THE HOWLING WIND – UNEARTHLY TRANCE/THRALLDOM Mastermind Completes Debut Album, New MP3 Posted, Artwork/Tracklisting Revealed
August 13, 2007, 17 years ago
THE HOWLING WIND, the post-THRALLDOM venture conjured up by Killusion (also the mastermind of Relapse Records recording artists UNEARTHLY TRANCE) have completed work on their debut album, entitled Pestilence & Peril. Taking off where Thralldom's swansong (A Shaman Steering The Vessel Of Vastness) left off, The Howling Wind sees Killusion take his black metal pedigree to a new level of polarization. In what will stand as one of the most prominent U.S. black metal albums to be released this year, Pestilence & Peril sees Killusion (along with drummer Parasitus Nex) revive the old-school ways of pure and raw black metal, the way it must be done through riffs of dirge-like hypnosis, old-school HELLHAMMER-ish/Morbid Tales era CELTIC FROST histrionics, and virulent punishing vibes that conjure up the aura of classic DARKTHRONE. Thematically, Pestilence & Peril will indeed touch upon such themes as the apocalypse and the inevitable spiritual downfall and social decay in the state of America today, all told from an occult oriented perspective.
To be released via Profound Lore Records on October 30th, the tracklisting for Pestilence & Peril goes as follows: 'Projections', 'Sin Continuum', 'Virulence 33', 'Southaven', 'Stealth Eugenics', 'Forced Into The Pits Of Technology', 'Deadlands', 'The Inevitable Conclusion'.
An exclusive MP3 for the track ‘Virulence 33’ can be found at the Profound Lore MP3 section by clicking here.
For more info on The Howling Wind, please go to www.myspace.com/thehowlingwind.
