Atmospheric Black Metal from England
Today I am proud to share with you the video for the title track of the new album, “A Reckoning”.
The visuals follow the lyrics quite closely, and give a real insight into what the narrative behind the new record is all about. Thanks to Olga Kann (Facebook, YouTube) for once again handling the video duties.
This will be the last ‘single’ before the album gets released on July 5th – for that, the Arx Atrata Bandcamp page is the place to be:
The long wait is over – today I’m proud to present the lyric video for “I Was A Witness To His Passing”, the first single from the forthcoming Arx Atrata album “A Reckoning”, due for release on July 5th 2024.
“I Was A Witness To His Passing” is the opening song from the new album and the lyrics tell a tale of both the futility of war and of the wider failings of humanity in our dealings with each other and our environment, rendered into video form by the talented hand of Olga Kann Art / Design.
The album “A Reckoning” is the first full-length record from Arx Atrata since 2019, and features over fifty minutes of melancholic black metal, mastered by the illustrious Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios.
Track listing:
1. To Sunder The World (instrumental)
2. I Was A Witness To His Passing
3. A Reckoning
4. Mercy Unearned
5. The Ruin Of My Past
6. The Witch
7. Our Dark Shadow
I’m proud to present the official video for the track ‘Succession’. This live action video follows the path of the eponymous Warrior as he seeks his final revenge, and represents the events portrayed musically in The Warrior Cycle.
Directed and filmed by Tom at Ritual Video (Instagram: @ritual_video ) at locations in South Wales, the video “deftly captures the story that the song spun so wonderfully without words”.
Read more, and watch what No Clean Singing called “extraordinary” and what Zero Tolerance called “incredible”, at the following links:
No Clean Singing: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2021/07/20/an-ncs-video-premiere-arx-atrata-succession/
Zero Tolerance: https://www.ztmag.com/news/zt-premiere-the-incredible-new-video-from-arx-atrata-succession/
The Warrior Cycle is released today!
Buy it on Bandcamp: https://arxatrata.bandcamp.com/album/the-warrior-cycle
On Friday April 2nd, Arx Atrata and Bleakwinter Shrine release The Warrior Cycle, a fully instrumental mini-album telling a tale of loss and revenge. Four epic tracks of blackened post metal, two from each artist, plus three dark ambient interludes, lead the listener through an epic and flowing musical odyssey.
The Warrior Cycle will be available on both Bandcamp pages, as a digital-only release for now. The download comes with liner notes talking about the theme behind the project and also how this record came to be.
https://arxatrata.bandcamp.com
https://bleakwintershrine.bandcamp.com/
Greetings all – this is just a short word to inform you all that en EP of three synth versions of Arx Atrata songs have been released under the banner of Arx Silvestris. Fans of dark ambient, dungeon synth, video game music, or even classic TV soundtracks may be interested.
You can listen to them at Bandcamp, Spotify, Deezer, and most other services.
The third album from Arx Atrata is entitled ‘The Path Untravelled’. Due out on October 11th, this record continues the sonic and thematic journey started by Oblivion and followed by Spiritus In Terra but visits new destinations.
More news on release formats and pre-orders will follow shortly, but for now, here’s ‘An Undying Verse’, a vision of the grey area between fact and fiction, wakefulness and slumber, life and death.
The runes were cast, and this is their message. Heed this portent, and wait…
