The Mosaic Window: pre-orders open for new album “Answered Prayers”

Metal Blade Records & Vesperian are proud to open pre-orders for “Answered Prayers”, the new album by The Mosaic Window, out on November 13th, 2026. Alongside the pre-order launch, the album’s second single, “Lightning Be Thy Guide“, is available now on all digital platforms.

“Answered Prayers” marks a deliberate return to the roots for The Mosaic Window,, the solo project of Andrew Steven “Skeletonhammer” Brown (also known for his work in Bone Abduction). The project’s 2024 album “Hemasanctum” was a polished, prog-tinged hybrid of death and black metal. The new record moves away from that sound and draws directly on the first and second waves of black metal: cold, fast, melodic and uncompromising.

The album’s ten tracks are bound together by a bleak, nihilistic concept. The idea is a poisoned world whose only cure is the erasure of humanity, undone retroactively, centuries before the Industrial Revolution ever had a chance to begin.

Following lead single “What Sage Could Not Cleanse“, “Lightning Be Thy Guide” shows a different side of the album. It is a mainly mid-tempo, dynamic piece that trades sheer velocity for weight and atmosphere, without losing any of the record’s bite.

“Answered Prayers” was mixed and mastered by Alex Sedin at Ghostalgy Productions, with session drums performed by Dmitry Kim (Jinjer, among others).

Listen to the new single “Lightning Be Thy Guide” HERE and find pre-orders for “Answered Prayers” HERE

Tracklist:
Premonition Of The Prophecy (0:48)
The Fog Carries Plague (5:36)
Serpentine (4:03)
Lightning Be Thy Guide (4:49)
What Sage Could Not Cleanse (3:49)
Blood And Chains (4:51)
Unsheathing The Fall Of Man (4:03)
Crusader (3:36)
Echoes Of Answered Prayers (5:30)
Devotion To My Burning Desire (5:00)

Lineup:
Skeletonhammer: all instruments & vocals
Dmitry Kim: session drums

Style: Existential Black Metal

Active Since: 2020
Origin: USA, Los Angeles, California

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/themosaicwindow
https://themosaicwindow.bandcamp.com
https://www.vesperian.world
https://www.instagram.com/vesperian.world