Skeletonwitch have soared up the Billboard charts with the release of their scorching new album Devouring Radiant Light, making their first week entrance at the following positions: 

#3 Current Hard Music Albums
#6 Record Label Independent Current Albums
#11 Current Rock Albums
#34 Current Digital Albums
#37 Top Current Albums
#39 Digital Albums
#46 Billboard Top Albums
#33 UK Official Charts Rock and Metal

Their impressive positions on the Top 200, Hard Rock Albums, and Independent Albums charts were all the highest debuts of the band’s career. While simultaneously scaling up the charts; the blackened metal powerhouse continue heating up in the press as praise and accolades pour in nonstop from media worldwide.

Draped with and adorned in the musical lexicon of black metal, on Devouring Radiant Light, Skeletonwitch incorporate Bergtatt-era Ulver, tremolo sky-ride leads and a strong atmospheric influence into their ever evolving blackened thrash attack. Devouring Radiant Light was produced by Kurt Ballou, mixed by Fredrik Nordström, and mastered by Brad Boatright.

Devouring Radiant Light tracklisting:

"Fen Of Shadows"
"Where Paradise Fades"
"Temple Of The Sun"
"Devouring Radiant Light"
"The Luminous Sky"
"The Vault"
"Carnarium Eternal"
"Sacred Soil"

"Fen Of Shadows" /  "Where Paradise Fades" / "Temple Of The Sun":

Skeletonwitch and German black/doom/punk chimera Mantar are stoked to announce that they will be hitting the UK and Europe this winter for a co-headline run. Support will come from Belgium thrash outfit Evil Invaders and German deathers Deathrite. Tickets will go on sale Friday July 6th at 10 AM, BST.

Dates:

November
14 - Pumpehuset - Copenhagen, Denmark
15 - Krosset - Oslo, Norway
16 - Sticky Fingers - Gothenburg, Sweden
17 - Markthalle - Hamburg, Germany
19 - Musikzentrum - Hannover, Germany
20 - Hirsch - Nürnberg, Germany
21 - Turock - Essen, Germany
22 - Dynamo - Zürich, Switzerland
23 - KJH Hallschlag - Stuttgart, Germany
24 - Rockhouse - Salzburg, Austria
26 - Backstage - München, Germany
27 - Arena - Wien, Austria
28 - Explosiv - Graz, Austria
29 - Nova Chmelnice - Prague, Czech Republic
30 - UT Connewitz - Leipzig, Germany

December
1 - SO 36 - Berlin, Germany
2 - Biebob - Vosselaar, Belgium
4 - Rebellion - Manchester, UK
5 - Mama Roux´s - Birmingham, UK
6 - Underworld - London, UK
7 - Petit Bain - Paris, France
8 - Schlachthof - Wiesbaden, Germany
9 - Baroeg - Rotterdam, Netherlands

(Photo - Nico Poalillo)