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The UK based black metal band Written In Torment will soon release its fourth album, Black Command, via Purity Through Fire on CD and vinyl LP formats. The CD version will be released on 4 July, while the vinyl will follow later this year. The band has recently revealed the first track from the upcoming album - "Contra Passo", available in the player below.
Hailing from the oft-overlooked UK black metal scene, Written In Torment has been patiently perfecting its craft for nearly 20 years now. A demo and EP followed in quick succession in 2006, followed by a hiatus until 2013, when the debut album, Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes, was released. Written In Torment, as ever, is helmed by main man Leviathan, and he kept apace with a split in 2014, a demo in 2015, and then two full-lengths, Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum and Maledictus Dies Illa, in 2017 and 2019.
And now, at long last, Written In Torment delivers its masterwork: Black Command. Presciently titled, Black Command finds Leviathan hitting a fever pitch of creativity, recasting old ghosts of '90s epic/melodic black metal - Throne Of Ahaz, Abyssos, Midvinter, Prophanity, and Amsvartner, among others - into dazzling new shapes. Rest assured, in word and deed is Black Command black metal to the hilt, but by no means does its strident traditionalism hinder it, in the least. Ripping chops and deft textural layering take centre stage across the album's six-song/41-minute runtime, creating a compact canvas that's somehow vast, which is to say nothing of the well-timed incorporation of acoustic guitars and cinematic synths. All this filtered into a thematic framework focusing on the life and crimes of Jonathan Martin, the infamous arsonist of the Minster Cathedral in York. Joining Leviathan here - and no doubt adding further fuel to the fire - are Prometheus on lead guitars and keyboards and drummer Storm (Blasphemer, ex-Bal-Sagoth, ex-My Dying Bride).
Graced with austere-yet-gorgeous artwork courtesy of Andrej Bartulović, Black Command should herald the grand arrival of Written In Torment! Link
Black Command tracklist:
1. Anger Road
2. Contra Passo
3. The Allure of the Dark
4. Mors Ultima
5. Black Command
6. Dies Irae
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