Nocturnis have released a video for Tituba, from Drangsal, which Fetzner Death Records puts out on 6 November.
Tituba was an enslaved woman in the household of Samuel Parris, the minister at Salem Village, and one of the first people accused of witchcraft in 1692. Her confession was obtained under intense pressure and it widened the accusations rather than ending them. She stayed in prison until 1693, when another enslaver paid her jail debts and took ownership of her, which is the part of the Salem story that rarely survives into the retellings.
The band do not treat it as horror material. They approach it as scapegoating, a frightened community finding somebody vulnerable to blame, and the music is built on a recurring, almost ritual vocal line whose repetition is the point.
The album follows the same progression across eight tracks, from accusation through trial to violence and what is left afterwards, opening with Liturgie and closing on a nine minute title track.
Guitarist Vincent Padrutt recorded and produced it, with Nikita Kamprad of Der Weg Einer Freiheit handling the drums, the mix and the master. The quintet formed in 2019 and asked a harder question on the last song they put out.