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Dark electronic artist and recent Metal Blade Records signees, Gost, has just unleashed the first single, the record's title track, and its accompanying video (which includes intro track, "Judgement"), from its upcoming thundering thirteen-track full-length, Prophecy, set for release on 8 March 2024.
Lollar on the title track: "With 'Prophecy', I wanted to revisit some of the sounds of Possessor. Rather than simply replicate those sounds I expanded upon them. I pushed the saturation and compression to their literal limits, resulting in some of the heaviest sounds I have yet to produce. I wanted to combine some classic EBM elements with my digital metal sound as well. This EBM influence can be heard throughout 'Prophecy'. Horror has been a huge aspect of my sound since day one and that theme is ever present on 'Prophecy', through ratcheting strings and dreadful choir lines. 'Prophecy' expounds on the slasherwave genre I originally created with Behemoth".
Prophecy, Gost's sixth full-length, is unquestionably its most exhilarating and dangerous-sounding work - perfectly reflecting the horror and grim anxieties of a world beset with religious and political overreach, and progress, "being rolled back to the fucking 1950s".
"It's about an imaginative fall of the Western civilization, the biblical end of the world - the rise of Satan and Armageddon", says Lollar. "In America, there's been a big rise of scared, reactive Christianity again, and almost like a re-emergence of the Satanic Panic. So it felt like an appropriate time to bring Satan back into things."
Recorded alone in Texas during a burst of creativity at the end of 2022, Prophecy is the perfect vessel for such things. Following the experimentation and more melodic touches of 2019's Valediction, Lollar says it also acts as something of a return to older roots, to recapture the spirit of Gost.
"When Valediction came out, COVID hit, and I guess people weren't so into art while the world was on its knees", he says. "I also wanted to reconnect with some of my older fans who maybe didn't feel that album so much. I wanted to go back in time and bring some of the older shit back, some of the older sounds."
Now, "Judgment" / "Prophecy"... Link
Prophecy tracklist:
01. Judgment
02. Prophecy
03. Death In Bloom
04. Deceiver
05. Obituary
06. Temple Of Tears
07. Decadent Decay
08. Widow Song
09. Golgotha
10. Digital Death
11. Shelter
12. Through The Water
13. Leviathan
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