Sinistrum have put The Hammer of Conquest online in full, two days before Remorseless Records releases it on Friday.
It is the second full length from the death and thrash band out of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, following Infernal Dawn in 2024 and the Trichotomy of Death EP in 2022. Ten tracks, opening on a short piece called Prelude and closing on Bloodwar, with a cover of Kreator's Flag of Hate placed ninth.
The titles in between hold to one subject from end to end, conquest and the wars that came with it, from Scourge Awakened and Empire of Gnawed Bone through Cataclysm Machines to Under Monfort's Cross. Remorseless Records has it on CD under catalogue number RR021.
Putting the whole record up two days early rather than on the morning of release gives anyone who wants it a weekend with the thing before deciding, which counts for more at this end of the scene than it does for a band with a budget behind the announcement.