Swedish black/death metallers THE LEGION, who feature in their ranks former MARDUK drummer Emil Dragutinovic, have posted another new song, "Blood, Be Gone!", on their MySpace page. The track comes off the band's third album, "A Bliss to Suffer", due on April 27 through Listenable Records.
The group says, "We uploaded a third taster from the soon-to-be-released album, this time a harsh, blackened grind-fest which arguably goes back to our roots more than any song on the record. 'Blood, Be Gone!' was one of the first songs to be written for this album. In its original shape it comes with a haunting intro sequence, which we scrapped for this MySpace edit."
Vocalist Martinsson comments on the lyrical content: "Ever been so preposterously hung over you start imagining what pleasures the resolve of your human body must mean? In part put to paper while sitting through the night bedside a literally dying woman at a home for old people, these lines are a contemplation of the void beyond and within, drawing on the intoxicating experience of verging between sleep and wake and not realizing exactly what is what. As the music blasts away in a rather furious tempo, this piece of lyrics remains one of least aggressive of the album, and is a call for a situation which doesn't quite so closely resemble hell."
Check out the song's lyrics at this location.
The CD was entirely produced by the bandmembers themselves at Art Decay Studio during a series of sessions in 2007 and 2008 and "displays the relentless speed and severe brutality of previous efforts blended together with strangely atmospheric and epic elements, taking the lethal concoctions to new heights," according to a press release. The band says, "Vocalist [Lars] Martinsson is back as a permanent member after commitments elsewhere, and celebrates the return with a never-ending row of ghastly shrieks all through the album."
"A Bliss to Suffer" track listing:
01. Shining Redemption
02. Call Of The Nameless Black
03. A Toil Beneath The Skin
04. Blood, Be Gone!
05. A Curse For The Dead
06. The Luring Depths
07. The Inimical
08. Man-Beast
09. The Reaping Of Flesh And Blood
THE LEGION released its sophomore album, "Revocation", in February 2006 via Listenable Records.
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