Today, W.T.C. Productions announces
March 24th as the international release date for Chaos Invocation's highly
anticipated fourth album, Devil, Stone & Man.
By now, Chaos Invocation should
require little introduction. Formed in 2004 and releasing three increasingly
celebrated full-lengths via W.T.C., Chaos Invocation have
steadily become a pillar of Germany's long-potent black metal underground.
Their last album, 2018's Reaping Season, Bloodshed
Beyond, was an iron-fisted smash through more dynamic corridors,
with their sinuous and serpentine black metal taking on a more heightened (but
no less muscular) melodic aspect. As the world has fully turned to shit, Chaos Invocation thus
cover that iron fist with a grime unfathomably dark and dreadful. Indeed, Devil, Stone & Man is the
record deserving of these times - or rather, vice versa.
Perhaps as a counterreaction or at least parallel development to that dynamic
predecessor, Devil, Stone & Man is
inarguably Chaos Invocation's most direct
and aggressive album to date, and one give horrific power through its massive
& molten production, which handily challenges those naysayers who claim
true black metal can't palatably possess "professional" recording.
Its ultraviolence twists and turns but ever moves forward, downward, diving
across dazzling depths and heights with the ease of masters. Truly, Chaos Invocation's
already-sturdy songwriting has been given an uptick in detail and nuance here,
sounding sweeping and ceremonial as it does teeth-gnashingly harsh and
harrowing. A whirlwind, a vortex, both and beyond: Chaos Invocation have been
qualified as these before, but now one can add world-eating dreadnought to that
list, as well, with Devil, Stone & Man.
Gaze deeply into Devil, Stone & Man's
stark cover artwork - courtesy of BMS Illustration - and one will begin to
understand where Chaos Invocation are
coming from, and where they are going. Will you follow them to The End?
Begin following with the brand-new track "Strike of the Dominator's
Fist" HERE at
W.T.C. Productions' official
YouTube channel. Aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting
for Chaos Invocation's Devil, Stone & Man
1. Strike Of The Dominator's Fist
2. A Stranger's Pale Hand
3. Diabolical Hammer
4. Odonata Fields
5. Where We Have Taken The Cross
6. Triple Fire
7. Curses Upon You
8. The Revolting Abyss
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