Mortiis — the man who clearly refuses to stick to any one genre — is back with a new record, Ghosts of Europa, due out on June 26. The new album marks Mortiis’ debut on Prophecy Productions and is being introduced to the world via the title track and a music video written and directed by Claudio Marino.
This is definitely not a heavy track, but hey — Mortiis had one hell of a career in metal (and helped invent dungeon synth along the way), and we’d be remiss not to cover it.
Mortiis commented: “This song has tried many shapes and forms, until it finally sort of found itself. I never thought that it would end up this way. Strange, mysterious, and choral. It started out as a simple thing, a different song, with a different title, which got slowly de-constructed and altered.
“This did not happen due to dissatisfaction with the original, but because layers of new ideas appeared. As excited as I am about this new ‘entity’ and the way it shaped up, the title, that has already been in existence for years, feels slightly, and sadly, prophetic – although that was never my intention.”
Ghosts of Europa will be available as a 60-page hardcover 2CD artbook incl. 8-track bonus CD, ltd. Gatefold XXX vinyl LP, Gatefold black vinyl LP, and Digipak CD. Pre-orders are now live here.
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