Candlelight Records will soon release UK extreme metallers ANAAL NATHRAKH's new album, Passion. Check out the album artwork below:

Anaal Nathrakh was created for one purpose - to be the soundtrack for armageddon, the audial essence of evil, hatred and violence, the true spirit of necro taken to its musical extremes. Since being founded in 1999, the band has gained a reputation for embodying precisely these things, with a history including not only the release of four albums and an EP to rapturous acclaim, but collaborations with such legendary figures as Attila Csihar (MAYHEM), Shane Embury and Danny Herrera (NAPALM DEATH), Nick Barker (TESTAMENT, DIMMU BORGIR), Joe Horvath (CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN), Sethlans Teitan (WATAIN) and so on. This, alongside appearing on BBC Radio 1 at the personal behest of sadly missed icon John Peel, headlining a stage at the renowned cult Inferno Festival in Norway as their debut international live appearance, countless placings in ‘best album of the year’ polls and album of the month awards in the press and cover appearances on leading magazines… Anaal Nathrakh’s status as one of the leading lights in extreme metal is undeniable.

Hallmarked by breathtaking musical ferocity, inventiveness and breadth, married with a mercurial, intensely misanthropic and sharp intelligence, Anaal Nathrakh’s sound is imbued with a palpable sense of menace that is virtually unmatched in metal.

For 2011, the band present the digested and re-vomited results of an 18-month journey through slings, arrows and outrageous misfortune. Intended in the most scourging sense of the word, Passion is an encoded vision of agony; desolation taken as the inspiration for incalculable rage. This is only abetted by contributions of twisted misanthropy from Rainer Landfermann (PAVOR, BETHLEHEM), Alan Dubin (KHANATE, GNAW, etc) and the utter blackness of Gnaw Their Tongues. Glorying in their Pyrrhic epiphanies, Anaal Nathrakh have developed a deeper understanding of horror and Passion is the focused, distilled and above all bleakly triumphant result.

A new e-card for the album, including a stream of the track 'Volenti Non Fit Iniuria', can be found at this location.

Complete album details to follow.

Anaal Nathrakh recently announced the re-release of the album Total Fucking Necro via FETO Records on March 21st as a Digipak. The album is a compilation of tracks spanning two early demos, previously released on Rage Of Achilles Records in 2002. This re-release will be limited to 500 copies available exclusively via FETO Records.

FETO Records founder and Anaal Nathrakh’s musical polymath Mick Kenney comments: “We get asked by fans all the time online and at gigs whether we’ll re-release this, so we decided it was time to give them what they wanted”.

Preorders are available here.

Tracklisting is as follows:

‘Anaal Nathrakh’

‘Necrodeath’

‘Ice Blasting Storm Winds’

‘Carnage’ (Mayhem cover)

‘The Supreme Necrotic Audnance’

‘Satanarchist’

‘L.E.T.H.A.L. Diabolic’

‘De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas’ (Mayhem cover)

‘The Technogoat’

‘Necrogeddon’