HELLRIPPER, die schottische Old School blackened Thrash Truppe um Mainman James McBain kündigen ihr viertes Langeisen an, das den Titel “Coronach” tragen wird. Passend zur Verkündigung geht heute auch die erste Videoauskopplung `Hunderprest` online, die euch einen ersten Eindruck gibt. Das komplette “Coronach” Album folgt am 27. März.
James McBain schreibt:
“‘Hunderprest’, hits immediately with a chaotic deluge of dissonance, and is what I felt to be the perfect way to open the album — leaving the listener with no time to prepare. Based on the legend of Hunderprest, or “dog priest” – the vampire of Melrose Abbey. The sinful chaplain inherited his nickname because of his habit of hunting on horseback with his pack of hounds. After his death, legend says he was buried in the graveyard of Melrose Abbey; and because his spirit could not find peace, he would rise from his grave when night fell to harass the villagers and his former mistress to satisfy his bloodthirst. He was eventually defeated when a group of monks from Melrose Abbey exhumed Hunderprest’s blood-soaked body in broad daylight and set it on fire, throwing the ashes into the wind to be sure that the vampire would no longer be able to torment the town. Musically, the track primarily takes influence from a mixture of thrash (Kreator, Merciless, Metallica) and black (Watain, Rotting Christ, Tribulation) metal, with a healthy dose of some more „atmospheric“ d-beat elements from the likes of Oathbreaker and Fall of Efrafa.”
Im März sind HELLRIPPER auch wieder bei uns live unterwegs. Und zwar auf der “Goatkraft And Granite“ Tour 2026, mit Schizophrenia und Sarcator.
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Lyrics:
The great death rattle symphony plays in the fall of night
In dust and dream, and in between, there hides a deadly bite
The claws of tribulation scrape across your back
Serenity fades in the morbid black
The call of the moon, the darkness in bloom
The kirkyard alive in beautiful gloom
The breath of the wild, a sinister smile
Rise from the vile, to hunt and beguile
Hunderprest
The grave is my sanctuary for all impulse and sin
I fuck, I feed, the cunts they bleed, and quell the need within
Sacred and sanguinary is the aftermath of lust
Another onto Satan’s pyre thrust
The call of the moon, the darkness in bloom
The taste of the flesh, the violent swoon
A beauty divine, nocturnally mine
To hell confined, forever entwined
Hunderprest
Sleepless in death
I am the fang, I am your fate, I am the fire, I am hate
I am the void, I am the wraith, I am the storm, I am the plague
Marred be the land on which I roam, betwixt the shadows and the stones
Lurking in chiropteran form, smug in the ire of the storm
From the earth’s ungodly womb rise the coffinborn
Hordes of the cloister die in vain, and in excruciating pain
So it shall begin… His vampiric majesty’s reign
I will break the chains, and I will walk through flame
The ruins of Melrose will be haunted by my name
A never ending curse of sickness to enjoy
I function only to destroy
Dread
Soul reaver
Dread
Doom weaver
Coronach Trackliste
1 Hunderprest
2 Kinchyle (Goatkraft and Granite)
3 The Art of Resurrection
4 Baobhan Sith (Waltz of the Damned)
5 Blakk Satanik Fvkkstorm
6 Sculptor’s Cave
7 Mortercheyn
8 Coronach
Photo Credit: Sven Bernhardt