WAYFARER Announce New Album “A Romance With Violence”, Pre-Orders Now Live
Today WAYFARER announce their new album “A Romance With Violence” to be released Oct 16 on CD/LP/Digital. Listen to a new track below and pre-order “A Romance With Violence” HERE.
WAYFARER is black metal of the American West. A cavalcade of fury, melancholia, and dust-laden storytelling; the band is informed by the fierce and adventurous spectrums of heavy music, along with the stark Americana of the “Denver Sound” artists that carved the identity of their home.
In “A Romance With VIolence”, their most fully realized effort to date, WAYFARER presents a searing silver-screen requiem for the myth of the West. This new work sees them at their most intense and triumphant, as well as at their most pensive. Bold, rhythmic and riff laden, the band’s pointed expedition across the frontiers of black and extreme metal are tinged with the grit and genuine air of artists like Sixteen Horsepower and Jay Munly, and the majestic heights of the Ennio Morricone/Sergio Leone collaborations. Through seven harrowing anthems of the high plains, the album paints a poignant exploration of heroes and killers, the setting sun on a romantic era, and the shadow it has cast on the world we live in today.
Recorded in the midst of the pandemic by Pete deBoer (Blood Incantation, Dreadnought), “A Romance With Violence” was mixed by the inimitable Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts), and Mastered by V. Santura (Triptykon, Dark Fortress).
“A Romance With Violence” track listing:
- The Curtain Pulls Back
- The Crimson Rider (Gallows Frontier, Act I)
- The Iron Horse (Gallows Frontier, Act II)
- Fire & Gold
- Masquerade Of The Gunslingers
- Intermission
- Vaudeville
*Album cover photograph graciously borrowed from “Temporary and Permanent Bridges and Citadel rock, Green River, Wyoming” by Andrew Joseph Russell, 1868. Image edited by Shane McCarthy, with additional illustration by Adam Gersh.
