FATAL EMBRACE have released their second album “Hail Down Deep”, out now via Black Lion Records.

It had taken a really long time. Or at least it felt long for us, for Candlelight Records to release our debut album Shadowsoul’s Garden. So, when it finally came out in November of 1997 we went back into the studio just a few months later and recorded our second album Hail Down Deep. This time around we knew what to expect and what was going to happen when we went into the studio. Christian Silver (then producer now our drummer) was going to haunt us relentlessly about keeping time and getting our playing abilities up to the standard of our peers in the genre. So we went in there with a mission. To record a close to perfect album. A bold mission statement some would say, but it kept us motivated.

Hail Down Deep was recorded mixed and mastered in March of 1998 and was scheduled to be released later that year. As it turned out though, we had started playing with other bands at the time. Andreas had joined Sundown with Christian Silver and members from Cemetary and Tiamat. Manne would later go on to join Cemetery and later Beseech. Henric started singing with Lothlorien and Tommy joined Eternal Lies. So Hail Down Deep was left unreleased as we all moved on with other bands and other musical endeavors.

When we got back together again as Fatal Embrace and we started talking about writing new music together again, we started talking about releasing Hail Down Deep first and then move on to writing new stuff. As it turned out, it was really inspiring to write new music rather than to release an old album. So that was what we did. We wrote and recorded Manifestum Infernalis, but Hail Down Deep has always been a personal favorite of ours and we are really excited to finally have it released. Since our line-up has changed a bit we felt it would be most fair to the current line-up to let Henric Serholt step up to the microphone and re-record vocals for the album. He is and was back then our lyricist so it was a natural progression for us.

The album has newly recorded vocals and a few additional guitars have been added. It was mixed and mastered by Christian Silver in 2024.

So here it is. Hail Down Deep. Our past is back to hunt us down.

Order/Stream at https://orcd.co/hail-down-deep

Tracklist

1. SPIRIT OF THE FIEND
2. DARKNESS SET AND DONE
3. DEATH BLESSING
4. SOUTHERN MALICE
5. DRICK AV DÖDEN
6. OF UNHOLY MEASURE
7. SVÄRTAN
8. THROUGH THE SPEAKING VEIL
9. DIGGING UP THE HATCHET
10. SOUL OF THE BLACK HEART

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Swedish blackened death metal veterans FATAL EMBRACE will release their brand new full-length record, entitled “Manifestum Infernalis”, on March 24th via Black Lion Records. “Manifestum Infernalis” is the band’s long awaited first new work since 1997, and even though many years have passed, that doesn’t change the fact that Fatal Embrace are “hungrier than ever and super excited to write, record and release new music again!” After the release of the first two singles “Empyreal Doom” and “The Black Oath”, Fatal Embrace follow up with a brand new lyric video for the track “The Rot”.

Fatal Embrace comments:

“The Rot is our third single from our upcoming album Manifestum Infernalis. It was written late in the process but quickly became a band favorite on the album. It has a storytelling quality to it and the lyrics has quite a story to tell as well. It has those qualities that have become our call sign. Frantic parts blended with melodic passages all blended together in darkness to set the mood just right. By now our stand on faith based decision making and collective delusional thinking should be quite clear. This is the death of christianity. This is The Rot. A manifesto all on its own.“

“Manifestum Infernalis” was recorded, mixed, produced and mastered in Studiomega by Christian Silver and Fatal Embrace. Album artwork by Moon Sang. 
Layout and design by Andreas Johansson and Marcos Cerutti. The album is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION

Tracklist:

1. Empyreal Doom
2. The Black Oath
3. Wolves Of Golgotha
4. Prometheus’ Sermon
5. Call Of The dark
6. Eyes of Oak
7. Sign Of The Pentagram
8. Deus Mali
9. The Rot

Fatal Embrace are:
Henric Serholt – Vocals
Christian Silver – Drums
Andreas Johansson – Guitars
Manne Engström – Guitars
John Silver – Bass Guitar

Swedish blackened death metal veterans Fatal Embrace will release their brand new full-length record, entitled “Manifestum Infernalis”, on March 24th via Black Lion Records. “Manifestum Infernalis” is the band’s long awaited first new work since 1997, and even though many years have passed, that doesn’t change the fact that Fatal Embrace are “hungrier than ever and super excited to write, record and release new music again!“

Fatal Embrace on the new album:

“It’s been a long time coming. 30 years have passed since we formed Fatal Embrace back in 1992. It took us 30 years to make the album we always wanted to make. Everything on this album is done by ourselves. Everything. The process of making this album has taken almost 5 years of our lives and a lot has happened during this time. The world seemed to grow darker and darker around us as a pandemic descended upon the world. All this made for an inspiring time to write and record music.
This is by far the darkest creation ever from Fatal Embrace and the darker the album became, the more it felt like therapy. A creative channel for when everything in the world takes a turn for the worse and keeps going south.” 

In support of the soon to be released album, Fatal Embrace have released the brand new single “The Black Oath”. Listen to the track here:

Fatal Embrace comments:

“This was one of the earlier songs we wrote for this album. It became the song we wanted the rest of the album to measure up against. It contains all the elements of what makes up the dna of our music. Melodic black metal with frantic passages combined with some symphonics thrown into the mix. This was the song that made us realise we wanted to move closer to blackened metal than in our early days. For us this was a very natural transformation and we are really pleased with the outcome of The Black Oath.”

“Manifestum Infernalis” was recorded, mixed, produced and mastered in Studiomega by Christian Silver and Fatal Embrace. Album artwork by Moon Sang. Layout and design by Andreas Johansson and Marcos Cerutti. The album is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION

Tracklist:

1. Empyreal Doom
2. The Black Oath
3. Wolves Of Golgotha
4. Prometheus’ Sermon
5. Call Of The dark
6. Eyes of Oak
7. Sign Of The Pentagram
8. Deus Mali
9. The Rot

Fatal Embrace are:
Henric Serholt – Vocals
Christian Silver – Drums
Andreas Johansson – Guitars
Manne Engström – Guitars
John Silver – Bass Guitar

Swedish blackened death metal veterans Fatal Embrace have announced the release of the band’s upcoming new album, entitled “Manifestum Infernalis”, which will be coming out on February 24th via Black Lion Records. “Manifestum Infernalis” is the band’s long awaited first new work since 1997, many years have passed, but that doesn’t change anything and Fatal Embrace are “hungrier than ever and super excited to write, record and release new music again!“

Fatal Embrace on the new album:

“It’s been a long time coming. 30 years have passed since we formed Fatal Embrace back in 1992. It took us 30 years to make the album we always wanted to make. Everything on this album is done by ourselves. Everything. The process of making this album has taken almost 5 years of our lives and a lot has happened during this time. The world seemed to grow darker and darker around us as a pandemic descended upon the world. All this made for an inspiring time to write and record music.
This is by far the darkest creation ever from Fatal Embrace and the darker the album became, the more it felt like therapy. A creative channel for when everything in the world takes a turn for the worse and keeps going south.” 

Tracklist reads as follows:

1. Empyreal Doom
2. The Black Oath
3. Wolves Of Golgotha
4. Prometheus’ Sermon
   5 Call Of The dark
5. Eyes of Oak
6. Sign Of The Pentagram
   8 Deus Mali
7. The Rot

Listen to the first single “Empyreal Doom” here:

“Empyreal doom is the first single from our upcoming album Manifestum Infernalis. This song represents the album in every aspect. Both musically and lyrically Empyreal Doom gives an insight into what can be expected from the upcoming album. Early fans of Fatal Embrace will most likely be in for a bit of a surprise at first before finding that this is still very much Fatal Embrace. We have been around for long enough to know that the Empyreal Doom is inevitable for all of us.” the band comments. 

“Manifestum Infernalis” was recorded, mixed, produced and mastered in Studiomega by Christian Silver and Fatal Embrace. Album artwork by Moon Sang. Layout and design by Andreas Johansson and Marcos Cerutti. The album is now available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION

Fatal Embrace are:
Henric Serholt – Vocals
Christian Silver – Drums
Andreas Johansson – Guitars
Manne Engström – Guitars
John Silver – Bass Guitar