NEWS: Darkend return for their throne!

Described as “an immersive and cathartic pathway towards the deepest hidden fields of who we really are“, Italian Black Metal act Darkend have proudly announced their fifth studio album “Viaticum“, which will be released on 14th June via Time To Kill Records. Preceded by “An Ancient Plague Has Silently Worn Our Garments As Its Throne” the five track affair is the next chapter from a band who have toured Europe thrice alongside the likes of Cradle Of Filth, Rotting Christ and Samael to name but three. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

The band commented: “The Light of Consciousness shines on a recurrent form of spiritual pestilence, contaminating the inner world and, consequentially, every shape inhabiting the outer world. When illuminated, what once operated as a form of destroying sickness mutates into a propulsive stream of elevating energy. ‘An Ancient Plague Has Silently Worn Our Garments As Its Throne’ is a haunting picturization of this process. A covenant between suffocating darkness and the radiant gleams of its sublimation, melted in an hypnotic continuum of incorporeal tension.

With lyrics and vocal lines courtesy of Animæ, the core riffs of the song has been penned by Nothingness before him and the band parted ways, while the blazing guitar solo and the harmonized melodic guitars in the middle section serve as an introduction to our new guitarist Acamar. As a circle completes, Darkend would like to dedicate this first single out of ‘Viaticum’ to Nothingness himself: to his memory and to his legacy”.