"Selling Yourself To Die", the third single from Xasthur's upcoming full length offering Disharmonic Variations (out on July 5th), has surfaced online.

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Disharmonic Variations is the new dark American folk album by Xasthur, ready to land in stores on July 5th, 2024 through Prophecy Productions. Details and first single, "Messenger Of Your Reflection", can be checked out below.

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Xasthur unveil the next sinister single, "A Future To Fear II", from oncoming double-album Inevitably Dark, which comes out on June 23, 2023 through Prophecy Productions.

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Xasthur reveal a visualizer video for the second advance single, "Euphoric Bad Trip", off the forthcoming double-album Inevitably Dark, slated for release on June 23, 2023.

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Xasthur have revealed a video clip of the title track and first single, taken from the forthcoming double-album Inevitably Dark, which is slated for release on June 23, 2023 through Prophecy Productions.

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Xasthur premiere a music video for the newest single, "Home Is Nowhere", off the upcoming acid folk album Victims Of The Times. The latter will hit the streets on July 9 as 2LP and 2CD hardcover book.

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Xasthur, American acoustic dark folk project, announce the release of a new studio album Victims Of The Times. Due out on July 9 2021 via Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge, it's comprised of 22 songs. A lyric video of the title track, as the first official single, is now streaming down under.

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Prophecy Productions has announced its partnership with American black metallers Xasthur. From the very beginning, Xasthur has "left a deep impact on the US black metal scene and evolved into becoming one of the genre's most notorious and mysterious acts." In the pursuit of bringing their sound to new audiences, Xasthur's signing with Prophecy Productions' ever-expanding roster is the next logical step. Prophecy will launch this partnership with a new, limited edition EP that functions as an exclusive preview of Xasthur's upcoming full length. The EP, Aestas Pretium MXVIII, will be sold exclusively on the forthcoming, extensive US tour - 30 dates, starting on July 21st, accompanying Six Organs of Admittance and Wino.

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After the band split, Xasthur return with a follow-up to their last album Portal Of Sorrow now arriving. Titled Subject To Change, fans can now order the new record digipak CD at this location. Subject To Change features 12 brand new songs, two vocalists, acoustic, and "depressive lyrics and music".

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Malefic, frontman of black metal band Xasthur, announced that Portal of Sorrow is the title of the eighth album. This album will also be the last album that is released under the Xasthur moniker. The Xasthur blog reads:

"This album, Portal of Sorrow, is the last Xasthur album, period. The honorable thing to do is to end the band and not hang around too long, like so many metal/black metal bands do. Enough is enough, right?

I'm not able to make it work anymore. I don't want to turn into one of those bands who rely on too many guests and session musicians to make people interested in their music again. Some help is fine but more than some help is very cheap and it becomes others, not the roots of the band that makes the difference and the music work. I don't want to fall into that pattern. The motivation and inspiration used to be there full time and now it's not there at all, not for doing Xasthur at least. It is a roll or persona that I have simply outgrown. I've been saying I'm sick and tired of it all for too long... and now, I'm going to back it up. There are or have been literally 18,000 black metal bands; it does not matter if there's one less.

Just like in the nineties, I made a few recent attempts to put a real line-up together and it still failed; another sign that said "give it up already".

However, I wanted to end on a better note with this 'Portal of Sorrow' album because the album that came before it, 'All reflections drained', was not up to par and I couldn't finish up with an album that I was less than satisfied with. Now, I suppose any or all goals have been reached and there is nothing more I wish to try with Xasthur and it's time to move on...

Since it would be foolish to give up music all together, I have something else to fall back on that is beginning to take shape. It's a new beginning that I'm quite excited about.

Instead, I'm going to do something different by not performing any kind of metal at all! There's no use in trying to reinvent black metal or turn it upside down, it's all been done and in the end, it's still metal and will remain within those circles, stereotypes and boundaries no matter what. Overall, I need a bigger change in my life and with music than just trying to change metal. There isn't anything to lose.

I would ask you to stay tuned for my next project and give it a plug but there's no need to. It's probably of no interest to you and again, it has nothing to do with metal and I'm not trying to keep any connection or ties to it. I will not name influences, genres or anything of the sort.

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