out June 6th: ABOVE AURORA

Listen to a song from the upcoming June 6h, 2020 album The Shrine of Deterioration by ABOVE AURORA (Poland/Iceland). The extreme band seeks a "hypnotic" and "trance" sound, as you will read in the official information and hear in the song below.

Established in Poznań, Poland in 2015 - and currently residing in Reykjavik, Iceland - Above Aurora debuted in 2016 with the album "Onwards Desolation" on Pagan Records. The album presents a pessimistic, trance-like black metal rooted in the tradition shaped by Burzum, Funeral Mist, Fog or Watain. At the beginning of 2018, Above Aurora released the mini album "Path to Ruin" mixed by Stephen Lockhart in Studio Emissary (Svartidauđi, Slidhr, Rebirth of Nefast, Sinmara). Over the next year, the band performed intensively, taking part in numerous festivals (including Ascension Festival Iceland, Howls of Winter, FOAD Fest II) and supported Fog during the European tour.

The material was recorded this winter and consists of six new compositions offering a hypnotic journey through various dimensions of pessimism. Trance, minimising the forms of expression and unfathomable coldness - these are the distinguishing features of the Above Aurora style. The band commented: "The Shrine of Deterioration" captures the current state of the band as mankind’s feeble condition continues to decline. Perhaps it is the essence of Above Aurora - our disappointment and resignation, loathing and self-reflections, sonically more complex than the previous releases, yet continuing the same form."

"The Shrine of Deterioration" was recorded at Left Hand Sounds, while Haldor Grunberg was responsible for the mix and mastering. The artwork and graphic design was done by Kontamination Design.

ABOVE AURORA - Barren Lore

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