Leaders and Titans of Symphonic Black Metal, England’s HECATE ENTHRONED return with a new, vicious single off their upcoming seventh studio full-length album, “The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried”, releasing on May 29th via M-Theory Audio.

‘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. The  cover artwork was crafted by Erskine Designs (Inanimate Existence, Bleed The Sky).

The band shares about the album: “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.”

Pre-orders: https://www.m-theoryaudio.com/store

Tracklist:
1.Adar Rhiannon 00:43
2.Spirits Stir Within Our Ancestors Tombs 08:10
3.The Arcane Golem 06:14
4.Steed of the Still Water 07:09
5.Pwca 06:07
6.Deathless in the Dryad Glade 06:37
7.A Gallery of Rotting Portraits 04:40
8.The Boreal Monastery 07:03
9.Into a Vale of Endless Snow 07:10

Follow the premiere of   the track “Gallery of Rotten Portraits” below:

“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.” – bassist Dylan Hughes.

One of the UK underground’s longest-running and most respected acts, HECATE ENTHRONED has been praised by the likes of Terrorizer for their “mixture of death metal aggression with black metal atmosphere” while New Noise Magazine declares them “an absolute must for fans of extreme gothic metal.” Originally co-founded in Wales by guitarist Nigel Dennen in the mid-1990s, the band is dedicated to delivering their own brand of evil metal with little regard to politics or the trends of popular demand. The group’s 1997 full-length, the Andy Sneap-produced ‘The Slaughter Of Innocence, A Requiem For The Mighty’ (Blackend Records), was a seminal release in the then-burgeoning orchestral black metal movement, and since then, five more studio outputs including their M-Theory Audio debut in 2019 with the ‘Embrace Of The Godless Aeon’ (HECATE ENTHRONED’s first recording with vocalist Joe Stamps) and numerous live performances have firmly established the band as one of extreme metal’s most important voices.

HECATE ENTHRONED is:
Joe Stamps – Vocals
Nige Dennan – guitar
Andy Milnes – guitar
Dylan Hughes – bass
Pete White – piano/keyboards
Matt Holmes – drums

For more info:
www.m-theoryaudio.com
www.facebook.com/hecateenthroned
www.instagram.com/hecateenthronedofficial
https://hecateenthroned.bandcamp.com