Progressive death metal entity Horrendous have unveiled details of their new album Ontological Mysterium and are treating us with the release of the first single and title track. The new album will be released worldwide on the 18th August 2023 via Season of Mist.

Watch the visualier for 'Ontological Mysterium' here: https://youtu.be/Dz8tHOwWHnk

The album contains everything you'd expect from Horrendous: technical proficiency and full of complex compositions with elements of progressive and melodic destruction.

Horrendous comment: "The album is our loveletter to the bombastic spirit of heavy metal music from the 80s and early 90s. Ontological Mysterium is an allegorical tale of creation, the formation of organic life, and the inadvertently and ironically destructive fate of unbound growth and uncontrollable reproduction. It represents the wild voracity of youth and inevitable transition into the gradual decay of aging in its various forms, fulfilling the unbroken circle of a biological existence."

Horrendous worked with renowned comic book artist and writer Daniel Warren Johnson, who has worked on titles for Imag and Marvel comics, to draw a poster to celebrate the album. The poster comes with the limited Vinyl Frankenstein edition and is available on the Season Of Mist e-shop.

Pre-order Ontological Mysterium HERE and pre-save HERE.

The cover artwork for Ontological Mysterium (designed by Brian Smith), tracklist and other details about the album can be found below.

“Surprises always come up during writing — spontaneous ideas pull you into new territory and enable the realization of novel possibilities that previously were inaccessible.”

Such are the words from Horrendous drummer Jamie Knox when discussing the creation of the band’s fifth full-length, the highly anticipated Ontological Mysterium. Knox’s quote also encapsulates Horrendous’s approach to extreme metal. Since 2009, the band has capably tapped into the inaccessible by providing a fresh, unconventional take on death metal that harnesses technical brilliance with elaborate, mind-melding melodies, frothy, spewing vocals and labyrinthine song structures. This combination has made each Horrendous long play a clinic in the gratifyingly unorthodox. The trend continues on Ontological Mysterium.

Horrendous are:
Matthew Knox - guitars / backing vocals
Jamie Knox - drums
Damian Herring - guitars / vocals
Alex Kulick - bass

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