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Jointhugger Set Halloween Release for Surrounded by Vultures; New Song Posted

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Restored to trio status after bringing Adam Suleiman (also Saint Karloff) into their ranks, Norwegian crushers Jointhugger have announced they’ll break with Friday-release convention in order to put out their second long-player, Surrounded by Vultures, on Halloween, Sunday, Oct. 31. The new album follows behind earlier-2021’s single-song EP, Reaper Season (review here), and 2020’s impressive debut, I Am No One (review here), and will be their sophomore outing through Majestic Mountain Records, which also stood behind the EP in April. Preorders are up now if you’re the type to take care of that early. It’s payday after all.

There’s a song up now called “Midnight” and it’s streaming at the bottom of this post — you’ll also see Reaper Season down there — and I’d love to wax poetic about its heaviness and how well it bodes for the record to come, but frankly where I’m writing from right now there’s a lot of drilling happening so it’s going to have to wait until I’m next in the car. Life. Sometimes it involves light construction.

Still, the PR wire:

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Nordic Doom Giants JOINTHUGGER Announce Second Release of the Year with SURROUNDED BY VULTURES

Surrounded by Vultures, the brand-new album by Jointhugger is released Sunday 31st October 2021 on Majestic Mountain Records

Having first come to the attention of Majestic Mountain Records following the release of their debut, I Am No One in 2020, an unhallowed union was quickly established to herald the arrival of not one, but two new records in 2021. The first, a sublime one-track EP – Reaper Season – was released to high praise earlier in the year, foreshadowing the arrival of their latest and most lethal entry into the annals of Nordic Doom; Surrounded by Vultures.

“Surrounded by Vultures is the second instalment in a trilogy of albums connected by correlating titles, united by their opening tracks,” explains Nico. “It’s a chronicle of Jointhugger’s journey as a band over the last ten years and our lives as people.”

Now counting drummer, Adam Suleiman (Saint Karloff), among its ranks, the band recorded the album live before handing over mixing and mastering duties to Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio. Featuring a curated selection of old and new tracks that offer a candid glimpse into the inner world of Jointhugger, ‘Midnight’; the first sprawling and cinematic single from the record reflects deeply on the chaos of existence and creation. Drawing a crushing heaviness and doom rock assault that lays waste to the turbulence of dominion.

Pre-order Surrounded by Vultures, the brand-new album by Jointhugger with Majestic Mountain Records here: https://majesticmountainrecords.bigcartel.com/

Official release on Sunday 31st October 2021.

TRACK LISTING:
1. In Dire Need of Fire Ch. 2
2. Midnight
3. Empty Space
4. Delysid Rex
5. The Calm

Surrounded By Vultures and was recorded live at Stone Bone Cross Studios in Norway in January 2021.
Produced by Nico Munkvold and Hrafn Helgason.
Mixed and Mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio.
All music by Nico Munkvold.

Jointhugger:
Nico Munkvold: Guitar/vocals
Tore Pedersen: Bass
Adam Suleiman: Drums

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Jointhugger, “Midnight”

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