US-based Progressive Heavy Metal band High Council is proud to introduce the new single “Plaguebringer 2025,” taken from the upcoming album “Cruel And Unusual,” whose release date is set on April 11, 2025.
“Plaguebringer 2025” narrates the coming of a female entity who brings plagues and atrocities, deceiving men with her melodious voice. The woman is preparing to destroy humanity, protected by one of Judah‘s sons, but when he is defeated, she decides to refuse to live.
Stream “Plaguebringer 2025” here:
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Pre-Order the album “Cruel And Unusual” as CD and double-LP vinyl here: https://tinyurl.com/22n546y9
“Cruel And Unusual,” band’s second full-length album and seventh release overall, features eight tracks of glorious Epic Metal and represents the culmination of years the band has spent honing both its performance and songwriting skills. This collection of stone-cold bangers ferries the listener between moods and dynamics like the proverbial boatman across the River Styx, visiting straight-ahead Rockers like title-track and “To From Whence,” dynamic epics like “Routed in the Wood (By Eldlings and Brackenguard)” and “Plaguebringer 2025,” and the pits of bleakest despair on the powerful yet despondent “Jackal.” Though honed in the fires of Traditional Heavy Metal, the new effort also betrays hints of Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, classically-influenced guitar work, and even notes of Alternative Rock, while throughout, guitarist/vocalists Bob Saunders and Steve Donahue display trademark vocal and guitar harmonies that would bring even the most distant and uncaring pantheon of pagan deities to collective elation. From the soaring harmonies of opener “Cruel and Unusual” to the ecstatic synth leads of the closing instrumental, “Wildspace,” the album is destined to unite legions of metal maniacs under its banner forevermore.
Lineup:
Bob Saunders / Guitars, Vocals
Steve Donahue / Guitars, Vocals
Lou DiDomenico / Bass, Keyboards
Greg “Wolfman Vegas” McKeever / Drums
