MONGREL'S CROSS reveal cover & tracklisting for new HELLS HEADBANGERS album - ABSU's Proscriptor features as new vocalist Friday July 24 2020, 5:29 AM
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MONGREL'S CROSS reveal cover & tracklisting for new HELLS HEADBANGERS album - ABSU's Proscriptor features as new vocalist


Today, Aussie metal vanguard  Mongrel's Cross   reveal the cover and tracklisting for their highly anticipated third album,  Arcana, Scrying and Revelation , which will be released this autumn by   Hells Headbangers  on CD and vinyl LP formats. This album marks the arrival of Absu's Proscriptor as their vocalist. Cover art, courtesy of Kris Verwimp, and tracklisting are as follows:




Tracklisting for Mongrel's Cross'  Arcana, Scrying and Revelation
1. Suffer the Witch to Live [6:07]
2. Fate of the Grail PT. I [4:53]
3. A Magician's Prayer [5:22]
4. Fate of the Grail PT. II [6:02]
5. As a Being Undead [5:21]
6. What the Cards May Tell [6:09]
7. The Whispering Void [4:45]




Hailing from the extreme metal hotbed of Australia,   Mongrel's Cross  were once of the best-kept secrets Down Under. The band's debut album,  The Sins of Aquarius , was released in 2012 via   Hells Headbangers , and presented an unselfconsciously unique twist on paradigmatic Oz black/death. Grimily gratifying,   Mongrel's Cross   unleashed a widescreen span of filthy thrashing, down-tempo war-marches, and epic metal grandeur alike, and diehards dutifully took note. Unfortunately, lineup struggles would hamper momentum, and it would take six long years before another recording reared its head.

However, when   Mongrel's Cross   at last emerged from their hiatus, now pared down to a duo, the dividends paid off handsomely. Released in 2018 to widespread international acclaim,  Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court  soon became something of a modern classic to any and all who heard it.   Mongrel's Cross   didn't so much as change during the interim as simply intensify and fine-tune their iron-fisted attack, here conveying an altogether more terrifying and triumphant aspect. It was the age-old axis of form meeting content, and rarely had a metal record this cleanly produced sounded so threatening, which simply underlined the powerful panache to the band's strong songwriting.   Mongrel's Cross   had truly arrived with  Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court  - and thankfully, people were now paying attention.

Keeping that shit-hot momentum going,   Mongrel's Cross   scored quite the coup in acquiring the legendary vocal skills of Absu's incomparable Proscriptor for their third full-length. Bearing the appropriately magickal title of  Arcana, Scrying and Revelation , these Aussie hooligans-turned-heroes are set to deliver yet another decisive and undeniable album.   Mongrel's Cross   are on the march, ready to take the throne that's rightfully theirs.

If its no-less-considerable predecessor saw   Mongrel's Cross   step deeper into territory that's entirely their own, here with  Arcana, Scrying and Revelation  do the bolstered quartet solidify that rarefied ground. Not for them the over-generalization of "Australia = war metal" nor the simplistic connotations associated with such; still peaking at the height of their compositional powers,   Mongrel's Cross   remain a great extreme METAL entity. All the drama and danger, legendry and lawlessness, power and poison, and essential OTT abandon of this artform otherwise known as heavy metal - everything that  Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court  so effortlessly played out with a palpably physical poetry - here on  Arcana  do they render in more manic  and  narrative form, no doubt informed by Proscriptor's pioneering work with the singular Absu. In fact, it's a match so perfect (and poignant), it's a small wonder it never happened sooner... Regardless, each of these seven screeds artfully canvasses a wide territory of heavy metal magick - the playing deft and nuanced, the songwriting itself direct yet richly detailed - and once again does the clean 'n' gleaming production fit like a gauntlet lined with velvet. In a word,  Arcana  is EPIC, in every sense.

Suitably adorned with majestic cover artwork courtesy of the masterful Kris Verwimp, hereby do   Mongrel's Cross   enter the halls of confirmed greatness with  A rcana, Scrying and Revelation !

Release date, preorder info, and first track to be announced shortly. For more info, consult the links below.

 



 
 




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