Italy’s Hierophant will be touring the greater part of Europe throughout December, January and February in support of their forthcoming new album, Peste, which will be available 11/25/14 from Bridge Nine. The band recently premiered a new track from the album, “Inganno”, on CVLTNation.com.
Peste is the follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed Great Mother : Holy Monster LP which was called “a searing brand of no-holds-barred dark hardcore” by Big Cheese Magazine. It was hard to fathom Italy’s Hierophant harnessing the potential to create a record heavier and more malicious than its predecessor, an already pummeling whiplash of American D-beat-inflected metallic hardcore. Lo and behold: Peste manages just that as a superior, succinctly crushing assault, its tendencies largely erring on the side of European death metal. Hierophant spell out the desolation and desperation leveled by a war amid the id, ego and super-ego, all torturous, violent imagery and morbid, damning assertions that make it a pleasantly grim nightmare to suffer through.
Hierophant’s Peste is available for pre-order now via B9Store.com, and pre-orders will include a limited edition 7″ that features the track “Inganno” as well as a cover of Nirvana’s “Negative Creep”.
HIEROPHANT – ON TOUR (More Dates Announced Soon)
December 5 Bronson, Ravenna, Italy “Peste Release Party” *
December 19 La Zone, Liege, Belgium
December 20 Vrankrijk, Amsterdam, Holland
December 21 Pits, Kortrijk, Belgium
January 20 Stag & Hound, Bristol, UK #
January 21 The Old Blue Last, London, UK #
January 22 Sticky Mikes, Brighton, UK #
January 23 Wheatsheaf, Oxford, UK #
February 4 LoFi, Milano, Italy ^
February 7 Burning Light Fest, Lisboa, Portugal ^
February 12 Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium ^
February 13 dB’s, Utrecht, Holland ^
February 14 Bambi Galore, Hamburg, Germany ^
February 16 KB18, Copenhagen, Denmark ^
February 17 Cassiopeia, Berlin, Germany ^
February 19 Durer Kert, Budapest, Hungary ^
February 20 Ann and Pat, Linz, Austria ^
February 21 Le Romandie, Losanna, Switzerland ^
February 22 Freakout, Bologna, Italy ^
# w/ Bastions
^ w/ Mutilation Rites
Peste track listing:
1) Inganno
2) Masochismo
3) Nostalgia
4) Sadismo
5) Apatia
6) Paranoia
7) Sottomissione
8) Alienazione
9) Egoismo
10) Inferno
