UK-based coven CRAVEN IDOL and Dark Descent Records have joined
forces with Decibel Magazine for an exclusive full-album stream of the
band's forthcoming debut, Towards Eschaton. Available worldwide
through Dark Descent on digital, CD and vinyl formats on October 15,
Exploring the depths of the subterranean caverns in which they dwell,
CRAVEN IDOL have reached beyond their blackened thrash roots by
incorporating elements of doom, traditional heavy metal and classic death.
The result is eight incantations of extreme metal as it was known in the days
before the subgenre pigeonholing and trend-fucking allegiance to scenes.
Towards Eschaton, which features artwork by Paolo Girardi, represents
the culmination of CRAVEN IDOL's dark visions to date. A coalescing of
the band's new and older material results in a mercurial assault, but one
whose constituent parts each read from the same bloodied hymn sheet.
Thematically the album deals primarily with the rotten fabric of religion and
the depraved notions birthed upon its gilded altars. Musically the record owes
fealty to the maligned era in which black and death metal juddered into
unlife, born dead in cemeteries haunted by relentless riffs and the screams
of the hellbound. The beasts of Bathory, Possessed, Venom, Absu,
Candlemass, Sarcofago, Belial, Manilla Road, Gospel Of The Horns,
Mercyful Fate, Hobbs Angel Of Death, Inquisition, Samael and Autopsy
have all left their mark on Towards Eschaton.
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