Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Prominent Norwegian black metallers Immortal have completed writing their sequel to “War Against All,” which was released in 2023, as per theprp. Demonaz Doom Occulta, the band’s singer and guitarist, gave an update yesterday, April 19, about the group’s eleventh album in total. Demonaz is currently a one-man act, so it’s unclear who else, if anyone, will be joining them for this new album.
Greetings, hordes!
The writing of the next Immortal album is finished.
The new material follows our steady path of fast riff-powered Blashyrkh metal.
More news will follow!
Demonaz
Old Funeral and Amputation, two short-lived bands, gave rise to Immortal in the late 1980s. Abbath and Tore Bratseth established Old Funeral, which later featured a number of guitarists, including Demonaz, Varg Vikernes, and Jørn Inge Tunsberg, before breaking up in 1992. Before breaking up in 1990, Demonaz and Jørn founded Amputation, which put out two demos with Demonaz on guitar and vocals, Jørn on guitars, and Padden on drums. With Abbath on bass and lead vocals, Demonaz on guitar, Jørn on guitar, and Armagedda on drums, members of Old Funeral and Amputation founded Immortal in 1991. Their early demo recordings featured death metal music and lyrics influenced by Possessed and Morbid Angel. Then, bands like Bathory and Celtic Frost started to impact them.
They changed their style to black metal with the release of their self-titled EP in 1991. “Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism”, their 1992 first album, continued the harsh black metal sound they had perfected the year before. Their second full-length album, “Pure Holocaust”, was published in 1993. Compared to their first album, it had a more polished sound, with dramatic lyrics about evil and darkness and ambitious songs performed at fast speeds. Within the black metal genre, it is still highly regarded. The 1995 album “Battles in the North” continues where its predecessor left off, with songs about winter landscapes and coldness and more intense tempos.
