“The Child Must Die”

NIHILISTINEN-BARBAARISUUS

U.S. Black Metallers NIHILISTINEN BARBAARISUUS have released The Child Must Die on Infernal Kommando Records. Stream the album in its entirety, courtesy of Gunshy Assassin, at this location.

The band has also released a video for the title track, which can be viewed here:

The music and art of The Child Must Die are based on the Finnish national epic The Kalevala (poetic Book with a Collection of Myths and Legends that occupies a prominent Place in the Finnish Identity), with most songs adapted directly from passages from the text. Stylistically, this is Finnish/U.S. atmospheric Black Metal with a concept based on the Kalevala. It is epic, melodic, aggressive and personal at once!

The album comes as a six-panel digipack, limited to 500 copies. Purchase The Child Must Die on Bandcamp or through Infernal Kommando.

1. Wondrous Sampo
2. The Child Must Die
3. Let Them Perish
4. Feast of the North Farm
5. Amidst the Waves
6. Vainamoinen
7. The Night She Died

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Forged out of the icy wilderness of the north, this beast of Helsinki/Philadelphia composes odes of cold subsonics and frigid atmospheres. Inspired by founder Mika Mage’s Finnish heritage, the band showcases Ambient Black Metal visuals and atmospheres. Cold, grim, and strangely uplifting, Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus are masters of melancholy.

Mika Mage (Lawrence’s Creation) – guitar, bass, composer
Joel Robert Thompson (Omelas) – vocalsGuest Members:
Lawrence Wallace (Shadows in the Crypt, Lawrence’s Creation, Serpent ov Old) – keys
Kol Slavv (ex-Black Crown Initiate, ex-Single Bullet Theory, ex-Aborted Existence) – drums

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According to Century Media Records, In anticipation of their album’s release, Swedish black metallers WATAIN are now unleashing yet another new track from their forthcoming full-length, The Wild Hunt, which is due out August 19th in Europe and August 20th in North America through the band’s own label His Master’s Noise via Century Media Records. Watch below the new song “The Child Must Die”.

WATAIN comments: “‘The Child Must Die’ is a song of sorrow and liberation, of the sacrifices that the path of adversity requires. Musically it shows yet another side of ‘The Wild Hunt,’ being more Heavy Metal-rooted perhaps than ‘All That May Bleed’.”

For another preview of The Wild Hunt, be sure to check out the album’s first single, “All That May Bleed”, which is now available for purchase as a digital download and as an exclusive 7″ at www.wolfwear.net and www.cmdistro.com.

And to give you even more to listen to this weekend: WATAIN have teamed up with the American Decibel Magazine to give fans a white-on-black flexi disc for the exclusive cover song “Fuck Off, We Murder” (made famous by GG Allin). To hear the track, head over to Metal Sucks.net!

WATAIN comments: “Driven by an inner fire and a genuine contempt for society and all its particles, GG Allin lived and died as a true rock n roll outlaw, and is to this day an inspiration for anyone to whom conformity and authority are things that must be fought and eliminated, not only by words but by action.”

The flexi disc for “Fuck Off, We Murder” will be available for subscribers only in Decibel’s September issue (out in August).

Produced once again by Tore Stjerna at his Necromorbus studio in Alvik (Sweden), The Wild Hunt is a sonic and lyrical tour-de-force that explores WATAIN’s roots, such as BATHORY and DISSECTION, while also remaining truly unique. Having lost none of their integrity, WATAIN continues to push the boundaries of the scene with their fifth full-length, refusing to compromise their sound and vision. Amid the tracks teeming with the band’s classic sound, The Wild Hunt also features clean vocals (a first for the band!) which, as front-man Erik puts it, “…is just us being brutally personal and honest. It shows another important facet of the WATAIN world.” As this new album will soon prove, WATAIN truly lives in a world all their own.

The Wild Hunt will be released worldwide in the following formats:
–standard CD jewelcase
–limited edition CD mediabook
–2LP, 180gr black vinyl
–limited edition box set
–digital download

The Wild Hunt track-listing
1. Night Vision (3:39)
2. De Profundis (4:33)
3. Black Flames March (6:21)
4. All That May Bleed (4:36)
5. The Child Must Die (6:04)
6. They Rode On (8:43)
7. Sleepless Evil (5:38)
8. The Wild Hunt (6:21)
9. Outlaw (5:07)
10. Ignem Veni Mittere (4:39)
11. Holocaust Dawn (7:07)

WATAIN online:
www.templeofwatain.com
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