DARKENED reveal new lyric video - features members of GRAVE, MEMORIAM, A CANOROUS QUINTET, EXCRUCIATE+++ Tuesday September 1 2020, 12:00 AM
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DARKENED reveal new lyric video - features members of GRAVE, MEMORIAM, A CANOROUS QUINTET, EXCRUCIATE+++

Today, pan-international death metal elite  Darkened  reveal   a new lyric video   for   "Kingdom of Decay."  The track is   the fourth to be revealed   from the band's highly anticipated debut album,  Kingdom of Decay , set for international release on September 11th via  Edged Circle Productions . With an entrancing lyric video created by David Havlena ( www.hdart.info ), see & hear   Darkened 's title track "Kingdom of Decay" in its entirety  HERE  at   Edged Circle 's official YouTube channel.



It was but the summer of 2019 when   Darkened  burst onto the international stage with their debut EP for   Edged Circle Into the Blackness . Although an otherwise-brand-new entity at the time,   Darkened  boasted a wealth of experience in the death metal underground, comprising drummer Andy Whale (ex-Bolt Thrower / Memoriam), bassist Daryl Kahan (ex-Disma / Funebrarum), vocalist Gord Olson (Ye Goat-Herd Gods / Demisery), and guitarists Linus Nirbrant (A Canorous Quintet / This Ending) and Hempa Brynolfsson (Excruciate / Ordo Inferus). As such, the band's opening salvo was truly a sum of all its not-inconsiderable parts: all-caps DEATH METAL of a cool and cruising and above all CRUSHING aspect. Unsurprisingly,  Into the Blackness  garnered widespread acclaim, and heightened anticipation for the band's inevitable first full-length.

At last, it arrives under the ominous title  Kingdom of Decay .   Darkened  here have undergone a slight lineup shift, with Kahan departing as bassist and Tobias Cristiansson (Grave / ex-Dismember) taking his place - another underground veteran whose presence is perfect for the band's increasingly confident crush. Everything on  Kingdom of Decay  is an intensification of that short-but-sweet debut EP: the riffs more patient but punishing, the doom darker and doled out more effectively, the songs more world-eating whilst effectively exploring a greater wealth of dynamics and, it must be said, atmosphere. Elsewhere, the winning formula of  Into the Blackness  remains largely unchanged - the stately, steely pulse of later Bolt Thrower or the subsequent Memoriam dusted with the classy melodicism of A Canorous Quintet and successors This Ending, but all done with a touch that's somewhere between comfortably familiar and subtly unique - and you can now also add a touch of the tank-like onslaught of prime Grave, with everything given a gleaming CRUSH courtesy of the mixing by Tobbe Sillman (General Surgery) and mastered by the one and only Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity) in the famous Unisound Studio in Sweden. This is what debut-album dreams are made of...or nightmares!

Graced with unforgettably austere cover artwork courtesy of Juanjo Castellano Rosado (Unleashed, The Black Dalhia Murder, Gates of Ishtar),   Darkened 's  Kingdom of Decay  is guaranteed to be one of THE death metal albums of the year. DEATH METAL for death metal maniacs, by death metal maniacs!

Continue hearing for yourself with the brand-new  title track "Kingdom of Decay"  HERE  at   Edged Circle 's official YouTube channel. Also hear the previously revealed  "1000 Years" exclusively  HERE , courtesy of  Decibel  magazine;  "The Old Ones" exclusively   HERE , courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com; and   "The Burning"  HERE  at  Edged Circle 's Bandcamp, where all editions of the album can be preordered. Aforementioned c over art and tracklisting are as follows:



Tracklisting for Darkened (International)'s  Kingdom of Decay
1. Nekros Manteia
2. Dead Body Divination
3. 1000 Years
4. Pandemonium
5. Cage of Flesh
6. The Burning
7. The Old Ones
8. Kingdom of Decay
9. Of Unsound Mind
10. The White Horse of Pestilence
11. Winds of Immortality

 






DARKENED lineup 2020
Hempa Brynolfsson - guitar (Excruciate)
Linus Nirbrant - guitar (A Canorous Quintet)
Tobias Cristiansson - bass (Grave, ex-Dismember)
Gord Olson - vocals (Ye Goat Herd Gods)
Andy Whale - drums (Memoriam, ex-Bolt Thrower)


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