The USA-based black metal band Mythraeum has presented the first single and lyric video, "Skies Torn Asunder", from its forthcoming debut full-length, planned for an early summer release.

"This track will definitely be a favorite for fans of epic metal", boldly claims Mythraeum. "It takes the melodic, fast-paced riffing style of acts such as Wintersun and Kalmah and gives it a darker, more aggressive edge. A 'get-up-and-go' type song that is sure to get the pit moving."

"Skies Torn Asunder" is complemented by a lyric video created by Raf Ortega (Hecate Enthroned, The Absence, Helsott).

The band's proper features a crushing and technical rhythm section, folky melodies, shreddy guitar wizardry and gut-wrenching vocals. Watch for more news, music and pre-order soon.

Formed a few years back, Mythraeum spawned from the mind of guitarist Wraith (Alonzo Larios), who assembled some of San Diego's finest metal musicians who shared the same spark of mysticism and misanthropic musings which befell the black metal scene in Scandinavia several decades earlier. These young musicians had ambitions of crafting a brand of black metal that dared to push the musical boundaries by blending crushing heaviness with harrowing technicality and ethereal melodies in an alchemical process which weaved esoteric myths of nature, gods, love, hate, death, and rebirth. Link