Polish Black Metal band Batushka will release their new album, Hospodi July 12th via Metal Blade Records, which they have been teasing online all week. Named after an Old Church Slavonic word for “God,” Hospodi enhances all the unique qualities that made the band such an instant phenomenon while offering an entirely distinct and fresh sensory experience. Watch the video for the new song, Batushka “Chapter I: The Emptiness – Polunosznica (Полунощница)” now!
The band will release its sophomore album Hospodi through Metal Blade Records on 12th July. The album is available for pre-order here: https://batushka.lnk.to/hospodi
“The whole album is a concept based on the Liturgy of Death, the prayers for the dead, and Orthodox funeral rites and dirges,” said the band. “It’s all about a ritual that involves the dead and the mourners. We also used a lot of old folk songs and elegies from our homeland. These are sung during the wake, around the casket, in the deceased person’s home. Nowadays only a few older people know them and still sing them accordingly in our region. We decided to cherish that tradition and I’m glad that with our album these songs and rites will survive.”
Batushka will make one very special live appearance in the UK at Download Festival on Saturday 15th June. Worldwide headline tour announcements to follow.
Hospodi will be available in several configurations, listed below.
-Limited edition digibook CD
-Deluxe box set (wooden box, digibook CD, clear/black marbled vinyl, DVD, hard cover book, incense box, candles, pin, guitar pick – limited to 800 copies)
-Deluxe box set (EU Webshop exclusive – wooden box, digibook CD, blood splatter vinyl, DVD, hard cover book, incense box, candles, pin, guitar pick – limited to 200 copies)
-180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
-Amber marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 500 copies)
-Dead gold marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
-Blood-red black marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 200 copies)
-Clear/red/black splatter vinyl (EU Webshop exclusive – limited to 100 copies)
-Gold / black split vinyl (US retail exclusive – 500 copies)
-Cream w/ black splatter vinyl (US webstore exclusive – 500 copies)
-Black w/ gold haze vinyl (US webstore exclusive – 500 copies)
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