Debut full length from Ancient Torment. Releases on August 1, pre-order currently available (limited to 300 copies)

ETERNAL DEATH is proud to present ANCIENT TORMENT's highly anticipated debut album, Follow the Echo of Curses, on CD, with a vinyl version to later come from Goatowarex.

From the coastal reaches of New England, Rhode Island-based ANCIENT TORMENT have emerged as a leading torchbearer in the region's black metal underground. The band formed around the core dominion established by guitarist Tormentum and drummer Zealot (both erstwhile members of Witch King) during the winter of 2016, with a handful of short-length releases in the years that followed.

Now, nearly a decade after their inception, ANCIENT TORMENT are prepared to unleash their first full-length. Aptly titled Follow the Echo of Curses, the band's debut album is an immersive, introspective journey through the shadows of abysmal suffering and mysteries of death's embrace.

"When the debt of fortune outweighs wishes granted Severance of life shines in the benign. To know the accursed share Which propels their charade; Down the well Falls the precious gift of life Hung by its own cord from a dead star" - "Dejected Dreams Molested in Purgatory" Indeed, Follow the Echo of Curses is a sharp, sterling summation of the ANCIENT TORMENT aesthetic this past decade, but given full flight through the quintet's most epic & compelling compositions to date. Within a duration of 42 minutes, the album's six component tracks stretch out whilst remaining urgent every breathless step of the way. Likewise, the band's melancholic melodicism is upfront, but it's fired with a passion that makes each of these epics feel much quicker than their generous runtimes suggest.

Of especial note is the album's recording, a symbiosis of form and content. Follow the Echo of Curses was recorded at Distorted Forest Studio, a space of reclusive solitude in the woods of northern Rhode Island, over the early months of 2024. It was mixed by Josh Welshman (Flux Studios NYC), mastered by Dan Lowndes (Resonance Sound Studio), and art work from David Thiérrée with an overall production that traverses the caustic and sublime. A testament to the mysteries of true death worship, driven by nuanced aggression and drenched in cold melodies, it covers themes that span the swirling depths of depravity, suffering, and infernal release. ANCIENT TORMENT have at last arrived to reclaim bloodied ground.