URGEHAL's 'Rise Of The Monument' Demo To Be Released On CD With Bonus Tracks

October 7, 2009

"Rise Of The Monument", the second demo from Norway's black metal masters URGEHAL (featuring ex-KVIST members and current members of VULTURE LORD, CREST OF DARKNESS, ASMEGIN, FORGOTTEN REALMS, and BLOODSWORN) — which was previously only available on limited tape and picture disc (via Agonia Records),has now been released on CD through Folter Records. As a special bonus, it contains a 45-minute live set from the Under The Black Sun festival in 2008.

The complete track listing is as follows:

01. Måtte Blodet Flomme
02. Souls Of Black Blood
03. Fortært Av Skogens Skapninger
04. En Legende Av Mørket
05. Vintermørke
06. Towards Dimension Unseen
07. The Forest Of Illusion
08. Satanic Black Metal In Hell (live)
09. Risus Sardonius (live)
10. Dødsmarsj Til Helvete (live)
11. Raise The Symbols Of Satan (live)
12. Goatcraft Torment (live)
13. Antichrist (SEPULTURA Cover) (live)
14. Antireligiøs (live)
15. Mirror Satan (live)
16. We Are Unholy (live)

URGEHAL will release its new album, "Ikonoklast", on November 16 in Europe and January 12 in the U.S. via Season of Mist's Underground Activists division. According to a press release, the band's sixth opus "offers impressive dynamics from doom-laden solemnity to furious outbreaks. An unholy groove adds to the malignant atmosphere permeating this Norwegian masterpiece. With their roots tight in the past URGEHAL now reach for the future of black metal! None shall resist!"

"Ikonoklast" track listing:

01. Stesolid Self-Destruction To Damnation
02. Dødelagt
03. Cut Their Tongue Shut Their Prayer
04. The Necessity Of Total Genocide
05. Kniven Rider Dypt I Natt
06. Astral Projection To Rabid Hell
07. Approaching Doom
08. Holocaust In Utopia
09. Sopor Necrosanctus

URGEHAL celebrated its 15 year-anniversary in 2007 by releasing the album "The Eternal Eclipse - 15 Years Of Satanic Black Metal".

Video footage of URGEHAL's September 14, 2009 concert in New York City can be viewed below (courtesy of "loginkill").

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