Source: Bravewords.com
Germany’s ATROCITY have released a video for the song ‘Murder Blood Assassination’, taken from their new Okkult album released back in May:

Okkult is the kickstart to an album trilogy… musically Atrocity show an enormous tension width, and deliver a very powerful, homogeneous and atmospheric album: On the one hand with much bombast and big choirs a la ‘March Of The Undying’; on the other hand Atrocity deliver equally purist, brutal metal songs, which get under your skin just as intensely, closely and authentically.

The overall sound is perfectly harmonized. The earthy, brilliant production sounds intoxicating and gives the musical pieces the necessary energy, atmosphere and roughness to dive immediately into the lyrical concept. This is anything but one-dimensional:

The lyrics relate to occult magic, mysterious places, conspiracy theories and mysteries that are still unsolved. Thus Atrocity turn John Milton’s vision of ‘Pandemonium’ into reality in an imposing way. With ‘Death By Metal’, a mystical tale from long ago, Atrocity have composed a tribute to their own musical roots, as well as it is their own band anthem. The band takes us with ‘Haunted By Demons’ on a Scottish Haunted Castle, and brings in ‘Necromancy Divine’ the ancient necromancer Erictho back to life. Moreover, the Okkult cover motif is dedicated to her. With overwhelming power the gates of hell are opened in ‘Masaya (Boca Del Inferno)’. The epic ‘When Empires Fall To Dust’ set the mystical prophecies of a mysterious, French Freemason from the First World War to music. Never before has the Ides of March been staged musically as gripping as in ‘Murder Blood Assassination’. Also the myths surrounding the Antarctic have never before been turned into such a hymnic piece of music (‘Beyond Perpetual Ice’). As a culmination the poisoner and witch ‘La Voisine’ does her mischief in the Paris of the 17th Century.

The Okkult tracklist is as follows:

‘Pandaemonium’
‘Death By Metal’
‘March Of The Undying’
‘Haunted By Demons’
‘Murder Blood Assassination’
‘Necromancy Divine’
‘Satans Braut’
‘Todesstimmen’
‘Masaya (Boca Del Infierno)’
‘When Empires Fall To Dust’
‘Beyond Perpetual Ice’
‘La Voisine’