DEATH KARMA – Unveils New Album Details

Following DEATH KARMA’s debut EP, “A Life Not Worth Living,” in early 2013 the Czech band now announces a full-length titled “The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part 1.” The album is due out via Iron Bonehead on February 13th, and the label had this to say:

“As suggested by its grandiose title, The History of Death & Burial Rituals displays the duo in a considerably elevated state: the ambition and daring Death Karma exhibit here almost sounds like an entirely different band. However, the band remains the same, and includes two members of the critically acclaimed Cult Of Fire.

“Not unlike that band, Death Karma here unveil a comparatively kaleidoscopic kind of black metal, bolstered by death metal muscle, surging-yet-layered songcraft, mystical melodicism, and a robust production that highlights every subtle nuance, every dynamic twist, and especially the over-spilling violence. It’s an album that not so much abandons black/death in futile favor of something “different” for its own sake, but rather attempts – and succeeds, massively – to inject bold adventure into classicist purity. With The History of Death & Burial Rituals part 1, Death Karma reveal themselves to the world…and it’s just the beginning.”

Vocalist/guitarist/bassist Infernal Vlad explains the concepts behind the albumI: “Death is as young as humanity itself. It accompanies mankind from the very beginning, and it is an integral part of life. As the cultural differences in society have been evolving throughout the centuries, different ways of burying the deceased, as well as their worship and access to the dead, were incurring. In particular, the emergence of different religions in the world had a crucial influence on funerary rituals, historical and current, as well as on the perception of death. Many cults of death were born…”

1. Slovakia – Journey of the Soul
2. Madagascar – Famadihana
3. Mexico – Chichén Itzá
4. Czech Republic – Úmrlcí Prkna
5. India – Towers of Silence
6. China – Hanging Coffins

Source: metalunderground

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