Barathrum stream new Hammer of Hate album in advance of its release

Legendary Finnish black metallers Barathrum stream the entirety of their highly anticipated tenth album, “Überkill”. Set for international release on October 11th via Hammer of Hate, hear Barathrum‘s “Überkill” in its entirety HERE.

Barathrum should need no introduction. Formed in 1991, the band remain one of Finland’s very first black metal bands – and, more importantly, one of the longest-running. While Finland’s history of black metal often revolves around Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, and Archgoat during the ’90s and then Horna, Satanic Warmaster, and Behexen at the dawn of the millennium, during all this have Barathrum remained steadfast in their vision of bulldozing, bass-heavy black metal that indeed features TWO bass guitars. The band’s first two albums – “Hailstorm” and “Eerie”, both released in 1995 – remain absolute classics of dark & unsettling art, but thereafter did the band take on a rowdier, more concertedly METAL aspect that’s made that vision all the more unique and their legacy all the more enduring. And while they more or less went on hiatus following 2005’s “Anno Aspera”, Barathrum returned rougher and rowdier than ever with 2017’s gutted ‘n’ glorious “Fanatiko”.

Alas, seven years pass, but the Barathrum sound & vision are eternal, and they return to prove it once again with “Überkill”. Here, previous-bassist / now-guitarist Ruttokieli (also mainman of Sielunvihollinen and White Rune) composed all but one of the songs on this, amazingly the band’s tenth album; drummer Vendetta makes his composition debut with the telltale, scene-setting opener “Death by Steel.” As always, founding frontman Demonos Sova wrote all the lyrics, and his signature full-throated rasp leads with devilish glee these alternately stomping / surging anthems, all with equally telltale titles like “Mountain of Bones,” “Dark Sorceress 3 (Spring Siege),” “Black Magick Rites,” and perhaps best of all, “Spark Plugs of Purgatory.” And yet, for as much as Barathrum are very much (still) a pure & proud black metal band, “Überkill” proves that the Finns are, above all, a very great heavy metal band – just one that’s jet-black, asskicking, and bass-driven as fuck. Simple-yet-sublime pleasures, now and forever: again, Barathrum are eternal!

In advance of its international release this Friday, hear “Überkill” in its entirety HERE at KVLT’s official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

1. Death by Steel
2. Mountain of Bones
3. Spark Plugs of Purgatory
4. Black Magick Rites
5. Ritual Murder
6. White Red Black and Pale
7. Denial of God
8. Dark Sorceress 3 (Spring Siege)
9. Überkill