Despite its fiery and contentious spirit, black metal can get stuck in its own ways. But while they emerged from a mystic scene that's familiar to the well-initiated, Wrath of Logarius aren't bound by black metal's strict sense of tradition.
The band's upcoming debut album officially announces a new realm for the subgenre: formless black metal. Much like their notoriously hard-to-beat namesake, which approach they take in launching their attack is impossible to predict. But no matter what skeletal form they assume, one thing is clear: Crown of Mortis pronounces Wrath of Logarius as unflinching kings of black metal's new realm.
Crown of Mortis comes out April 4 on Season of Mist.
Watch the commanding video for the album's shape-shifting lead single "Keeper of the Spectral Legion".
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Wrath of Logarius hail from the misty forests of Northern California, but it's fitting that whispers of their supremacy started by spreading through the digital underground. The band's introductory EP infected the world of extreme metal like a bloodborne virus.
"To these ears, I hear Cascadian black metal mixed with a blackened form of tech death, with some stunningly beautiful melodic work", New Noise wrote about Necrotic Assimilation. "All that is to say, good luck figuring out Wrath of Logarius, and that's the point".
On Crown of Mortis, the legend behind Wrath of Logarius has only grown. The album follows in the wake of the band's viral takeover; each song serves the larger narrative of an accursed king with its lead single rolling out the blood red carpet for his army of the dead.
"Ancient - Power - Cosmic - Legion", Noctifier growls during the song's punchy, bone-crushing chorus before his gutturals climb into throat-scraped agony.
Wrath of Logarius summons the full force of their signature formless style on "Keeper of the Spectral Legion". After another studio ritual at Rapture Recordings with producer Cody Fuentes, the band have leveled up in brute strength and hair-raising skill. Lord Marco's flying fingers still pound with technical precession while Urath and Vastador churn chunky death metal riffs into blackened reams of shredding melodic dissonance.
With Crown of Mortis, Wrath of Logarius build on their throne of formless black metal. Though possessed by a mournful melody, "Long Dead the King" marches to Lord Marco's blistering blasts. The flays from his flying fingers are so precise in their pounding that they erode the mind. But while the band have leveled up in brute strength, the album also ups their chilling sense for atmosphere with hair-raising skill. With the curl of each blackened tendril, "Of the Void" embraces transfiguration by fire and ice. "Open the gates and let revision in", Noctifier beckons amidst swirling dissonance. "Slowly dismantle every part of you".
Wrath of Logarius also encrust Crown of Mortis with deadly new jewels. Another woodland specter comes to join their ranks on "The Ethereal Mist". Beneath its slithering stomp emerges Vilhelm of Grima with freshly rotten snarls. "Lurker's Tomb" crashes down with knuckle-dragging riffs and brutal double bass kicks, but its trap is sprung by a solo that's treachery lies in its maze-like technicality. "The fear subsides for now I breathe again", Noctifier shrieks as the album's dread-inducing closer ascends into the astral plane.
On Crown of Mortis, Wrath of Logarius bend black metal to fit their formless rule.
Line-up
Noctifer - Vocals
Urath - Lead Guitars
Vastador - Guitars
Lord Marco - Drums
Recording Studio
Rapture Recordings, Hayward, CA, USA
Production Credits
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Cody Fuentes at Rapture Recordings Studio
Cover Art
Sant V. Schreiber
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Bandcamp: https://wrathoflogarius.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wrath_of_logarius/
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/wrath-of-logarius/1712706210
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0CHi92LvwVayTacWx3nsfa
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