Hailing from Texas, the melodic black metallers Necrofier reveal  their  third full-length offering, “Transcend into Oblivion”, out today via Metal Blade Records (http://www.metalblade.com/necrofier).

NECROFIER are rewriting the rulebook in their own blood. Since 2018, the quartet has applied a spicy Texan intensity to the icy atmospheres of mid-’90s Norway, and Transcend Into Oblivion deploys their modus operandi with more power, conviction, and ingenuity than ever before. Here NECROFIER crafts a modern classic of the form, where tempestuous squalls of extremity are punctuated by sinister, melancholic, otherworldly melodies, twinkling in the gloom like will-o’-the-wisps on a black night.

“This album really ended up where I always wanted us to go,” vocalist/guitarist Bakka reflects. “It also had me digging deeper into the journey, into myself and basically everything to get it here. I felt the way the record makes you sound. Sometimes surrounded in chaos and sometimes in moments of accession. I really like what we did on the previous album, but it doesn’t compare to what we have accomplished on the new one.”

While 2023’s Burning Shadows In The Southern Night was a redoubtable beast, edging NECROFIER closer to a radiant apex, as its name suggests, Transcend Into Oblivion surpasses their previous work and elevates the band to a higher plateau. Themes and lyrics are oppressively dark and conceptually linked with the number three being especially significant on this third LP, a three-act structure comprising three three-part suites, separated by three instrumentals.

“The other records have different concepts, but they weren’t drawn out in one big piece like the new one,” says Bakka. “From the creation, the record is based on a Luciferian Dark Night Of The Soul. ‘Fires Of The Apocalypse Light My Path’ is the awakening. The first three songs are experiences and dreams that were happening as this change began, and I questioned everything I was doing. It starts feeling as though a new fire has been lit, but it grows dark as we venture into the second act, ‘Servants Of Darkness Guide My Way.’ This is the struggle and torment that comes along with the awakening. Realizing things from the past are no longer true and you see the world in a different way, and it isn’t easy. This leads into Act III, ‘Horns Of Destruction Lift My Blade.’ This is the rebirth or accession. You have been transformed; you are not who you were before. Everything has changed, you see the world differently and you take what is yours.”

Tracklist:
1.Fires of the Apocalypse, Light My Path I
2.Fires of the Apocalypse, Light My Path II
3.Fires of the Apocalypse, Light My Path III
4.Behold, the Birth of Ascension
5.Servants of Darkness, Guide My Way I
6.Servants of Darkness, Guide My Way II
7.Servants of Darkness, Guide My Way III
8.Mystical Creation of Enlightenment
9.Horns of Destruction, Lift My Blade I
10.Horns of Destruction, Lift My Blade II
11.Horns of Destruction, Lift My Blade III
12.Toward the Necrofier

Delve into the album below: