Serpent have put The Pit and the Pendulum online in full through Hammerheart Records, the night before the record is released.
The album is on our own release calendar for 13 November, which is tomorrow, so anybody who wanted to hear it before deciding has a few hours rather than none. Hammerheart has been doing this with most of its catalogue lately, putting the whole thing up as a single stream rather than feeding out singles.
The band comes from Stockholm and has been active since 2000, which puts this record a long way into a catalogue most people outside the underground never started. Poe gave them the title, and the artwork and the track titles are the only part of the record that was public until tonight. Putting an album up the night before release rather than on the day is a small thing that decides whether anybody hears it at all, for a band this far outside the places records get reviewed.