Monday, February 24, 2014

MAYHEM: SET TO UNLEASH "ESOTERIC WARFARE"




Norwegian black metal legends MAYHEM have revealed more info on the bands anticipated new  release "ESOTERIC WARFARE", due to be unleashed 5/23/2014 (EUROPE) and 5/27/2014 (NORTH AMERICA)  via  SEASON OF MIST. MAYHEM are celebrating the band's 30th anniversary and have unleashed
a new track "PSYWAR" exclusively on METAL HAMMER.  "PSYWAR", the new track from MAYHEM's new release is due to be unleashed 4/25/2014. 









MAYHEM unleashed "Ordo Ad Chao", 4/16/2007 via SEASON OF MIST.



FROM SEASON OF MIST: 
Norway's black metal legends MAYHEM have returned! Extreme metal's most infamous band will release their long-awaited new album on May 23rd (May 27th in North America). Entitled ‘Esoteric Warfare’, MAYHEM’s fifth full-length will be the follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed 'Ordo Ad Chao'. ‘Esoteric Warfare’ will be preceded by the release of new single “Psywar” as a 7” vinyl on April 25th (April 29th in North America). A lyric video of the song is streaming at the following locations:
Close-Up (SE)
Decibel (US)
Inferno (FI)
Lords of Metal (NL)
Loud (PT)
Metal Hammer (DE)
Metal Hammer (UK)
Musick Magazine (PL)
NRK Pyro (NO)
Rock Hard (IT)
Rock Overdose (GR)
This Is Rock (ES)
VS Webzine (FR)
The B-side of the ‘Psywar’ 7" vinyl is made of the "From Beyond the Event Horizon" demo, a non-album track taken from the band's 2012 Budapest sessions. The single will come in different editions featuring art from Zbigniew Bielak (WATAIN, GHOST, BEHEMOTH) and Costin Chioreanu (ULVER, VADER, IHSAHN). ‘Psywar’ will be pressed across several different coloured vinyl editions, all limited to 500 copies and already available for pre-order at Season of Mist’s e-shop. Here are all four versions:

VIDEO BELOW: MAYHEM: "PSYWAR" (COURTESY OF SEASON OF MIST): 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-