Wrath of Logarius Usher in New Realm with Crown of Mortis

No matter what skeletal form they assume, Wrath of Logarius aren’t bound by black metal’s strict traditions. The band’s debut album crowns them kings of a new realm for the underground: formless black metal.

“What a fresh perspective”, Metal Bite writes in a 9/10 review for Crown of Mortis. “For every second’s worth of savagery, you’ll also take in striking melodic passages and slow-burning parts that feels as if you’ve been placed on the rack; relentlessly dragging the depths; turning up the filth of human existence with every dooming riff”.

“For a debut album, the record is very concise, compact and fluid”, says Pedro from A&P Reacts. “There’s a little bit of everything pushing this record in different directions and that gives the sound a much richer texture than if it was just a black metal album”.

Crown of Mortis comes out this Friday, April 4 on Season of Mist, but you can hear all nine boundless songs today by listening to the full album stream on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.

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Though they hail from the misty forests of Northern California, it’s fitting that whispers of Wrath of Logarius began amongst the digital realm. After all, the band are named after a notoriously difficult video game dungeon master.

“Right away, everyone who heard them knew this band sounds different”, says John Barbas of Heavy Metal Philosophy.

Crown of Mortis follows the immediate aftermath of Wrath of Logarius’ viral takeover. Each song twists into a uniquely horrific tale that serves the larger plot of its accursed king. “Unfathomable” opens the album as if trapped in another nightmarish dimension, though its narrator’s ominous transmission can’t stop lead single “Keeper of the Spectral Legion” from rolling out the blood red carpet for an army of the undead.

“Ancient – Power – Cosmic – Legion“, Noctifer growls during the song’s punchy, bone-crushing chorus before his gutturals climb into throat-scraped agony.

Just like their notorious namesake, it’s impossible to predict which way Wrath of Logarius will attack next on Crown of Mortis. Since their infectious EP, these skeletal wraiths have leveled up in brute strength. “Long Dead the King” marches to the blistering pace set by Lord Marco’s punishingly precise blast beats. Strega axeman Urath and Vastator boobytrap “Lurker’s Tomb” with knuckle-dragging chugs and maze-like shredding.

“There are a score of reasons why Crown of Mortis should be experienced”, writes The Razors Edge, “and the first in my mind is utter obliteration”

But Wrath of Logarius’ first full-length also ups their chilling sense for atmosphere with hair-raising skill. Beneath the slithering stomp of “The Ethereal Mist” emerges Vilhelm of Grima with freshly rotten snarls. “Of the Void” cycles through the many moonlit phases of black metal. Classic tremolo picking whips like a howling wind, only to climb into a solo that drips with despair. “Surrounded by the mist of emptiness“, Noctifer shrieks as the album’s dread-inducing closer ascends into the astral plane. “The fear subsides for now I breathe again“.

On Crown of Mortis, Wrath of Logarius bend black metal to fit their formless rule.

More praise for Wrath of Logarius

“Lord Marco’s drum work is ridiculous here and is almost making my vision vibrate” – Teeth of the Divine

“Progressive-ish, melodic death metal-infused black metal that takes some time to slow things down with some lurching doom from time to time…It certainly kept me guessing” – Metal Injection

“…eerie, melodic, haunting and layered. But they aren’t afraid to incorporate other elements, even flirting with brutal death metal and slam in moments” – MetalSucks

“This scratches my modern black metal itch and then some” – Wonderbox Metal

Unfathomable (1:05) Keeper of the Spectral Legion (4:37) Erosion (4:26) Of the Void (5:35) Long Dead the King (4:30) Crypt (1:03) The Ethereal Mist (Feat Vilhelm of Grima) (4:45) Lurker's Tomb (6:22) Dread (4:49)