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Today, Amor Fati Productions in conspiracy with Feral Heart Productions announce April 30th as the international release date for Oldowan Gash's highly anticipated second album, 1000 Dreams of War. Amor Fati will handle the CD and vinyl versions while Feral Heart will handle the cassette version.

Oldowan Gash released their first attacks on the underground in 2018 via two simultaneously released tapes - both of which were compiled on CD and LP last year. This early material showcased the ferocity & vitality that distinguished Oldowan Gash apart from their peers. The band made their live debut in 2019 supporting the likes of Bone Awl, Cirrhus, Profanatica, Sortilegia, Malignant Altar, and Mephitic Corpse. In 2020, the band’s aptly titled debut album, Hubris Unchained, cemented Oldowan Gash in a category of their own making: fiery and infectious riffing, desperate howls, and an arrogantly bitter attitude.

Now, six years later, mainman Forlorn Spirit returns with 1000 Dreams of War. Joined here by session drummer Longinus, Oldowan Gash proceed to build upon the noble spirit of its full-length predecessor, harnessing that characteristic desperation into something statelier and stealthier. Coldest fury runs rampant across 1000 Dreams of War - understandably, given the album's title and attendant themes - but Forlorn Spirit's riffing is ramped up to an enviable degree, remaining black metal at its core but now emitting a wider wealth of sensations and textures. To be sure, the melancholy-cum-triumph that so earmarked Hubris Unchained anchors this sophomore album, but more often than not, that foundation is somewhat reversed: triumphant at the beginning of the march / surge, only to give away to melancholy or at least grim resignation. Simply witness the blanching 14-minute closer, "Fighting Forever"...

Austere and yet deceptively kaleidoscopic, Oldowan Gash's development is linear and betrays a palette far more developed than their strident black metal purity suggests. Further completing the totality of 1000 Dreams of War is the rich 'n' rounded mastering courtesy of Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony as well as the vivid and utterly perfect cover artwork courtesy of Rada Niță, who also contributes the back cover art and six additional pieces for the liner. Hear the battle cries for those possessed by the spiritual war...

IN REMEMBRANCE OF A PAST WE CAN’T GET BACK

AND LAMENT FOR A FUTURE WE NEVER HAD

WE LONG FOR THE HILLS TO TURN BLACK

AND WISH FOR THE RIVERS TO RUN RED

A THOUSAND DREAMS OF WAR

ONE DAY IT WON'T JUST BE IN MY HEAD

In the meantime, hear the brand-new title track "1000 Dreams of War" HERE at Amor Fati's official YouTube channel. Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Oldowan Gash's 1000 Dreams of War

1. Catechism Of Shame Pt I [7:36]

2. 1000 Dreams Of War [5:44]

3. Brides Of Orlok [4:31]

4. Catechism Of Shame (Word Of Magic) Pt II [8:04]

5. Fighting Forever [14:02]