HOUR OF PENANCE – To Begin Recording New Album

HOUR OF PENANCE have announced that they will enter the studio in under a month’s time to begin tracking their eighth studio album.

The album will arrive through Agonia Records later this year with an exact release date yet to be determined.

A self-described “brutal” death metal band from Rome, Italy, HOUR OF PENANCE formed in 1999. Influenced at first by a combination of black and death metal, the band would soon move away from those styles, and — influenced by Cannibal Corpse — opt for a more up front and pummeling technical death metal style. Their first demo hit the scene in 2000, and was followed by their first album, Disturbance, in 2003.

By this time they had laid the groundwork by playing the Swedish death metal festival at Gothenburg and signed with Spanish label Xtreem.

Speaking on what they have planned in 2019, the band issued the following statement:

“Prepare yourselves, we’re finally ready to hit the studio once again. The follow up to ‘Cast the First Stone‘ will consist of 9 tracks written during the course of the last two years in which we put all our best efforts to give you another piece of extreme speed and brutality.

We decided to record all drums at Bloom Recording Studio in February, while guitars, bass and vocals will be tracked at Kick Recording Studio.

To take things up a notch this time, we’ll fly to Poland in March to do all mixing and mastering at Hertz Recording Studio (Behemoth, Decapitated, Vader, Hate and many more) and give you the sonic assault your ears are craving for. We worked harder than ever on every single detail of every single song, and we cannot wait to let all of you get your hands on our new opus. We’ll share more information and details over the next weeks, stay in touch!”