The wait is finally over! On October 31st, Dutch epic black/death metal band Slechtvalk will unleash their new album, At Death’s Gate, via MDD Records. The album, featuring 9 tracks with nearly an hour of playing time, promises to be a powerful follow-up to their 2016 release, Where Wandering Shadows and Mists Collide.
Slechtvalk have been making their mark on the European metal scene since 1999 and have been delighting fans of symphonic, folk, black and Viking death metal for the past 25 years. While some bands lose their bite over the years, Slechtvalk present themselves more extreme and brutal than ever before on their sixth longplayer “At Death’s Gate”.
Fans of the band, who had to wait eight years for a follow-up to “Where Wandering Shadows and Mists Collide” (review), will be delighted with “At Death’s Gate”. The Dutchmen create a dense, dark atmosphere with impressive precision, one moment creating a melodic tapestry of sound and the next bludgeoning everything to the ground.
The 9 songs, which can perhaps best be described as “brutal, epic black/death metal”, were produced, mixed and mastered under the direction of Lasse Lammert at LSD Studio (Wind Rose, Alestorm, Strydegor, etc.). The cover artwork was created by Mark Erskine.
Tracklist:
- Paralysed By Fear (4:52)
- At Death’s Gate (8:32)
- The White Raven (5:39)
- Fight Till The End (4:44)
- Death (5:51)
- Night Of The Locusts (5:54)
- Enshrouded (8:55)
- The Destroyer (5:05)
- Heritage (8:14)
Total Running time: 0:57:50
Preorder: MDD / Nordic Mission
Lyric video for Paralysed By Fear
Live Dates
November 9th | Blast Of Eternity, Heilbronn, DE
November 16th | Db, Utrecht, NL
SLECHTVALK Online
Website: http://www.slechtvalk.com/
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