Hollywood blackened horror metal band Ashen Horde's sophomore album, Nine Plagues, has been released, and is now available. You can get it and stream it via Bandcamp. Nine Plagues is available wherever digital music is sold, as well as on limited-edition CD (with bonus track).

Drawing influence from the crème de la extreme, Ashen Horde celebrates the darker side of metal in all its grim glory. Inspired by the whole of extreme metal, from black and death metal to grindcore and prog, Ashen Horde's music is technical and crushing, yet at times darkly melodic.

Nine Plagues is a concept album relaying the tale an isolated village that is savagely attacked by bloodthirsty invaders. The inhabitants are forced to take refuge in an unforgiving landscape, with tragedy crushing them at every turn. Each song details a different "plague" that befalls the refugees as they struggle to survive. The music is as grim and unforgiving as the story it carries.

Ashen Horde crept into the metal scene in 2013, with its debut EP, Ab Initio. This was followed by the critically acclaimed, debut full-length, Sanguinum Vindicta.

"Feral" lyric video:

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