Sarpanitum Streams New Track "By Virtuous Reclamation"

With the release of "Blessed Be My Brothers," the forthcoming new long player from atmospheric blackened death metal troupe Sarpanitum, now less than two weeks away, today the track "By Virtuous Reclamation" is thrust forward. Listen in below, courtesy of Stereogum.com.

Captured at Dreaming Studios U.K. by drummer Leon Macey (Contrarian, Mithras, The Senseless et al) and centered on the abysmal consequence of religious warfare, Sarpanitum's "Blessed Be My Brothers" heaves with a deliciously diseased synthesis of traditional death metal, blackened riff onslaughts, and perverse melodic atmospheres.

Relays guitarist/bassist Tom Hyde: "The song takes place during the Council of Clermont, specifically the speech given by Pope Urban II with the aim of manipulating Christian Europe into taking arms against Islam in the East and effectively starting what we now know to be the First Crusade. It is a grim reminder of how, throughout history, the elites exploit spirituality in order to make false claims and turn religions and races against each other in war. Musically it is filled with chaotic melody, brutally intense drumming and vibrantly ancient atmospheres."