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Chaos Invocation's fourth album, Devil, Stone & Man, is set for release on 24 March via W.T.C. Productions. The first revealed track from the upcoming album, "Strike Of The Dominator's Fist", awaits you in the player below.
By now, Chaos Invocation should require little introduction. Formed in 2004 and releasing three increasingly celebrated full-lengths via W.T.C., Chaos Invocation has steadily become a pillar of Germany's long-potent black metal underground. Their last album, 2018's Reaping Season, Bloodshed Beyond, was an iron-fisted smash through more dynamic corridors, with their sinuous and serpentine black metal taking on a more heightened (but no less muscular) melodic aspect. As the world has fully turned to shit, Chaos Invocation thus covers that iron fist with grime unfathomably dark and dreadful. Indeed, Devil, Stone & Man is the record deserving of these times - or rather, vice versa.
Perhaps as a counterreaction or at least parallel development to that dynamic predecessor, Devil, Stone & Man is inarguably Chaos Invocation's most direct and aggressive album to date, and one gives horrific power through its massive and molten production, which handily challenges those naysayers who claim true black metal can't palatably possess "professional" recording. Its ultraviolence twists and turns but ever moves forward, downward, diving across dazzling depths and heights with the ease of masters. Truly, Chaos Invocation's already-sturdy songwriting has been given an uptick in detail and nuance here, sounding sweeping and ceremonial as it does teeth-gnashingly harsh and harrowing. A whirlwind, a vortex, both and beyond: Chaos Invocation have been qualified as these before, but now one can add world-eating dreadnought to that list, as well, with Devil, Stone & Man. Link
Devil, Stone & Man tracklist:
1. Strike Of The Dominator's Fist
2. A Stranger's Pale Hand
3. Diabolical Hammer
4. Odonata Fields
5. Where We Have Taken The Cross
6. Triple Fire
7. Curses Upon You
8. The Revolting Abyss
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