DIKASTERION zapowiadają nowy mini

 

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces September 1st as the international release date for a brand-new mini-album from Dikasterion, Chaos as a New World, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Born from an evil alliance of North & South of Hellgium, Dikasterion began preaching His unholy gospel in 2018, following the ancient path opened by such entities as Barathrum, Archgoat, Beherit, and Holy Death. The band's earliest attacks - a demo in 2018 and a 7" EP the following year, courtesy of Amor Fati - featured a muscular & miasmic style of black metal, which is perhaps unsurprising given the appearance of erstwhile Possession drummer Pz. Kpfw. With a lineup shuffle that now sees the band returning to their original power-trio format, Dikasterion present a strange twist of ancient black metal energies on their first longer-length record, the Chaos as a New World mini-album.

Encompassing seven tracks in a swift half-hour, Chaos as a New World charges forward in a manner most Bathorian, all dungeonic chord-clang and orkish rasp...at least initially. From there, Dikasterion turn the tables with triumphantly blown-out leads and songwriting that veers askew before going anthemic, perhaps best encapsulated in the aforementioned cover "Armies of the Night," which the band here make their own. As Chaos of a New World plays on, the familiar and the foreign wage war against each other: BLACK METAL, in the very olde-world sense of it, this most definitely is, but the band's note choices and production style suggest an auteur's touch. Or, slash apart such fancy words and fully embrace the fact that black metal originally started as an unorthodox movement and that its early practitioners mostly wanted to herald Satan in a confrontational way - avant-garde wizards they were not. OR, perhaps Dikasterion here reside somewhere in between those "truths," never quite offering the straightest/simplest line but doing so confrontationally - and gleefully, devilishly so.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "New World Disorder" HERE at Amor Fati's official YouTube channel. Cover artwork, courtesy of Cinis, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Dikasterion's Chaos of a New World

1. Intro

2. Perdition's Call

3. New World Disorder

4. Armies Of The Night

5. Across The Line

6. Rites Of Conviction

7. Death's Serenade