THE VOID JOURNAL | Acolythus reveal their debut offering, “Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stars”

Finnish black metallers Acolythus present their debut album – “Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stars”, in its entirety. The offering is about to be officially released on May 8th via Inverse Records. All music for the album was mixed and mastered by Teemu Leskinen, while the striking album cover art was crafted by Matias Stenman.

Acolythus is a project strongly rooted in traditional black metal, boasting straightforward aggression coupled with a recognizable Finnish melodic approach to the genre. Featuring members from Convulse, Sargassus and Jotungrav, the band was born as an outlet for the musicians’ black metal aspirations. After the inspiration struck, ‘Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stars’ was written and recorded in a matter of weeks. The album aims at conveying the aggression and feeling behind the music in its purest form. Hence in Acolythus’ music, the listener will only hear real instruments being played by real people – free of all edits and tricks that dominate the modern metal sound. Thematically Acolythus centers itself around esoteric and occult knowledge, as well as a somewhat misanthropic and post-apocalyptic focus on humanity. Much of the inspiration from which the music is born out of can be traced to the mystical worldbuilding and wordweaving of bands such as Alghazanth, Immortal and Emperor, to name a few. In short, Acolythus provides the listener with poetic hymns and sermons of woe, accompanied by blazing and ice-cold riffs in the most authentic way black metal should be performed in.

Tracklist:
1.Among Ruins Forlorn
2.Scholars of Empires Beyond
3.As the Slaughtered Wizards Reincarnate
4.Frozen Desolate Warfields
5.Vacuous Gods of the Abyss
6.Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stars
7.In the Fading Light of Burning Cathedrals

Delve into the album below: