Shortly after announcing the album completion, Witherscape have now unveiled all the details about it. The progressive death metal outfit confirm the worldwide release of their sophomore full-length album The Northern Sanctuary for July 22nd, 2016 via Century Media Records. The album is another conceptual album, enhanced by powerful artwork courtesy of Hungarian artist Gyula Havancsák (Nightingale, Destruction, Týr, etc.). Feast your eyes on it below.

Once more lyrically supported by Paul Kuhr (Novembers Doom), Witherscape continue the story line launched with the debut album, as Swanö explains: "The theme picks up where we left off with the The New Tomorrow EP. There is a 50 year jump in the time line from the 1st album and the main character 'Mannen i vitt' (The man in white) has purchased the house where all the horror initially happened. He's restored it and rents out rooms to people from the big cities, who are aiming for some peaceful northern Swedish silence. But the entity still haunts the house and 'Mannen i vitt' is possessed by it, so consequently he/it does terrible things to the 'patients'. Since the house is built on one of the gates to hell, there's a ritual taking place, opening the hellish dimension from where the evil entity once came, so it can go back there..."

Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Witherscape