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Dutch black metallers Hagetisse have unleashed a new track - "Als de pijn dicteert" - the second to be revealed from the band's forthcoming sixth album, De Verminkte stilte van het zijn, set for release on 14 October via Babylon Doom Cult Records.
Hagetisse is the work of Maurice de Jong, insanely prolific main man of Gnaw Their Tongues, De Magia Veterum, Cloak Of Altering, Golden Ashes, The Sombre, and countless others. With the sixth album De Verminkte stilte van het zijn, de Jong returns Hagetisse to a black metal sound simultaneously more traditional and original. With the title translating to English as "The Mutilated Silence Of Being," De Verminkte stilte van het zijn is the first Hagetisse album entirely in Dutch. The lyrics deal with existential dread, death, religion, grief, and devastation, and the album has thus become a very personal album for de Jong. Hiding in plain sight is the struggle with someone's past in relation to the here and now, and musically, Hagetisse makes this manifest with a richly ripp(l)ing melodicism that's at once sorrowful and strident. The songwriting subsequently sees de Jong at his most straightforward and to-the-point, fearing not the often-thorny catchphrase of "catchiness" nor sacrificing any aggression in the face of that overt melodicism. As such, de Jong considers this album a new height in his songwriting and lyrical skills, and he is not wrong: "mature" is a word that comes to mind, as does timeless. Hail ancient black metal!
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