Though they emerged from a misty scene that’s familiar to the corpse paint initiate, Wrath of Logarius aren’t bound by black metal’s strict sense of traditions. Their upcoming debut Crown of Mortis ushers in a new realm for the underground: formless black metal. On the album’s latest single “Long Dead the King”, the skeletal band reveal the full reign of their powers.
Watch the all-powerful lyric video for “Long Dead the King”.
https://youtu.be/T8omv8GFwjo?si=BB3xD_h3u39WiklX
Crown of Mortis comes out April 4 on Season of Mist.
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Wrath of Logarius hail from deep within the redwood forests of Northern California, but it’s fitting that the band’s formless spell on black metal first caught wind amongst the digital underground. After all, the band are named after a notoriously shifty video game dungeon lord. Crown of Mortis expands upon the Bloodborne lore teased by their ascendant EP. Each song twists into a uniquely horrifying tale that serves the larger plot of its accursed king.
“Ruler of the atmospheric dread“, Noctifer pronounces with a blackened rasp. While draped in gloom, Wrath of Logarius’ new single doesn’t unfold at a stately pace. “Long Dead the King” marches to the blistering pace set by Lord Marco’s punishingly precise blast beats.
Where the last single from Crown of Mortis bent the clearly defined subworlds of black metal into a swirling, moonlit void, “Long Dead the King” serves as living proof that Wrath of Logarius’ formless reign extends across the world of extreme metal. Strega axemen Urath and Vastrator shred the line between hellishly cold tremolo picking and the eternal fires of melodic dissonance, only to summon the album’s most brutal breakdown with an undead army of chugs.
“All I know is from Death“, growls Noctifer, in full command over the underground’s desolate new realms.
The lyric video for “Long Dead the King” was created by Andrés Montero Conde (@b2crea).
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
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