Posthum Releases New Album "The Black Northern Ritual"

The Norwegian black metal missionaries from Posthum are pleased to unleash the unholy fruits of their third full-length, "The Black Northern Ritual."

Recorded by Morten Opsahl Thomassen, who worked on the band's 2012 "Lights Out" opus alongside the band, mixed by George Tanderø, and mastered by Peter In De Betou, "The Black Northern Ritual" is a seven track, forty-minute offering of audio hate, acrimony and disease bedecked in a cold, callous atmosphere that's difficult to dismiss.

"To have George Tanderø mixing the album was an easy choice," said Posthum drummer Morten Edseth. "We needed a person with not only skills, but also talent and an open mind. George has the worked with a variety of artists spanning from A-ha and Satyricon to Travis and Cat Stevens. We knew he was the person who was up to the task and to get the best out of the songs we had written and recorded. What we got back was nothing else but perfection, groove and just the right sound for the songs."

Lyrically, "The Black Northern Ritual" centers itself on rebellion against the false and corrupted values of the modern western world. "The lyrics are to me a purifying ritual, an inner journey to keep myself in balance, kind of a safe-place where I never have to escape from," notes Kristian Skare. "I also seek inspiration from the forever-pure nature, and the frustration on how we blindly let it suffer. Sometimes it`s like the universe speaks to me, then I just write down the lyrics as I listen to the arrangements which flows around inside my head."

1. Demon Black Skies
2. Condemned
3. To The Pits
4. The Black Northern Ritual
5. Vinter
6. A Disappearing Sun
7. North