‘The Approaching Roar’

Enigmatic Spanish metal extremists ALTARAGE have released the full album stream of their forthcoming release, ‘The Approaching Roar’, which will be released on January 25 via Season of Mist. The full record can be heard HERE:

Speaking of the new record, ALTARAGE comment, “Words are futile here. The best way to understand this record is to give up to it completely, without distractions, without mundane traditions. Time is running out. Failure be welcomed.”

The album is available in Digipak CD and Vinyl LP formats. It can be pre-ordered at THIS LOCATION.

Track-list

1. Sighting (3:46)
2. Knowledge (3:42)
3. Urn (7:35)
4. Hieroglyphic Certainty (2:51)
5. Cyclopean Clash (6:18)
6. Inhabitant (5:12)
7. Chaworos Sephelln (6:02)
8. Werbuild (4:07)
9. Engineer (3:04)
Total: 42:37

ALTARAGE deliver exactly what the underground buzz around them promised. Their third full-length, ‘The Approaching Roar’ is bristling with black and dissonant death metal fury that immediately evokes a plethora of sinister images in the brain. Their relentless soul-crushing sound is sending the scared mind on overdrive.

Little is known about this secretive death metal collective, except their origin from Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque country of Spain. In 2015, ALTARAGE unleashed a demo simply entitled after its year of release (‘MMXV’), which generated massive interest in the extreme metal scene around the globe. This was soon followed by the debut album ‘NIHL’ in 2016 and their second full length ‘Endinghent’ in 2017, gaining high praise from critics and fans alike.

ALTARAGE return to mercilessly drag you into an abyss of nightmares and twisted meanings. ‘The Approaching Roar’, in their own words, calls the doom inhabitants to reach a whole nothing. Welcome to this new dimension of sonic darkness.

Enigmatic Spanish metal extremists ALTARAGE have premiered “Inhabitant”, the second track of their forthcoming new full length ‘The Approaching Roar’, coming out January 25th via Season of Mist.

Regarding the track, the band comments, “This artifact shall be a reminder of the floodgates about to be open, monolith of contempt, devourer of reality.”

ALTARAGE emerge once again with ‘The Approaching Roar’; their most violent and abrasive album yet. The album’s nine tracks of suffocating, pitch-black death looses an onslaught of caustic, distorted riffs, cacophonous blasts and nebular vocal nihilism. ‘The Approaching Roar’ gives no quarter, and cements ALTARAGE as one of the genre’s most extreme and unforgiving entities. Pre-orders for ‘The Approaching Roar’ are available now here.

The artwork, illustrated by Nick Keller (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, VAMPIRE, and more) and track list for ‘The Approaching Roar’ can be found below:

Track list:
1. Sighting
2. Knowledge
3. Urn
4. Hieroglyphic Certainty
5. Cyclopean Clash (click to stream, listen on Spotify)
6. Inhabitant
7. Chaworos Sephelln
8. Werbuild
9. Engineer

Although little is known about the Spanish band’s origins, ALTARAGE state themselves that the band was “spawned in a nihilistic cauldron of contempt, in order to reach out the nothingness of all planes of existence”. Masters of “primitive, poisonous, electrifying music from a band that’s now squarely on my radar screen for the future.” (No Clean Singing), the secretive metal band quickly gained notoriety in the death metal underground through their self-released demo and their acclaimed debut-full length.