In late 2022, Danish epic doomers Altar Of Oblivion signed a deal with From The Vaults and last year released the Burning Memories EP, serving as an appetizer for their upcoming fourth full-length, The Cesspit Of Divine Decay, slated for release on 28 June. Today, the band presented the first album's single and video, "Nothing Grows From Hallowed Ground".
The Cesspit Of Divine Decay is a concept album based on the diary of guitarist Martin Meyer Sparvath's maternal great-grandfather Jesper Wilhem Meyer, who reluctantly fought for the German Empire during The Great War (1914-1918).
Preparations for this aural endeavour began in 2005 when the band tracked a demo version of what years later would morph into the now-completed album, which was supposed to be the debut full-length of the early duo incarnation of the band. This album contains some of the band's first-ever creations, and, in many ways, it can be regarded as some sort of Altar Of Oblivion prototype, bringing forth and spewing out their darkest and most traditional epic doom work to date.
During and since the pandemic, Altar Of Oblivion has been in recording mode, finishing both new and old stuff, including two full-lengths, two EPs and an acoustic album, enabling the band to take a well-deserved studio break to focus on live shows from now on. Several gigs have been confirmed for 2024, and the collective is now looking forward to hitting the stage again, heavier, older and more invigorated than ever. Time will tell if playing live is the right cure for a severe case of discoloured studio tan. Link
The Cesspit Of Divine Decay tracklist:
01. Nothing Grows From Hallowed Ground
02. The Fallacy
03. Ghosts In The Trenches
04. Mark Of The Dead
05. Altar Of Oblivion
06. The Night They Came
07. Silent Pain
08. Damnation
09. In The Cesspit Of Divine Decay
10. Wind Among Waves
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