“Throne Of Ecstasy” is the latest single from long-running German black/thrash legion DESASTER. The track comes off the band’s tenth studio album, Kill All Idols, set for release on August 22nd on Metal Blade Records.
DESASTER has been churning out their unique and unholy conjurings of extreme metal since 1989. With a four-year gap elapsing since the band’s critically-lauded Churches Without Saints full-length, fans have had to be patient again but will find the results more than worth the wait.
In an early review, Powermetal.de calls the record, “a real beast,” that, “clearly demonstrates who the king of black thrash is: DESASTER!” Deaf Forever concurs, “DESASTER are the most reliable black thrash metal band of all, not only here, but worldwide…The framework is always [guitarist] Infernal’s signature riffs, which embody the fusion of thrash and black metal, while Sataniac’s vocals occasionally incorporate death metal and, despite all their brutality, are maximally varied… I can’t imagine a metal world without DESASTER.” Adds Fuze, “While the band took a brief hiatus in their early years, a band that has uncompromisingly played its way through the depths of the metal underground for more than 35 years undoubtedly deserves institutional status. With…Kill All Idols, DESASTER underscores this claim once again, delivering a work that celebrates both tradition and evolution.”
Elaborates founding guitarist Infernal on “Throne Of Ecstasy,” “The song is a traditional DESASTER black/thrash song, which immediately encourages headbanging and fist-raising in the middle part. The riffs were created spontaneously in the rehearsal room during one of the legendary sessions with lots of (of course legal) stimulants and only had to be arranged a little. It was an easy birth! The songs that emerged from jams are usually our best.”
Kill All Idols was tracked in the band’s rehearsal room together with their live mixer Jan “Janosch” Gensheimer and mixed and mastered by Greg Wilkinson of Autopsy at his own Earhammer Studio in Oakland, California. Infernal notes, “Greg managed to give our sound a new guise. The collaboration with him was absolutely perfect and we have rarely been so satisfied after an album production.”
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