Former black metal, now modern metal band Mayhem have announced further details about their upcoming album via Season of Mist. Entitled Esoteric Warfare, the track list can be viewed below:
- Watcher
- Psywar
- Trinity
- Pandaemon
- Mylab
- Six Seconds
- Throne of Time
- Corpse of Care
- Posthuman
- Aion Suntalia
The album is set to be released on May 23, with a US release date on May 27. It will be available for pre-order next Wednesday, March 26.
Additionally, the band has planned a European tour to support the album’s release, with two festival dates currently scheduled later in the year:
- 14 May 14 Hamburg (DE) Markthalle
- 16 May 14 Bochum (DE) Matrix
- 17 May 14 Köln (DE) Essigfabrik
- 18 May 14 Eindhoven (NL) Effenaar
- 20 May 14 Bruxelles (BE) AB
- 21 May 14 London (GB) Electric Ballroom
- 22 May 14 Paris (FR) Le Divan du Monde
- 23 May 14 Winterthur (CH) Gaswerk
- 24 May 14 Milan (IT) Factory
- 26 May 14 Bratislava (SK) Randal
- 27 May 14 München (DE) Backstage Club
- 28 May 14 Berlin (DE) C-Club
- 29 May 14 Warsaw (PL) Proxima
- 30 May 14 Plzen (CZ) Metalfest Open Air Festival
- 31 May 14 København (DK) Pumpehuset
- 28 Jun 14 Lausanne (CH) Les Docks (Inferno Festival)
- 08 Aug 14 Øya (NO) Tøyenparken (Øya Festival)
The album’s first single, entitled Psywar is scheduled for release on April 26. It contains of an alternate mastering of the titular track (our review can be found here), in addition to a track entitled “From Beyond the Event Horizon”, taken from the scrapped 2012 Budapest Sessions.
Tags: Black Metal, mayhem, nu-black
New song sounds like Behemoth. Not good.
“Former black metal, now modern metal band Mayhem… ”
That was worth a chuckle!
Also notice the “nu-black” tag.
I’m giving this a listen, but only because I want to lose all hope I have left for Mayhem. I’m tired of waiting for a decent or listenable album from them.