NEW SKELETAL FACES / DECIBEL MAGAZINE
New Skeletal Faces have shared an unreleased track with Decibel Mag for the next instalment of their Decibel Flexi Series. Grab a copy to check it out! Here’s what they said:
Death rock corpse-shakers @newskeletalfaces ruled all faces on their recent Peaceville Records debut, Until the Night. If you’ve ever smoked a clove cigarette while listening to De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, then the band’s extreme take on death rock is right up your sketchy alley. And your fiends at Decibel are all too happy to send you down another dark path with an exclusive new track via the Decibel Flexi Series. “Deterioration” ships directly with issue #244 to all who who have an active deluxe Decibel subscription! This offer expires on Friday, November 29 at noon ET, so get moving, especially since all new Decibel subscriptions are 20% through then!
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NEW SKELETAL FACES NEW ALBUM UNTIL THE NIGHT OUT NOW
The new album from California death-rock trio New Skeletal Faces is out today. Titled Until The Night, the album delves deep into the forgotten, dark underbelly of rock and roll, taking inspiration from the blackened brutality of bands such as Bathory and Christian Death. Alongside the album release – the band’s first on the Peaceville label – New Skeletal Faces have also shared a new video for the track ‘Ossuary Lust’. Speaking about the new video, vocalist Errol Fritz said “Ossuary Lust was filmed at a chapel and cemetery we broke into. With the sorcery of the unholy on our side, no one prevented our blasphemic perverse rituals”. Filmed by Gaberealhell. Directed and edited by Gaberealhell and New Skeletal Faces. Featuring Chlobra. Check it out here:
Aardschok – 82/100 “a very commendable album”
Metal.it – “Can black metal be combined with ’80s dark rock? For this trio, the answer is an absolute yes”
Metallerium – “an album that is well balanced within that distressing sound and with a lot of darkness in between”
RockHard – 8/10 “There are records that catch you with the first notes, and “Until The Night” is one of them…the album is a banger”
Musikreviews.de – 11/15 “deliberately ugly and offensive – darkness as an inevitable lifestyle instead of a pose”
Legacy – 13/15 “The songs are simple, effective, organic and exude an energy that we haven’t heard in a long time. So scary and beautiful. … Creatures of the night, gather and dance, because this is where your music plays!”
Sonic Seducer – “The original times, the eighties, are revived without appearing dusty or copied. An album, impetuous, unbridled, unironized, full of anger…”
Miserable Metal Mind – “channels the spirits of old school metal with the gothic aesthetics of Christian Death blended with the black metal of Bathory”
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NEW SKELETAL FACES SHARE DETAILS OF NEW ALBUM
UNTIL THE NIGHT (1st November)
After recently announcing their signing with Peaceville, California death-rockers New Skeletal Faces are back with a new single and details of their upcoming album, Until The Night.
The single, also titled ‘Until The Night’, premiered at Decibel Magazine and is the first track from the band’s Peaceville debut, delving deep into the forgotten, dark underbelly of rock and roll. “Until The Night is about the ritualistic deviancies partaken by the lost souls of our planet” the band say. “It’s an anthem for the heathens that plague the night.” The album, recorded and mixed by Bill Metoyer (Slayer/W.A.S.P.), is set for release on November 1st.
Alongside the single comes a raucous new video directed by Gaberealhell. Speaking about the video, the band said, “The video for “Until The Night” captures the true essence of the song and lifestyle of the band. Done with little planning and no storyboard, you can feel the uncertain, spontaneous atmosphere”.
AVAILABLE ON: LIMITED EDITION ‘STARLIGHT’ SPARKLE VINYL, BLACK VINYL (BOTH INCLUDE ADDITIONAL POSTER AND SPECIAL GOLD FOIL FINISH ON FRONT COVER), CD AND DIGITALLY
NEW SKELETAL FACES – UNTIL THE NIGHT
Disexist [05:14]
Until The Night [04:12]
Ossuary Lust [05:05]
Wombs [04:44]
Zeitgeist Suicide [04:57]
Pagan War [05:04]
Enchantment Of My Inner Coldness [05:25]
Raise The Dead [03:16]
The band’s Peaceville debut, Until The Night (which follows in the path of 2019‘s Celestial Disease full-length release) further enriches New Skeletal Faces’ effortless blending of the spirits of old; with the seductive & spellbinding gothic prowess of bands such as Christian Death fused with the raw unbridled energy of early Swedish black metal legend, Bathory to create a bold new statement of intent, in stark contrast to the often overly-refined polish of contemporary metal. Until the Night is, as a result, something more akin to listening to the 1980’s Sunset Strip in an alternate universe from hell.
