Today, Armageddon Label announces
January 27th, 2023 as the international release date for the highly
anticipated debut album of America's Malleus, The Fires of Heaven, on CD and
vinyl LP formats.
Malleus has returned to
present us with The Fires of Heaven.
Expanding on and refining their influences from the seminal first-wave era of
death and black metal, they have delivered unto us eight savage bursts of
classic blackened metal, combining brooding atmosphere, razor-sharp riffs,
fiercely delivered drumming, and raw, throat-ripping vocals, all summoned and
sent forth from the gloomiest crypts and corners of olde New England. Like a
distant tolling bell emanating from the manic depths of humanity's past, the
lyrics contemplate and belie the failings of mankind, and evoke a sense of the
darkness that may yet lay ahead...
In the past, the majority of Malleus'
lyrics dealt with the psychological impact that the "fear of the
unknown" has on the psyche of human beings throughout history. Typically,
the lyrics address how this phenomenon leads to individual and societal
fear-->paranoia-->hatred-->violence-->and codified bigotry. The
individual song lyrics typically address these issues from various historical
and sometimes occult perspectives, in an attempt to showcase this phenomenon as
a major failing of the human race, particularly in our attempts to build any
type of modern "civilized" society.
With the new album, they follow this theme closely, but do so in a much more
conceptual and semi-chronological manner. Thematically, the songs are about the
arrival of Europeans (primarily English Puritans) in New England during the
early 17th Century, and the tragedy of their lives and often-bloody cultural
interactions with other groups in colonial New England (Native Americans,
French Catholics, enslaved Africans, etc.) over the remainder of that century.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Beyond the Pale" HERE
at Armageddon Label's Bandcamp.
Cover artwork, courtesy of Adam Burke, and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting
for Malleus (U.S.)'s The Fires of Heaven
1. The Tempest
2. A Dark Sun Rises
3. Beyond the Pale
4. Prophetess
5. The Fires of Heaven
6. Into the Flesh
7. Awakening
8 Mourning War
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