Atlanta (GA) – U.S. Black Metal band Überchriist have released the official video for “Serpent’s Shroud,” the second single from forthcoming album Dæmonic Apotheosis.
“Serpent’s Shroud” is also available on streaming platforms, including Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Dæmonic Apotheosis, the band’s second full-length album, is out September 25 via Deanwell Global Music.
First coming together in embryonic form in 2010 by two local musicians whose human names are long forgotten, Überchriist formed with the purpose of transcending the boundaries between human, demon and god. Now a quartet, the band has spent the years since sharpening that idea into Dæmonic Apotheosis. What phantasmagorical wonders and horrors could await in this unconscious realm of the unknown? For only facing the deepest darkness can bring true enlightenment, and that is the ultimate goal of this musical undertaking.
Transformation is the thread running through Dæmonic Apotheosis. Ten tracks, 38:23, and most of them pull downward. Apotheosis is elevation to the divine, and on this record the road there runs straight down.
“Anti-Phoenix Descent” opens the album and was the first single. It leans on maritime musical themes, a journey down into the abyss in the company of the titular water elemental, and it works as a battle cry for the madness that follows. “Serpent’s Shroud,” the forthcoming second single (9/18/26) turns inward. Tears, terror, and the last threads of the mortal coil fall away, and the serpent offers the shroud of transformation. Being wrapped in it is not burial. It’s rebirth. Relentless blast beats carry the self down layer by layer into the voids beneath the darkest lands. The other eight songs go through the abyss, demonic transformation, hell, tombs, voids, and rites carried out somewhere well below ground level.
Musically this is classic black metal at the root. Blast beats, tremolo picking, all the cold. But the band lets melody in when a song asks for it, and there’s a real streak of old-school heavy metal in the riffing.
Track Listing:
1. Anti-Phoenix Descent (5:43)
2. Serpent’s Shroud (3:14)
3. Vicissitudes Ov Fate (3:40)
4. Tomb Creeper (2:59)
5. Faith In Darkness (3:59)
6. Black Void (4:30)
7. Subterranean Goat Transfiguration (3:25)
8. Everdark Calling (2:38)
9. Awakening Ancient Power (3:16)
10. Psychocosm (4:59)
Credits:
Überchriist is Überroth (vocals, guitar), Blastphümii (drums), Voidseer (vocals, guitar) and Namirrah (bass).
Recorded and mixed by Thomas Morton at Bookhouse Recording.
Mastered by Thomas Morton at Jamgood Mastering.
Cover art by Jacob Gurganus.
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