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UK-based coven CRAVEN IDOL will unleash their debut full-length,
Towards Eschaton, on October 15th through Dark Descent Records.
The album will be made available on digital, CD and vinyl formats.
Exploring the depths of the subterranean caverns in which they dwell,
CRAVEN IDOL have reached beyond their blackened thrash roots by
incorporating elements of doom, traditional heavy metal and classic death.
The result is eight incantations of extreme metal as it was known in the days
before the subgenre pigeonholing and trend-fucking allegiance to scenes.
Towards Eschaton, which features artwork by Paolo Girardi, represents the
culmination of CRAVEN IDOL’s dark visions to date. A coalescing of the
band’s new and older material results in a mercurial assault, but one whose
constituent parts each read from the same bloodied hymn sheet. Thematically
the album deals primarily with the rotten fabric of religion and the depraved
notions birthed upon its gilded altars. Musically the record owes fealty to the
maligned era in which black and death metal juddered into unlife, born dead
in cemeteries haunted by relentless riffs and the screams of the hellbound.
The beasts of Bathory, Possessed, Venom, Absu, Candlemass, Sarcofago,
Belial, Manilla Road, Gospel Of The Horns, Mercyful Fate,
Hobbs Angel Of Death, Inquisition, Samael and Autopsy have all left
their mark on Towards Eschaton.
Album track “To Summon Mayrion” is currently streaming at this location.
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