NEWS: Volucrine find one ring to rule them all…

Mastered by Saku Moilanen (Wolfheart, Nephylim, Before The Dawn) at Deep Noise Studios in Finland, a fifth studio album from Progressive Melodic Death Metal act Volucrine is set to crawl out from the black depths later this year. While details remain limited at best, Inverse Records will once again handle distribution with first single “Golem” now wandering the wilderness…

The band’s mastermind Jupe Velin comments: “After the great volcano erupted, the world was left barren and empty. The earth was covered in petrified magma and the air was heavy with ash. As if by a miracle, however, something in the gray mist moved. The boulders and cobblestones rattled and grinded as they piled up on top of each other. They climbed towards the sky, slowly twisting into a spine. The wind helped the sand draw its expression, the clay bound its limbs together. Assembled from the fragments of a bygone world, its cold shell began to resemble a human, but one without a purpose. Even though it didn’t know which way to go, two things were certain: It had a melting heart and a burning desire to live.

As a composition, GOLEM was built up from the, perhaps even a little bit folk-inspired, guitar melody heard in the chorus. When you add Volucrine’s typical riff texture and a crushing verse, the result is a surgical strike in song form that can be proudly presented as the first single from the upcoming album. The lyrics are addressed to those who sometimes feel that life takes away more than it gives. I would like to remind them that navigating through a void without a view requires guts and strength of character. Even there, you might find new life.”