NEWS: Crawling Chaos are the hammer, fate is the nail…

Time To Kill Records have put a 28th March release date on a third studio album “Wyrd” from Italian Death Metal act Crawling Chaos. Recorded in December 2023, the album is said to be an anthology inspired by the role of various feminine figures of the European mythology and their role in embodying the concepts of fate and free will. The main theme is expanded and explored across the album’s ten tracks, following a narrative thread which unites some of the most fascinating female figures of classical mythology, European folklore and history, from the Norse Norns to Macbeth’s witches serving Hecate, from the Greco-Roman Furies to the fearsome Thessalian necromancers. The first tale of woe is “Nails Of Fate“…

The band comment: “‘Nails of Fate’ is an ode to the Norns of Norse mythology. The lyrics, freely adapted from the renowned Sigrdrífumál, are conceived as a kind of runic spread where the winter triad—Hagalaz, Nauthiz, and Isa—is cast. These three runes mark the beginning of Heimdall’s Ætt and are associated with Urd, Skuld, and Verdandi. In addition to twisting the threads of fate to shape the destiny of the individuals, these mythological figures also used to carve runes in order to keep a sort of cosmic chronicle of the entire universe. It is said that, as a symbol of the power they wielded over fate, the runes were even engraved on their nails“.