Hailing from Italy, Imbolc unveil  their forthcoming third full-length offering, “Sette Cornici di Purificazione”, in its entirety. The album is about  to be released on February 27th by Masked Dead Records. Pre-orders are still open here: www.maskeddeadrecords.com. The title’s cover artwork was crafted by Maira Pedroni and is inspired by the film “The Masque of the Red Death” (1964, Roger Corman).

As it might become obvious while you’re listening to their music, IMBOLC’s line-up features members of the notable occult black metal band DARKEND, along with relevant italian death metal bands such as Demiurgon and Unbirth. Their third album “Sette Cornici di Purificazione” displays a sound and style that ranges from classic up-tempo melodic black metal to passages featuring classical-acoustic guitars, very often supported by synths inspired by ’70s and ’90s horror films, with a surprising result of various influences in a pretty much old school formula.

The riffing is still a powerful backbone of the IMBOLC sound, supported by a notable melancholy and, musically speaking, a mixture of second-wave melodic black metal and post-black metal in the vein of Agalloch and first-era Satyricon. The themes are once again centered on inner suffering, the discomfort of everyday life and the worthlessness of human beings, once again with references to the old horror movies.

Tracklist:
1.Chasmigration
2.Enigmalife
3.Monolith – Where Nails are Condemned to Carve
4.Architecture of Suicide
5.Slashed and Buried
6.No Peace for the Living
7.In the Reign of Light only Darkness could be

Listen  below: