The complete Realms of Sin album from Chile's DEATHWARDS is streaming on Sepulchral Voice Records' official YouTube channel. The stream was announced ahead of the band's debut album's October 30 international release through the label.
DEATHWARDS draw on late-1980s death metal and its thrash and speed metal roots. The announcement describes an approach centered on sharp riffs, aggressive vocals and unrestrained solos, with a raw performance character retained in the Equinox Studio production.
The album's lyrical framework draws heavily from Dante's Inferno, biblical imagery and medieval depictions of damnation. Guilt, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, fraud and eternal punishment inform material concerned with spiritual collapse, metaphysical suffering, divine judgment and human corruption.
Those themes also appear in the supplied tracklisting, which pairs song titles with references including Limbo, Violence, Treachery and Lucifer. The sequence runs from “Sting Of Guilt (Limbo)” to “Lawless Fire (Lucifer),” followed by “The Black Key,” identified as a bonus track.
Jorge Olavarria created the hand-painted oil cover artwork. The announcement emphasizes the record's individually crafted music, words and imagery, stating: “Nothing was designed by algorithms. Nothing was assembled from templates.” Preorder information was supplied through High Roller Records.
- Sting Of Guilt (Limbo)
- Supplicum (Lust)
- From Bread To Stone (Gluttony)
- Gold In The Abyss (Greed)
- Sullen Blood (Wrath)
- Unbound From Divine Omnipotence (Heresy)
- The Sore Weight Of Repentance (Violence)
- Worms Of Malebolge (Fraud)
- The Innermost Chasm (Treachery)
- Lawless Fire (Lucifer)
- The Black Key (Bonus Track)
