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New Behemoth album coming in September

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , , on 11th May 2022 by izaforestspirit

The legendary Polish blackened death metal band Behemoth have just announced that their new album, the follow up to ‘I Loved You At Your Darkest’ will be entitled ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’. Here’s what their front-man Nergal had to say about it:

“The album title means ‘going against the current’. It’s the negative of the values and morals and ethics that I, Nergal, stand against. I’ve seriously been wrestling with destructive tendencies in pop culture – cancel culture, social media, and tools which I feel are very dangerous weapons in the hands of people who are not competent to judge others. That’s something which I find very destructive and disturbing – and extremely limiting coming from an artists’ perspective.

This album is my middle finger to that.“

Here’s the cover art and track-listing:

  1. Post-God Nirvana
  2. Malaria Vvlgata
    3.The Deathless Sun
  3. Ov My Herculean Exile
  4. Neo-Spartacvs
  5. Disinheritance
  6. Off To War!
  7. Once Upon A Pale Horse
  8. Thy Becoming Eternal
  9. Versvs Christvs

‘Opvs Contra Natvram’ will be out in digital and a variety of physical versions on 16th September 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records. Those who opt for the physical formats will have a choice of a white or black covers for the limited vinyls and the CD digibooks.

For now you can check out their video for the new single ‘Ov My Herculean Exile’:

For more information go to:

https://www.behemoth.pl/

https://www.facebook.com/behemoth

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New Hocico album coming this spring

Posted in News, Studio Report with tags , , , on 15th February 2022 by izaforestspirit

The Mexican industrial duo Hocico are back with a new album. The follow up to ‘Artificial Extinction’ will be called ‘HyperViolent’. Check out the cover and track-listing:

1. When The Trumpets Of Hate Blow
2. Broken Empires
3. Acts of Aggression
4. Un Sepulcro Sin Cadaver
5. What Are Nightmares Made Of?
6. Hacked Society
7. El Jardin de Las Locuras
8. Backstabbers
9. Lost World
10. Black Reflection
11. N.W.O.
12. Crown of Knives
13. Peccata Mundi

HYPERSIDE EFFECTS (Bonus CD):
1. Weapons of Resistance feat. Aaron Matts
2. Odio Bajo el Alma (Version Mariachi)
3. Black Mirror
4. Dog Eat Dog (Desputes Remix)
5. The Fall

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‘HyperViolent’ will be released in the following physical formats: double CD, vinyl, cassette, a limited collector’s edition box as well as digital download on 14th April 2022 via Out of Line Records.

In the meantime you can see their video for ‘Backstabbers’:

For more details visit:

https://www.facebook.com/hocicoofficial
https://www.hocico.com/

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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett’s solo EP coming soon

Posted in News, Studio Report with tags , , , , on 9th February 2022 by izaforestspirit

Kirk Hammett the legendary guitarist of world renowned heavy metal outfit Metallica has recently announced that he will be releasing his debut instrumental EP ‘Portals’ this spring. Here’s a statement from the artist:

“The initial concept for Portals started with that one song. Following that, I realized I could create different soundtrack moments. These songs are what I call ‘Audio Cinematic;’ I’m creating sounds and pieces of music for the movies playing in my head. Hopefully they’ll create movies in other people’s heads in a similar fashion.“

Check out the cover art:

Learn More About Kirk Hammett's Portals

The EP will feature guest performances from Edwin Outwater (LA Philharmonic also present on Metallica’s S&M2) and Bob Rock plus others. ‘Portals’ will be available out worldwide in both physical and digital formats on 23rd April 2022.

For more information visit:

https://www.metallica.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Metallica

https://www.facebook.com/kirkHammett

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New album from Dawn of Ashes coming this spring

Posted in News, Studio Report with tags , , on 20th January 2022 by izaforestspirit

American industrial black metal band Dawn of Ashes have recently announced that their new album, the follow up to 2020’s ‘The Antinomian’ will be called ‘Scars of the Broken’. Here’s the cover art and track-listing:

  1. (Descending) Torn Inside
  2. Love Is Asphyxiation
  3. The Despondent Hole
  4. EMDR
  5. Bane of Your Existence
  6. (Limbo) Numb
  7. It Comes in Waves
  8. Heart Beats Cold
  9. Turn It Shallow
  10. Scars of the Broken
  11. The Antidote
  12. (Ascending) Catharsis

Dawn of Ashes - Scars of the Broken

‘Scars of the Broken’ will be released in both physical and digital formats on 18th March 2022 via Artoffact Records. In the meantime you can check out their new single ‘EMDR’.

For more information go to:

https://dawnofashesofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Dawnofashes/

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Sabaton reveal new album details

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , on 8th October 2021 by izaforestspirit

The well renowned Swedish power metal band Sabaton have recently announced that their new album the follow up to ‘The Great War’, will be entitled ‘The War To End All Wars’. Like its predecessor this one will also be focusing on World War I.

Here’s the cover art and track-listing:

Sabaton - The War to End All Wars
  1. Sarajevo
  2. Stormtroopers
  3. Dreadnought
  4. The Unkillable Soldier
  5. Soldier of Heaven
  6. Hellfighters
  7. Race to the Sea
  8. Lady of the Dark
  9. The Valley of Death
  10. Christmas Truce
  11. Versailles

‘The War To End All Wars’ will be out in both physical and digital formats on March 4th 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records.

For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/sabaton

Sabaton | Official Website

https://sabaton.bandcamp.com/

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More details about the new Cradle of Filth album

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , , on 11th August 2021 by izaforestspirit

British extreme Gothic metallers Cradle of Filth have recently announced that their latest album will be entitled ‘Existence is Futile’. This is the band’s thirteenth studio effort following ‘Cryptoriana – Seductiveness of Decay. This will be the first album to feature their new keyboard player Anabelle Iratni.

Here’s the cover art and track-listing:

  1. The Fate of the World on Our Shoulders
  2. Existential Terror
  3. Necromantic Fantasies
  4. Crawling King Chaos
  5. Here Comes a Candle… (Infernal Lullaby)
  6. Black Smoke Curling from the Lips of War
  7. Discourse Between a Man and His Soul
  8. The Dying of the Embers
  9. Ashen Mortality
  10. How Many Tears to Nurture a Rose?
  11. Suffer Our Dominion
  12. Us, Dark, Invincible

Cradle of Filth - Existence Is Futile

‘Existance Is Futile’ will be out worldwide in both physical and digital format on 22nd October 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records. ‘

For more info go to:

https://www.cradleoffilth.com/

https://www.facebook.com/cradleoffilth
https://twitter.com/CradleofFilth

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Iron Maiden return with ‘Senjutsu’ this autumn

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , , on 22nd July 2021 by izaforestspirit

It’s been six years since their last album ‘The Book of Souls’, now the world renowned British heavy metal band Iron Maiden have returned with their last studio effort. Bruce Dickinson and co are happy to announce that their new album will be entitled ‘Senjutsu’. Here’s the track-listing and cover art:

  1. Senjutsu
  2. Stratego
  3. The Writing on the Wall
  4. Lost in a Lost World
  5. Days of Future Past
  6. The Time Machine
  7. Darkest Hour
  8. Death of the Celts
  9. The Parchment
  10. Hell on Earth

Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

‘Senjutsu’ will hit the shops worldwide in both digital and physical formats on 3rd September 2021 via Parlophone Records. The band have also released a video for the title track called ‘The Writing on the Wall’.

For more information go to:

https://www.facebook.com/ironmaiden

https://www.ironmaiden.com/

https://www.youtube.com/ironmaiden

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New Impaled Nazarene album coming later this month

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , on 3rd May 2021 by izaforestspirit

Good news for black metal fans. Seven years since their last studio effort ‘Vigorous and Liberating Death’, now the Finnish group Impaled Nazarene are finally ready to unleash their latest opus on the world. Their long-awaited new album will be entitled ‘Eight Headed Serpent’.

Here’s the cover art and track-listing:

  1. Goat of Mendes
  2. Eight Headed Serpent
  3. The Nonconformists
  4. Octagon Order
  5. Metastasizing and Changing Threat
  6. Debauchery and Decay
  7. Human Cesspool
  8. Apocalypse Pervertor
  9. Triumphant Return of the Antichrist
  10. Mutilation of the Nazarene Whore
  11. Foucault Pendulum

Impaled Nazarene - Eight Headed Serpent

‘Eight Headed Serpent’ will be out in all formats on 28th May 2021 via Osmose Productions.

For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/ImpaledNazareneOfficial
https://twitter.com/campnazarene

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Vengeant release second single

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , on 24th April 2021 by izaforestspirit

Here’s something for fans of symphonic metal. Swedish symphonic metal group Vengeant have just released their latest single called ‘The Unreal’. This is the second single following ‘Angel’s Battle Cry’ which came out back in February 2021.

The band was formed at the start of this year and their line-up includes: Danae Komodromou (vocals), Alfred Fridhagen (drums) and Dennis Eriksson (rhythm guitar). Despite the limited number of new music releases, they have already gained a massive following on a variety of social media.

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‘The Unreal’ is available for streaming on all major digital platforms. You can listen to it on Spotify here:

For more info visit:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vengeantofficial
Instagram: https://bit.ly/38qguw0


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New Helloween album coming this summer

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , on 29th March 2021 by izaforestspirit

Good news for Helloween fans. The band have been hinting at a new album featuring all three Helloween singers for quite some time. Now they finally issued a release date for the new opus. The long anticipated. self-titled album will be out this spring on 18th June 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records in both physical and digital formats.

Here’s the covert art and track-listing:

Helloween - Helloween



  1. Out for the Glory
  2. Fear of the Fallen
  3. Best Time
  4. Mass Pollution
  5. Angels
  6. Rise Without Chains
  7. Indestructible
  8. Robot King
  9. Cyanide
  10. Down in the Dumps
  11. Orbit
  12. Skyfall

There will also be a new single called ‘Skyfall’ out this week on Friday 2nd April 2021.


For more details go to: https://www.helloween.org/

https://www.facebook.com/helloweenofficial

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Cannibal Corpse announce new album

Posted in News, Studio Report on 7th February 2021 by izaforestspirit

Three years since ‘Red Before Black’ now American death metallers Cannibal Corpse are back with a new album called ‘Violence Umimagined’. Check out the cover art here:

Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
  1. Murderous Rampage 04:07
  2. Necrogenic Resurrection 03:06
  3. Inhumane Harvest 04:32 Show lyrics
  4. Condemnation Contagion 04:17
  5. Surround, Kill, Devour 04:10
  6. Ritual Annihilation 03:48
  7. Follow the Blood 04:39
  8. Bound and Burned 04:04
  9. Slowly Sawn 03:30
  10. Overtorture 02:28
  11. Cerements of the Flayed

This will also be the first album to feature their new guitarist Erik Rutan who joined the band in last year.

‘Violence Umimagined’ will be out in April 2021 via Metal Blade Records.

For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/cannibalcorpse
http://www.cannibalcorpse.net/

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First single from Vengeant coming next month

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , , , on 11th January 2021 by izaforestspirit

Here is something for fans of symphonic power metal. Introducing the Swedish symphonic metal group Vengeant. It was created in November 2019 and the line-up includes Greek singer Danae Komodromou (Scarlet Desire), lead guitarist and bassist Christoffer Holm, rhythm guitarist Dennis Eriksson (Mad Hatter, Darkest Void) and drummer Alfred Fridhagen (Saint Deamon, Mad Hatter and Darkest Void). They cite Magic: the Gathering as an influence on their music.

They are currently working on their debut EP due later this year. Their first single ‘Angel’s Battle Cry’ will be released on 12th February 2021. Check out the cover art:

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For more details check out: https://www.facebook.com/vengeantofficial/

https://www.instagram.com/vengeantofficial/

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Mork announces new album details

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , on 12th December 2020 by izaforestspirit

Time for some black metal news. If you are fan of the Norwegian black metal scene, particularly bands such as Darkthrone and Taake, there is a very good chance that you might also enjoy Mork. The one man project was launched back in 2004 by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Eriksen. His first album ‘Isebakke’ came out in 2013.

This year saw the release of his latest EP ‘Pesta’ via Peaceville Records. Check out the title track here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFtzp3vH37Y&list=OLAK5uy_mgvk-Of-B8o39u306OzqdG9zJ5_7Hz7CY&index=1

Since then he has been busy in the studio working on Morke’s fifth album ‘Katedralen’. The cover art has been created by the French artist David Thiérrée and the record features guest performances Nocturno Culto (Darkthrone), Dolk (Kampfar) and Eero Pöyry (Skepticism).
The track-list will be as follows:

1 Dodsmarsjen
2 Svartmalt
3 Arv
4 Evig Intens Smerte
5 Det Siste Gode I Meg
6 Fodt Til A Herske
7 Lysbaereren
8 De Fortapte Sjelers Katedral

Mork - Katedralen

‘Katedralen’ will be available in both physical and digital formats on 5th March 2021 via Peaceville Records.

For more information go to:
https://www.facebook.com/MORKOFFICIAL
https://www.morkisebakke.no/

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Bodom After Midnight enter the studio

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , , , , on 11th November 2020 by izaforestspirit

Good news for Children of Bodom fans. When the band split up last year, their front-man Alexi Laiho formed a new band called Bodom After Midnight with rhythm guitarist Daniel Freyberg (also ex-Children of Bodom), drummer Waltteri Väyrynen (Paradise Lost) and bassist Mitja Toivonen (Santa Cruz).

Now after a handful of small but successful shows in their native Finland the quartet have entered Finnox studio in Helsinki to record their debut album. The latest update is that the drum work is complete. The album has no title nor has there been any mention of whether there will keyboard player joining the line-up. They have yet to announce when the new album will be released but it will most likely not happen until 2021.

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For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/pg/bodomaftermidnightofficial/

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Rob Zombie reveals new album details

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , on 31st October 2020 by izaforestspirit

Happy Halloween everyone! Here is some exciting news for fans of the American industrial rock band Rob Zombie. It’s been six years since their last studio effort, the downright bizarre but entertaining ‘The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser’. Now they are back and the long wait for new music will soon be over.

The font-man and film director Rob Zombie has recently announced that the new album will be entitled ‘The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy’.
Check out the cover art and track-listing below:

Tracklist:

  1. Expanding the Head of Zed
  2. The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)
  3. The Ballad of Sleazy Rider
  4. Hovering Over the Dull Earth
  5. Shadow of the Cemetery Man
  6. A Brief Static Hum and Then the Radio Blared
  7. 18th Century Cannibals, Excitable Morlocks and a One-Way Ticket On the Ghost Train
  8. The Eternal Struggles of the Howling Man
  9. The Much Talked of Metamorphosis
  10. The Satanic Rites of Blacula
  11. Shower of Stones
  12. Shake Your Ass-Smoke Your Grass
  13. Boom-Boom-Boom
  14. What You Gonna Do with That Gun Mama?
  15. Get Loose
  16. The Serenity of Witches
  17. Crow Killer Blues

‘The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy’ will be out in both digital and physical formats on 12th March 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records. In the meantime you can check out their new video for song ‘The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WULTU6zl2E

For more information visit: https://robzombie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RobZombie

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New single from Yesterday I Lived

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , on 6th August 2020 by izaforestspirit

Here is something for fans of doom metal. The Moscow based, Russian atmospheric doom metal artist Yesterday I Lived has just released his latest single ‘Theatre of Sorrow’.

The project was created last year. The new single and his self-titled debut album are available exclusively from his bandcamp page.

For more information visit:

https://yesterday-i-lived.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/yesterday.i.lived/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs-i5806YMghIcLtNo9OllA/

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Finntroll announce new album details

Posted in News, Studio Report with tags , , on 26th June 2020 by izaforestspirit

It’s been seven years since their last studio effort . Now the Finnish folk metal horde Finntroll are pleased to announce that their new album will be out this autumn. The long-awaited follow-up to ‘Blodsvept’ bears the title ‘Vredesvävd’ (meaning wrath woven in Swedish).

Here is an official statement from the band:

“Vredesvävd is shamelessly untrendy, fierce and a catchy album. Raising a mushroom-cladded middle finger towards lazy rock music, it whips and whacks the poor listener in a way that only Finntroll is capable of delivering. Combining something old, something new and a ton of something black.”

Check out the artwork and track-listing:

  1. Väktaren
  2. Att Döda Med En Sten
  3. Ormfolk
  4. Gränars Väg
  5. Forsen
  6. Vid Häxans Härd
  7. Myren
  8. Stjärnornas Mjöd
  9. Mask
  10. Ylaren
Finntroll - Vredesvävd

‘Vredesvävd’ is scheduled to hit the shops worldwide in both digital and physical formats on 18th September 2020 via Century Media Records.

For more information visit:

https://www.trollhorde.com/

https://www.facebook.com/officialfinntroll/

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New Ensiferum album coming this summer

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report, Uncategorized with tags , , on 29th May 2020 by izaforestspirit

It’s been three years after their last studio effort ‘Two Paths’. Now the Finnish folk metallers are back with a new album called ‘Thalassic’. Here is an official statement from the band regarding the lyrical themes:

“The idea of it started to brew in my mind when I was doing interviews for ‘Two Paths‘ and many journalists asked if it was a theme album, and I noticed that I was answering all the time that because of the way we compose it’s almost impossible to make a theme album. This really started to piss me off and the decision was made: the next album would have a theme. At that time, we already had a few songs almost ready for the next album, and I started to listen to the demos much more from the feeling aspect instead of analyzing them musically. For some reason, all of them took me to a seashore, and the theme was found: something related to sea or water. So I started to read about history, myths and legend around the world that had something to do with the theme, but even though all of the lyrics are obviously inspired by this, I tried my best to keep Ensiferum‘s heroic mentality in them. In the end, there were too many ideas for lyrics, because I didn’t set myself any boundaries – like all stories would have to be Nordic, etc, and one of my favourite songs on the album tells about Andromeda from Greek mythology. I can’t promise that this way of lyric-writing will be the future of Ensiferum, but at least we did this once.”

You see the cover art and track-listing below:

1. Seafarer’s Dream
2. Rum, Women, Victory
3. Andromeda
4. The Defence of the Sampo
5. Run from the Crushing Tide
6. For Sirens
7. One with the Sea
8. Midsummer Magic
9. Cold Northland (Väinämöinen Part III)
10. Merille Lahteva (Bonus Track)
11. I’ll Stay by Your Side (Bonus Track)

‘Thalassic’ will hit the shops in both physical and digital formats on 10th July 2020 via Metal Blade Records.

In the meantime you can check out their new lyric video for ‘Rum, Women, Victory’

For further information visit:

https://www.facebook.com/Ensiferum

https://ensiferum.com/

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DevilDriver unveil new album details

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , , on 21st May 2020 by izaforestspirit

Two years after their country music covers album ‘Outlaws ‘Til The End’ was released, now the American groove metal band DevilDriver are back. They recently announced that their new studio effort will be called ‘Dealing With Demons I’.

Their front-man Dez Farara stated that this will be the first volume of a double album concept focusing on human nature, emotions and personal struggles. Here is an extract of he had to say about it:

“It’s time to lay it all out, on two records. I’m never gonna revisit these subjects again. I’ve been writing about this sort of human nature, disloyalty and dishonesty, love and loss, since the beginning of my career. I am going in a more lyrically woke direction in the future. A lot of people say my music gives them strength. But what they don’t realize is that these topics haunt me. Over the course of these last few years we fled from wildfires, my wife battled cancer and now we are going through a pandemic… so it is what it is… let’s dump it all on the table and purge. I want to go through different topics in the future, so here we are now. I’ve laid it all out on a double record for all of you to hear.”

Check out the cover art and track-listing below:

DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons, Volume I

1. Keep Away From Me
2. Vengeance Is Clear
3. Nest Of Vipers
4. Iona
5. Wishing
6. You Give Me A Reason To Drink (feat. Simon Blade Fafara)
7. Witches
8. Dealing With Demons
9. The Damned Don’t Cry
10. Scars Me Forever

‘Dealing With Demons I’ will hit the shops on 9th October 2020 via Napalm Records.

For now you can check out the lyric video for their new single ‘Keep Away From Me’

For more information visit:
https://www.facebook.com/devildriver/

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Vader reveal new album details

Posted in Misc., News, Studio Report with tags , , on 6th March 2020 by izaforestspirit

The Polish death metal group Vader have a long tradition of releasing an EP as a teaser to an upcoming album. So when ‘Thy Messanger’ came out last year I suspected that there was a new Vader album in works. Well, there is… Now the new opus has a name, cover art and a release date. Peter and the gang recently revealed that the follow-up to ‘The Empire’ will be entitled ‘Solitude in Madness’.

You can check out the cover art and track-listing below:

Vader - Solitude in Madness

1. Shock and Awe
2. Into Oblivion
3. Despair
4. Incineration of the Gods
5. Sanctification Denied
6. And Satan Wept
7. Emptiness
8. Final Declaration
9. Dancing in the Slaughterhouse
10. Stigma of Divinity
11. Bones

‘Solitude in Madness’ will hit the shops both in physical and digital format on 1st May 2020 via Nuclear Blast Records.

For further details visit:
https://vader-band.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vader

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