The tetralogy was finished in 2024 and the coffin still had one nail left in the box. Panzerfaust have released "All Grounds Zeroed", a new song that works as the epilogue to The Suns Of Perdition, and the band call it exactly that: the last nail in the coffin.
It arrives at the end of a record that predates the whole series. The Lucifer Principle, recorded in 2014 and released in 2016, returns on 4 December through Eisenwald as a tenth anniversary redux, and the band present it as the conceptual precursor to the four albums that followed, the point at which they became the group they are now. The title comes from Howard Bloom's book, which argues that evil is a product of evolution rather than a flaw in one man.
The running order is "The First Con Man, The First Fool", "The Jerusalem Syndrome", "Axis Mundi", a reading of Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down" and then the new one. "Axis Mundi" was on the original and came out again as a single a month ago, running close to twelve minutes.
Greg Dawson, who produced the record the first time and whom the band treat as a fifth member, remixed and remastered it at BWC Studios, and the drummer Alexander Kartashov played every drum part again at Deadwing Studios. The band formed in 2005 and have been working this seam since The Dark Age of Militant Paganism in 2008.