Idzie czwarty album PORTA NIGRA

 

Today, Soulseller Records announces July 28th as the international release date for Porta Nigra's highly anticipated fourth album, Weltende.

Since their formation in 2010, Germany's Porta Nigra have achieved the status of being one purveyors of the avant-garde within extreme metal. Starting with their sinister and opium-infused debut of 2012's Fin de Siècle to the martial and militant mock of the Prussian empire in 2015's Kaiserschnitt to the more straightforward but no-less-theatrical black metal opus Schöpfungswut in 2020, the band have cemented their leading position within the vanguard scene of German extreme metal.

Bringing the past into the present with bold and belligerent strokes, Porta Nigra return with Weltende, recasting the eclectic expression of their first two albums in a new, brilliant light. Immediately, the shapeshifting-yet-signature sound of the band is established - austere but restless, spacious but suffocating - and vocalist André Meyrink incredibly dynamic throat leads the charge with stentorian flair. But as much of a rush as Weltende is from that very beginning - and truly, Porta Nigra can rush and race with the best of them - the band's fourth full-length soon blossoms like a deadly flower into myriad dread shapes, all breathtaking to behold. No sonic stone is left uncovered here: black metal, death metal, doom, thrash, and various connecting points in between. But, above all, Porta Nigra keep the grandiose edge that's unified all their work, however varied, and Weltende vividly illustrates a deep lyrical focus.

As Meyrink explains, "This album transports the very aspects of war and what war causes to you mentally quite perfect. It is shocking, fanatic, dramatic, and depressing in equal measure and almost devoured me. Definitely no easy-listening stuff, but an album that grows and grows like the horrors of martial destruction."

First track premiere and preorder info to be announced shortly. Cover artwork, courtesy of Käthe Kollwitz, and tracklisting are as follows:

 

Tracklisting for Porta Nigra's Weltende

1. Es ist Krieg

2. Götterblut

3. Völkerbrand

4. Verlorene Paradiese

5. Bestienschlund

6. Die himmlische Revolution

7. Weltende

8. Triebgeschwärme

9. Hora Mortis