Despite its fiery and contentious spirit, black metal can get stuck in its own ways. But while they emerged from a mystic scene that’s familiar to the well-initiated, Wrath of Logarius aren’t bound by black metal’s strict sense of tradition.
The band’s upcoming debut album officially announces a new realm for the subgenre: formless black metal. Much like their notoriously hard-to-beat namesake, which approach they take in launching their attack is impossible to predict. But no matter what skeletal form they assume, one thing is clear: Crown of Mortis pronounces Wrath of Logarius as unflinching kings of black metal’s new realm.
Crown of Mortis comes out April 4 on Season of Mist.
Watch the commanding video for the album’s shape-shifting lead single “Keeper of the Spectral Legion”.
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Wrath of Logarius hail from the misty forests of Northern California, but it’s fitting that whispers of their supremacy started by spreading through the digital underground. The band’s introductory EP infected the world of extreme metal like a bloodborne virus.
“To these ears, I hear Cascadian black metal mixed with a blackened form of tech death, with some stunningly beautiful melodic work”, New Noise wrote about Necrotic Assimilation. “All that is to say, good luck figuring out Wrath of Logarius, and that’s the point”.
On Crown of Mortis, the legend behind Wrath of Logarius has only grown. The album follows in the wake of the band’s viral takeover; each song serves the larger narrative of an accursed king with its lead single rolling out the blood red carpet for his army of the dead.
“Ancient – Power – Cosmic – Legion“, Noctifier growls during the song’s punchy, bone-crushing chorus before his gutturals climb into throat-scraped agony.
Wrath of Logarius summons the full force of their signature formless style on “Keeper of the Spectral Legion”. After another studio ritual at Rapture Recordings with producer Cody Fuentes, the band have leveled up in brute strength and hair-raising skill. Lord Marco’s flying fingers still pound with technical precession while Urath and Vastador churn chunky death metal riffs into blackened reams of shredding melodic dissonance.
More praise for Wrath of Logarius
“Lord Marco’s drum work is ridiculous here and is almost making my vision vibrate” – Teeth of the Divine
“Progressive-ish, melodic death metal-infused black metal that takes some time to slow things down with some lurching doom from time to time…It certainly kept me guessing” – Metal Injection
“…eerie, melodic, haunting and layered. But they aren’t afraid to incorporate other elements, even flirting with brutal death metal and slam in moments” – MetalSucks
