Stormpyre release On the Throne of a Forgotten God on 20 November through Signal Rex, their first album.
Ten titles, and four of them announce themselves as scaffolding: a prelude at the front, two interludes in the middle and a postlude at the end. That leaves six actual songs, which is a structure black metal borrowed from film music a long time ago and which usually means the record wants to be heard in one sitting.
Two of the six are already out as singles. A Darkened Prophecy came first and Rapture Made Flesh followed, and both sit on the melodic end of the genre rather than the raw one, which is also how Metal Archives files them.
The band are from Turku and work as a trio under names rather than names: Vorgoth Stormwrought plays guitar, bass and drums, Hexlord Jackal handles the synthesizers and Byal'Kruiv sings. The themes are listed as fantasy, and the song called Zro'Gaeth, Vassal Of Sun does not argue with that.
Signal Rex have been putting out this kind of record from Portugal for years.