The doors have been closed on their first decade and now a new age beckons for De Profundis – a new age of darkness, rage and war! It’s been a long wait, but now the time has come to unleash the fifth album from the UKs masters of death. The Blinding Light Of Faith will be loosed from its chains on May 10th by Transcending Obscurity Records and De Profundis have never sounded heavier than this! This monstrous record shows the band opening up with a broadside of unspeakable firepower on the oppressive organised religions of the world, a defiant strike to shake the foundations of the houses of the holy.
Over the course of the year De Profundis will be releasing a video for every single track from The Blinding Light Of Faith and together these visual interpretations will form a stunning, interlinked depiction of the powerful themes of the album. This vast undertaking will be handled by Andy Pilkington of Very Metal Art who has worked with the band before on the macabre clip that accompanied the ‘An Orgy Of Grotesqueries’ track.
The first song from this video cycle to be released is the colossal lament of ‘Godforsaken’, its desolate words brought magnificently to life.
We live in dark times and De Profundis have delivered the perfect soundtrack to days such as these. Even the band’s established fans will be shocked by the levels of power that the band generate on tracks like the savage ‘War Be Upon Him’. The ambitious accompanying video project will only enhance the band’s reputation and ultimately their legacy as it underlines in no uncertain terms just what a landmark release The Blinding Light Of Faith truly is.
The second decade of De Profundis has begun – and war will soon be upon you.
Tracklist:
1. Obsidian Spires
2. War Be upon Him
3. Opiate for the Masses
4. Bastard Sons of Abraham
5. Martyrs
6. Godforsaken
7. Beyond Judgement
8. Bringer of Light
Pre-orders for the album are live now at Bandcamp with the album available in three different formats - eight panel, full colour hardcover digipak, digital download and limited edition, gold embossed box set. The limited edition box sets contain:
- autographed and hand numbered certificate cards, signed by the whole band
- the massive eight panel digipak edition of the album
- a gloss finished coaster
- a patch featuring the new De Profundis logo
- a guitar pick, also featuring the new band logo
- an exclusive album artwork sticker
In the words of the band: "The Blinding Light of Faith is an album about three of the most merciless and bloodthirsty institutions in human history. There is no nation or people on this earth who haven't suffered under the savagery of at least one of the Abrahamic religions and to reflect that suffering we have made the heaviest, most aggressive record of our career."
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LINEUP
Craig Land - Vocals
Shoi Sen - Guitars
Paul Nazarkardeh - Guitars
Arran McSporran - Fretless Bass
Tom Atherton - Drums
BIOGRAPHY
Over the course of their career DE PROFUNDIS have grown and developed at a prodigious rate, their music blossoming into ever more imaginative and challenging forms, reaching out in a multitude of diverse directions, leaving limiting genre definitions and regulations shattered in their wake. Blending unfettered creativity, fierce ambition and outstanding musicianship the band have so far unleashed four magnificent albums, including the ground breaking The Emptiness Within and the stunning Kingdom Of The Blind.
Kingdom Of The Blind, which was released through Wicker Man Recordings, a new subsidiary of ATMF, in 2015 was afforded lavish praise from critics across the world and hailed as undoubtedly the greatest De Profundis album to date. The torrent of glowing reviews lead to prestigious live appearances for the band, as they were invited to play with Enslaved, Grand Magus, Gorgoroth, Kampfar and Gehenna. In 2016 they also appeared at the Incineration Festival in London, one of the major extreme music meetings on the global calendar.
2017 marks the 10th Anniversary since the release of De Profundis’ first album, Beyond Redemption and a yearlong celebration of major events is well underway. The band started the year by hitting the road around the UK with Norwegian black metal kings Taake and renowned weavers of atmospheric darkness Fen. This tour marked the first appearance in the De Profundis live set of new song ‘An Orgy Of Grotesqueries’, a masterpiece of old school death metal, performed with De Profundis’ trademark skill and ingenuity. With the tour complete, ‘An Orgy Of Grotesqueries’ was then released as a powerful video single, with the dark and disturbing imagery created by Andy Pilkington of Very Metal Art (Flotsam And Jetsam).
With the new video still making waves with metal sites across the net, De Profundis were back on the road again for a full European tour with David Vincent of Morbid Angel’s new band, I Am Morbid. The package was completed by gore legends Necrophagia, US pagan metal warriors Helsott and openers The Heretic Order and saw De Profundis take their anniversary celebrations to Italy, Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands.
Upon their return from Europe it became clear that ‘An Orgy Of Grotesqueries’ was not destined to be just an addictive addition to the live set and the soundtrack to a chilling video release. The next announcement from the De Profundis camp was that they would be releasing a celebratory career retrospective album, entitled Decayed: 2007 – 2017. Decayed… is to be released exclusively with issue 079 of the world’s number one extreme music magazine, Zero Tolerance – no fewer than 10,000 copies heading out to every corner of the globe.
With album number five already recorded and plans for an autumn headline tour of the UK in the works, De Profundis’ 2017 celebrations look set to run and run…
DISCOGRAPHY
Beyond Redemption - 2007
A Bleak Reflection - 2010
The Emptiness Within - 2012
Kingdom of the Blind - 2015
The Blinding Light of Faith - 2018