of what black metal as a whole should represent” (CvltNation), and “infernal cacophony…Rarely has the phrase “extreme music” been as apt as it is here” (MetalSucks) is available across multiple CD and LP formats at the Season of Mist E-Shop and the band’s official Bandcamp Page.

Regarding the album, the band comment:

“We feel that ‘All Hail the Swinelord’ is the band’s best and most refined work yet. This concerns both our musical vision as well as its occult themes. The sharp violent chaos comes from the same black sludgy source as before. Yet this time, we are stabbing with more precision and aim, because we now know where to strike to deliver some real damage!”

The artwork and track list for “All Hail the Swinelord” can be found below:

Tracklisting 
1. Swinelord
2. New Temples
3. Rites
4. XI: For I Am The Fire
5. Hanging Feet
6. Old Lies
7. We Use Your Dead As Vessels
8. Askrådare

Regarding the themes of the new album, the band comments:

“The name of the record is “All Hail the Swinelord”, and the record itself is a thematic album about the self-inflicted process of dehumanization and the loss of all notions of what we consider existence. A metaphysical and ritual guideline for the crossing of the final threshold. Into the shadows, to touch His black crown… “