Dutch blackened death doom metallers, Soulburn, will release their third studio album, Earthless Pagan Spirit, on November 18th via Century Media Records. The album’s opening track, “Where Splendid Corpses Are Towering Towards The Sun”, is streaming below.

Vocalist/bassist Twan van Geel checked in with the following comment about the track: “We are proud to present you the opening track from our upcoming album Earthless Pagan Spirit. This song is a classic ode to the supremacy of the blackest of metal. “Where Splendid Corpses Are Towering Towards The Sun” ravishes straight through the high hopes of a self-proclaimed righteous people and their plastic vanity. And at the triumph of their death, scorched by the sun of their own divinity, in the serene mist from their ashen skulls, we dance.”

Following up 2014’s The Suffocating Darkness effort, the new album was recorded in The Netherlands at Harrow Studio as well as Double Noise Studio and then mixed and mastered by Magnus "Devo" Andersson at Endarker Studio Sweden (Marduk, Ofermod).

Tracklisting:

“Where Splendid Corpses Are Towering Towards The Sun”
“The Blood Ascendant”
“Howling At The Heart Of Death”
“As Cold As Heavens Slain”
“Withering Nights”
“The Torch”
“Spirited Asunder”
“Diary Of A Reaper”

“Where Splendid Corpses Are Towering Towards The Sun”:

The album’s initial CD pressing comes packaged in a slipcase and contains the bonus track “The Last Monument Of God”. Furthermore the album will also be available as Gatefold LP on 180gr. vinyl as either black or strictly limited golden (100x via CM Webshop) or clear (200x via CM Distro) colour editions and of course as Digital Download.
 
The European pre-sale for the physical formats of Earthless Pagan Spirit starts today via CM Distro here.

Soulburn live:

November
19 - Koblenz, Germany - Florinsmarkt

December
11 - Zaandam, The Netherlands - De Flux / DocFest
16 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands - Eindhoven Metal Meeting

February
5 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Baroeg

March
11 - Beek en Donk, The Netherlands - Fortress Fest

More dates to be announced soon.
 
Soulburn lineup:

Twan van Geel - vocals/bass
Remco Kreft - guitar
Eric Daniels - guitar
Bob Bagchus - drums

(Photo - Dennis Wassenburg)