Leaders and titans of symphonic black metal, Britain's Hecate Enthroned return after seven years since the release of their last album with a vicious new single, "Gallery Of Rotting Portraits", accompanied by a lyric video created by Jack Maguire using artwork by Erskine Designs.

"The single takes its name from the morbid preservation of the peat bogs, where bodies like the Lindow Man have rested for centuries", explains bassist Dylan Hughes. "'A Gallery Of Rotting Portraits' uses these 'pagan sacrifices' as a metaphor for obsolete devotion. It captures the jarring disconnect of unearthing a ritualised past only to find it stripped of its power. The song confronts the cold reality that while the bodies remain, the spirits and superstitions that put them there have long since rotted away, leaving us in a world devoid of its ancient magic."

"Gallery Of Rotting Portraits" offers the first glimpse of the highly anticipated new Hecate Enthroned album, The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried, due for release on 29 May via M-Theory Audio on Digipak CD, limited-edition coloured vinyl—250 Boreal Light (EU) and 250 Draconic Vision (US) variants—and digital formats.

The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried was produced by Hecate Enthroned and Dan Abela (Akercocke, Bleed From Within, Anaal Nathrakh), who also handled mixing and mastering, with Erskine Designs (Inanimate Existence, Bleed The Sky) creating the cover art.

Speaking about the new album, Dylan adds: "Our first release since 2019, these are huge, epic, hard-hitting songs carved in the traditional Hecate Enthroned way with a menacing veil delivered with a crisp punch. Lyrically based around ancient British myths and legends". Link