Wraith will release Descent Into Darkness, their sixth album, on 13 November through Prosthetic Records, on vinyl, CD and digitally. CJ Rayson co-produced it during this year.
The subject is the First World War, which is less of a departure than it sounds: Matt Sokol, who sings, teaches history when he is not doing this. "Final Warning", the first song out, ties the political temperature before 1914 to the present one, and the argument it makes is that a disaster becomes inevitable at the point where its approach stops being news.
The quartet come from Indiana, formed in 2016, and play blackened speed metal with punk in the mechanism. Fueled By Fear, in 2024, was the last one.