The title track from LUCIFUGE’s Under Wheels of Sacrilege premiered exclusively on Deaf Forever’s website on November 11, where the song is available to hear in full. It introduces the German band’s seventh album, scheduled for international release through Dying Victims Productions on January 29, 2027, on CD and vinyl LP.
The announcement describes an album that balances fast tempos with clean guitar breaks, classic heavy metal rhythms and traditional song structures. Dual guitars draw comparisons to Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy, while Sodom, early Bathory and Slayer remain primary influences.
Its production is described as polished and spacious, with a sound recalling 1986. The press announcement also points to greater melodic and rhythmic variety in the solos and places Equinox’s vocals further forward in the mix, characterizing the resulting approach as “epic BIKER METAL.”
LUCIFUGE formed in 2016 under Equinox’s direction, developing blackened speed metalpunk across the first three albums. Equinox expanded the project into a full lineup for Infernal Power, the fourth full-length, released in 2021 and the band’s first album for Dying Victims Productions.
The subsequent Monoliths of Wrath (2023) moved toward fast, classic thrash, drawing on Sodom, Kreator, Exodus and Slayer. The announcement identifies Hexensabbat as the record that completed that stylistic shift, establishing the second era that continues on Under Wheels of Sacrilege.
- Under Wheels of Sacrilege
- Black Wings of Boundless Chaos
- The Dust of Yesterday
- Consumed by Time and Rust
- Cathedral of The Void
- Sovereignty of the Mortal Flesh
- Returning to the Primal Flame
- The Cold Embrace of Death
- God Killing Machine
- The Stench of Misery
- An Unholy Oath
- Leave No Kingdom
