[Cover photo credit to Anne Swallow]

Bavarian Heavy Music band Dark Fortress ended after releasing their final album, Spectres from the Old World, in 2020. However, their European live tour in 2023 was captured for a live album that will be released via Century Media Records. It will, appropriately, be called Anthems From Beyond The Grave – Live In Europe 2023, and arrive on January 17th, 2025.

A live video of “Pulling At Threads (Live in Europe 2023)” has been released from that tour.

V. Santura (guitars) says:

I never thought DARK FORTRESS would have a live album. The technical situation–we had multi-track recordings of two shows [Rotterdam and Bochum]–allowed for ‘Anthems from Beyond the Grave’ to happen. I didn’t even listen to the recordings for months after the tour. When I finally did, I thought, ‘Holy shit!’ We sounded incredible, and I’m hardly ever happy with our shows. All of our hard work had finally fallen into place on that tour. When Century Media heard it, they said, ‘We’re gotta release it–it’s too good not to’! If this is our end and it definitely is, then it’s a fitting end to DARK FORTRESS.

The album comes with the following tracklist:
CD:

1. Intro
2. CataWomb
3. The Silver Gate
4. Isa
5. Pulling At Threads
6. Crimson Tears
7. Cohorror
8. Self Mutilation
9. Chrysalis
10. Ylem
11. Insomnia
12. Evenfall
13. Baphomet

2LP/Digital Album:

1. Intro
2. CataWomb
3. The Silver Gate
4. Isa
5. Pulling At Threads
6. Crimson Tears
7. Cohorror
8. Self Mutilation
9. Chrysalis
10. To Harvest The Artefacts Of Mockery
11. Ylem
12. Insomnia
13. Evenfall
14. Baphomet
    15.Sycamore Trees (Outro)