Portuguese black metal duo Everto Signum has revealed a new track, "Colossus" - accompanied by a striking, epic and powerful avalanche lyric video - from its highly anticipated second album, Beastiary, set for release on 1 November via Monumental Rex.

Everto Signum is a black metal act embodied by Nekruss and  Æminus, hailing from the inner realms of Portugal. Having released the debut full-length, Enneachotomy, in 2012 and the EP, Synergy, in 2014, the band's creative duo focused on other music projects, namely Carma and Lacrau.

After ten years of silence, Everto Signum skulks out of chasmic caverns to unleash its brand new creation, Beastiary - a concept album inspired by the destructive powers of Nature. The band stays true to its elemental background by writing an immersive story that guides the listener through a chain reaction of natural disasters. These calamities are beastialized - manifested as wild, uncontrollable beasts exhibiting intrinsic animalistic shapes, traits and behaviours. The plot consists of seven chapters, each consisting of a contextual introduction that describes the scenery and sets the mood for the destruction to come and an interpretation of the actual cataclysm. Written in English, the expressively poetic lyrical narrative portrays a journey from an ice-covered mountaintop through a valley, down to the depths of a meromictic lake and finally into a perennial forest to witness the dreadful wrath of ancient forces.

To concretize this work, Everto Signum synergized with Diogo Mota, best known as the drummer of Gaerea, who infused the album with much energy and vigour. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nekruss, Beastiary is a hostile soundscape lasting over 50 minutes. Seven tracks build upon the musical ideas set by the latest EP, expanding and developing those into a more sophisticated form through the band's signature "elemental black metal", this time utterly imbued with the brutality of death metal. Sublimely enriched with progressive structures, synthesizer-led passages, ambient sections and many other captivating elements coming from a vast range of influences such as prog rock, folk, dungeon synth and even new-age music, Beastiary abounds with furiously melodic and potent guitar riffage, fierce and technical drumming, heavy pounding bass lines, and viciously varied extreme vocals. The production is aggressive, massive and multilayered, perfectly fitting the epic theme of the album and keeping the listener on the edge throughout the entire journey. Link