Recently death metallers Unleashed announced that they have finished recording to the follow up to 2012’s Odalheim. Stating that the new album, Dawn Of The Nine would remain in the same theme as Odalheim. The album before Odalheim, As Yggdrasil Trembles symbolized the arrival of Ragnarok. In the traditional Norse mythology when the tree trembled the apocalypse would occur, after that three years of winter and then we arrive at Odalheim.

The album comes exactly after final track “The Great Battle Of Odalheim“, shown from the artwork (created by the legendary Par Olofsson) we can see that the lands of Uppsala has now been ravaged, where stands a lone rune among the wreckages of churches and burnt effigy’s.

Johnny Hedlund states :

The battle took place at Uppsala fields in Sweden, and you can clearly see the ‘kings graves’ at the cover artwork, which is present at Uppsala also in the future. You can also see the bombed out church in the far distance. Then, of course, you see the place of Blot in the front and the rune stone with the runic symbol of courage of the new dawn.”

If ever there was a more metal story line I’ve yet to hear of it. Sure to be one to look out for check out the album artwork and track listing is as follows :

01 A New Day Will Rise

02 They Came To Die

03 Defenders Of Midgard

04 Where Is Your God Now?

05 The Bolt Thrower

06 Let The Hammer Fly

07 Where Churches Once Burned 

08 Land Of The Thousand Lakes 

09 Dawn Of The Nine

10 Welcome Son Of Thor! 

Dawn Of The Nine is scheduled for an April 24th release via Nuclear Blast Records.