“Fans of Martyrdöd, Nails, and The Secret should find a lot to love here.” – BlowTheScene

Listen to ‘Paranoia’, the second track to surface from Hierophant‘s forthcoming new album. This track appears on ‘Peste’, which will be available on November 25th on CD, LP and digital formats via Bridge Nine Records and is up for pre-order now via B9Store.com. Hierophant recently announced a slew of European tour dates that run December through February, and those can be found below. ‘Peste’ was recorded in Italy (where Hierophant is headquartered) at MV Multimedia Studio. This 10-song album 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 that’s characterized by bleak, unrelenting guitars and harsh, incomprehensible vocals” 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.

‘Peste’ track listing:

1) Inganno

2) Masochismo

3) Nostalgia

4) Sadismo

5) Apatia

6) Paranoia

7) Sottomissione

8) Alienazione

9) Egoismo

10) Inferno

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