NEWS: Hecate Enthroned stare at a Gallery of Rotting Portraits!

After seven long years wandering the wilderness, a reunited Hecate Enthroned are set to see a new album in “The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried” released via M-Theory Audio on 29th May. Once again produced by the Symphonic Black Metal titans alongside and Dan Abela (Akercocke, Bleed From Within, Annal Nathrakh), who also mixed and mastered, the affair is adorned by cover art created by Erskine Designs (Inanimate Existence, Bleed The Sky). The first evidence is “Gallery of Rotting Portraits“.

Bassist Dylan Hughes comments: “The single takes its name from the morbid preservation of the peat bogs, where bodies like the Lindow Man have rested for centuries. A Gallery of Rotting Portraits’ uses these ‘pagan sacrifices’ as a metaphor for obsolete devotion. It captures the jarring disconnect of unearthing a ritualized past only to find it stripped of its power. The song confronts the cold reality that while the bodies remain, the spirits and superstitions that put them there have long since rotted away, leaving us in a world devoid of its ancient magic. Our first release since 2019, these are huge, epic, hard-hitting songs carved in the traditional Hecate Enthroned way with a menacing veil delivered with a crisp punch. Lyrically based around ancient British myths and legends”