Hail The Abyss LP fg_Catalog Number_B002636601 Lonnie Donegan/ Johnny Horton

Lonnie Donegan/ Johnny Horton

and where good and evil is not easily identified

their first release since 2017's 'Five'

a song which doesn't pull on your heartstrings so much as swing from them like monkey bars

and they haven't forgotten that

Hail The Abyss LP fg_Catalog Number_B002636601 Lonnie Donegan/ Johnny HortonTHULCANDRA's rise to power ignited when the Germany based outfit unleashed their debut album, Fallen Angel's Dominion, upon metaldom in 2010. The group, fronted by founding member and visionary Steffen Kummerer (also of Obscura fame), have tightened their hibernal grip on blackened death metal since. The desolate melodic emanations in follow up studio records Under a Frozen Sun (2011), Ascension Lost (2015), and the chart topping, 2021 album A Dying