[Cover photo credit to Vagus Nox]

French Black Metal band Merrimack have been sharing their gospel since 1995, playing festivals like Hellfest, touring Europe with Mayhem and the US with Marduk. Now they have announced their sixth album, Of Grace and Gravity, which they say “descends even deeper into the netherworld.”

First single and video “Sulphurean Synods” is a “dark yet cosmic journey”, according to the band. Merrimack’s message “exposes the futility of believing in even occult ministries.”

Merrimack comments:

‘Of Grace and Gravity’ represents the two opposing forces crossing where the spine of the world emerges. One strives to reach grace, the divine particle, while bounded by gravity and the weight of time. We have devoted ourselves to emphasize a more natural and authentic expression of our art, in its primitive form.