It’s time to storm the fortress and bang your head. Comrades from the North American energy doom scene have united on a four-band cut up of heavy metallic sorcery. Mourn the Gentle, Excessive Priest, Ice Howl, and Archduid have joined forces to showcase 11 sharp-edged new songs. In line with the band’s promotional textual content, the cut up options “4 hungry bands from the New Wave of Conventional Heavy Steel underground, every taking a distinct method and placing their very own spin on doom.” At the moment you’ll be able to hearken to your complete cut up earlier than its official launch on Friday, twenty fourth.

Connecticut’s Mourn the Gentle kick off the ceremony with an epic bravado and scorching leads. Matching the title’s fatalistic flare, “No One Will get Out Alive” achieves a darker tone with mid-song snarls. Canadian doom rockers Excessive Priest play candlemassive riffs with a downcast melodicism. They point out Solitude Aeternus as an inspiration, and whenever you enter “The Corridor of the Excessive Priest” that’s apparent as ever.  As the one band with three tracks on the cut up, they use the additional runtime to create “Wizard’s Gold” from their mixture of shadowy heavy metallic and avenue doom groove.

Indiana energy doom mission Ice Howl has expanded to a quartet to sound a collective battleroar for this launch. Lead by Jason Roach’s hooks and the spirited vocals of Zebah Latifi, Ice Howl has impressively shapeshifted with extra grit as a substitute of gloss. Their new monitor “Last Stand of the Third Age” is an album spotlight that soars whereas flexing its melodic muscle tissues. New Hampshire doomsters Archdruid shut the album with two tracks of fuzzy, burly old-fashioned doom. The band recruited vocalist Emily Waltz from a renaissance reenactment, so it’s no surprise these tracks sound like they’re fight prepared.

Enterprise into the battleground between conventional heavy metallic and doom by urgent play beneath.

Go to every band beneath to order a replica and dig into their discography. Plus, catch Mourn the Gentle and Ice Howl at subsequent 12 months’s Legions of Steel competition in Chicago.

Get enlightened by Mourn the Gentle HERE

Get flash frozen by Ice Howl’s riffs HERE

Enter the Corridor of the Excessive Priest HERE

And be part of the inexperienced outlaws of Archdruid HERE