The official video for BLUTGOTT’s “War of the Beast Hordes” is available on the project’s official YouTube channel following its November 5 announcement. The song comes from the double-album Die Schlacht Um Knochenheim / Death Of The Bloodking, released October 30 and out now.
Alongside the song’s video, BLUTGOTT has shared a second official clip featuring live footage from its current tour. The announcement supplies no tour itinerary or title for that separate video.
Both releases arrive within Thomas Gurrath’s interconnected BLUTGOTT Metal Universe, which brings together DEBAUCHERY’s death metal, BLOOD GOD’s heavy metal and BALGEROTH’s German metal. The announcement compares their separate and collective identities to comic-book characters appearing individually and together as the Avengers.
The lyrical setting is the World of Blood Gods, populated by demonic vampire-dragons. Its stories extend beyond music into miniatures, a tabletop wargame, books and artwork. The announcement describes the musical framework as “Dark Fantasy Metal” and states: “There is no political or socio-critical message.”
The supplied background spans 20 years, 20 albums and more than 40 CDs, with Judas Priest, Slayer, AC/DC, Rammstein and Bolt Thrower cited as musical reference points. Singer and guitarist Gurrath creates the music and monsters and writes the World of Blood Gods. A former teacher who became a full-time metal artist, he operates without a manager, booker or external songwriters. Albums are now released through the project’s own BLUTGOTT Metal Universe label.
Gurrath produces most of the artwork and stories, with past collaborations including Adrian Smith, associated with Warhammer; Jan Meininghaus, associated with Bolt Thrower; Kris Verwimp, associated with Marduk; and Graham McNeill, the New York Times best-selling Horus Heresy author. These are background collaborations rather than credits assigned to the newly announced videos.
Some songs have involved Tim Ripper Owens of Judas Priest and KK’s Priest, Michelle Darkness of End of Green, and Tom Naumann of Primal Fear. Almost all studio albums were recorded with Dennis Ward, whose cited work includes Helloween, Unisonic and Krokus.
The various incarnations of the BLUTGOTT Metal Universe have performed throughout Europe, Russia and Asia. Their touring history includes Doro, Saxon, Dismember, Napalm Death, Destruction, Six Feet Under and Marduk, alongside appearances at Wacken, With Full Force, Summer Breeze and Bang Your Head. Those historical appearances are separate from the current tour documented in the second video.
The announcement also notes coverage in Der Spiegel and BILD, as well as recurring collaborations with mainstream media, including ZDF Neo’s Wildes Deutschland and ZDF’s Soko Stuttgart.
