ARMNATT: Premiere Second Track From The  Highly Anticipated Fourth Album

Portuguese antagonists Armnatt premiered the second track, “Wilderness Domain”, from the band’s highly anticipated fourth album, Immortal Nature, set for international release on 26th August via Signal Rex on CD and cassette tape formats; the vinyl LP version will follow later this year. Hear Armnatt‘s “Wilderness Domain” in its entirety exclusively on Transmissions from the Dark Youtube Channel.

Formed in days and times too clandestine to recall, Armnatt quickly became a touchstone for Portugal’s still-ascendant/descendent raw black metal scene. With their first split coming courtesy of the well-respected Black Gangrene in 2013 and then their debut album, Darkness Times, arriving a year later courtesy of the equally respected Altare, Armnatt’s cachet was confirmed. And for a good reason: the misty-yet-hateful surge the trio conjure speaks of a sincerely held (and authentically created) understanding of black metal’s epochal second wave.

In 2020, Armnatt made a blood pact with Signal Rex, which resulted in their second album, Dense Fog, and a long-overdue reissue of Darkness Times. Considering Signal Rex‘s position as Portugal’s premier dispensary of dark & lawless goods, the alignment was fortuitous, to say the least. In June 2021, another full-length assault on the meek and modest: Eternal Flame.

Dependable, intractable, Armnatt’s fourth album, Immortal Nature, arrives a year later. With yet another simple-yet-elegant title serving as a rallying cry, Immortal Nature bursts and bubbles with that ever-studious primitivism that only Armnatt can deliver. If Eternal Flame saw Armnatt sticking to their guns – no progression, no development, no compromise, no way – indeed Immortal Nature will disappoint you or even offend you. It’s another (HYPNOTIC) spell of destruction, but one that subtly reveals new twists; whether it’s a strangely hummable segment otherwise at odds with “black metal” or more (very relatively) variety of tempos employed or even a scuzzier, more muscular guitar tone, it all still sounds like Armnatt. Immortal Nature’s familiarity is almost deceptive, as if, in fact, a lost relic unearthed from a Bergen bunker decades later: to overstate the obvious, this literally searing simplicity of design can be replicated endlessly but never faked.

And to add further overstatement, black metal never needed to develop because it was perfect early on. Dependably, intractably, Armnatt resists change and the ever-shifting sands of “good taste” and paints their own Dorian Gray with Immortal Nature.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows.

PRE-ORDER: https://armnatt.bandcamp.com/album/immortal-nature

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