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Hell Is Empty, and All The Devils Are Here is the fourth album by British post-black metal band Anaal Nathrakh, released on October 29th through Feto Records.
Musically, this album is the most experimental to date, keeping their roots firmly planted in harsh black metal & chaotic grind, yet adding more style elements such as Thrash & Death Metal.
[edit] Track listing
- "Solifugae (Intro)" – 1:05
- "Der Hölle Rache Kocht In Meinem Herzen" – 3:39
- "Screaming of the Unborn" – 2:46
- "Virus Bomb" – 3:36
- "The Final Absolution" – 3:55
- "Shatter the Empyrean" – 3:05
- "Lama Sabachthani" – 3:48
- "Until the World Stops Turning" – 2:53
- "Genetic Noose" – 3:34
- "Sanction Extremis (Kill Them All)" – 3:33
- "Castigation and Betrayal" – 4:02
[edit] Trivia
- The album title is a quote from the first act of William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Solifugae, which is latin for those that flee from the sun, is an order of arachnids, including most famously the camel spider.
- The title of the second track is German for "The Vengeance of Hell is Seething in My Heart." This is the official title of the "Queen of the Night's Aria" in Mozart's The Magic Flute.
- Virus Bomb appears to be a reference to the mass extinction "exterminatus" weapons used in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which depopulate a planet with a virus that then turns all organic material into flammable gas. The song's clean parts describe the ignition of the very air and a world perishing in flames in line with the descriptions in the recent Horus Heresy books. The song Sanction Extremis is also likely a reference to this practice, as an exterminatus is also referred to as a sanction extremis in the Warhammer 40,000 mythology.
- "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" were among the last words uttered by Jesus Christ as he died on the cross. Translated they mean, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
- Joe Horvath, singer of Circle Of Dead Children does guest vocals on the song "Genetic Noose".
[edit] External links
Feto Records
