Scythian Signs With Hells Headbangers, Posts Album Teaser

Hells Headbangers is proud to announce the signing of U.K. black/death metal cult Scythian. The band has signed on for two full-length albums, and is currently hard at work on a label debut (and second LP overall), to be recorded in November at Priory Studios in Birmingham with Esoteric's Greg Chandler. Scythian will commission macabre Czech artist Blanka Dvorak to do the cover.

Scythian is the first U.K. extreme metal band to sign with Hells Headbangers, and the label states that the forthcoming album will establish the band as a force of British individualism and take its existing sound on a darker, more dystopian journey. The album is as yet untitled, but a teaser video can be found below.

A statement from the band reads: "After ten years of fighting tooth and nail, we've finally come out on top. Times have been hard, but they've bred a new kind of band - one that will follow its ambitions to the ends of the earth. We are immensely proud to announce our pact with Hells Headbangers. This is a historic day for us and for the resurgent UK scene. Scythian is a metaphor for the unorthodox, relentless, and unfashionable sounds of London. Though the trends of the last ten years have always stood against us, we have endured and prospered. Let this album be our revenge on the mediocre and self-indulgent work of our times. Many bands talk of being individual, of 'having their own sound.' We have never known anything but our own path. The coming album will establish Scythian as a strong and independent force."