Official press release:
Leaders and titans of symphonic black metal, Britain’s Hecate Enthroned return seven years since the release of the group’s last album with a new, vicious single! Listen to new single “Gallery of Rotting Portraits” via all digital platforms, or watch the lyric video (created by Jack Maguire from artwork by Erskine Designs) below.
Bassist Dylan Hughes explains of the single:
“The single takes its name from the morbid preservation of the peat bogs, where bodies like the Lindow Man have rested for centuries. ‘A Gallery of Rotting Portraits’ uses these ‘pagan sacrifices’ as a metaphor for obsolete devotion. It captures the jarring disconnect of unearthing a ritualized 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” gives us the first glimpse of the much anticipated new Hecate Enthroned album The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried to be released May 29 on Digipak CD, limited-edition colored vinyl including 250 Boreal Light (EU) and 250 Draconic Vision (US) variants, and digital. Also pre-order package available with exclusive merch design. Pre-Order now at www.M-TheoryAudio.com/store and Bandcamp.
The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried is once again produced by Hecate Enthroned and Dan Abela (Akercocke, Bleed From Within, Annal Nathrakh), who also mixed/mastered the album with cover art created by Erskine Designs (Inanimate Existence, Bleed The Sky).
Regarding the new Hecate Enthroned album Dylan continues:
“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.”
The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried track listing:
- “Adar Rhiannon”
- “Spirits Stir Within Our Ancestors Tombs”
- “The Arcane Golem”
- “Steed of the Still Water”
- “Pwca”
- “Deathless in the Dryad Glade”
- “A Gallery of Rotting Portraits”
- “The Boreal Monastery”
- “Into a Vale of Endless Snow”
