ODIOUS DEVOTION - Ylistysvirret - CD !!! PRE-ORDER !!!

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Signal Rex announces Ylistysvirret, the forthcoming new album from Finnish black metal entity ODIOUS DEVOTION, due for release this autumn on CD and vinyl LP.

Formed in Finland in 2018, ODIOUS DEVOTION emerged that same year with their self-titled debut. What followed was Consecration in 2020 and Ilmestys in 2021, three releases that gradually established a sound built from raw black metal, long-form composition, stark melody and ambient passages.

Five years after Ilmestys, ODIOUS DEVOTION now return with Ylistysvirret.

The title translates roughly as "Hymns of Praise", although little here should be understood in any comfortable devotional sense. Across its previous recordings, ODIOUS DEVOTION has worked within the colder and more atmospheric reaches of Finnish black metal without simply reproducing its most familiar forms. Harsh repetition and forward momentum exist beside extended melodic lines and quieter, almost suspended passages, allowing the songs to develop gradually rather than serving as collections of disconnected riffs.

That approach was already evident on the project's earliest recordings, but Ilmestys pushed it considerably further. Released in 2021, the album reduced its structure to four pieces, two of them extending beyond nine minutes, leaving considerably more space for repetition, contrast and slow transformation. Ylistysvirret arrives after the longest silence in ODIOUS DEVOTION's recorded history and begins the next chapter of that progression.

ODIOUS DEVOTION remains the work of V. Pasanen, responsible for guitars, vocals, bass, drums and synthesizers on Ylistysvirret.

Mastered at Trollhouse Audio