Hecate Enthroned – ‘Embrace of the Godless Aeon’ CD

Maintaining a career spanning more than twenty years in the underground, England’s powerful Hecate Enthroned return in the winter of 2019 with ‘Embrace of the Godless Aeon,’ their sixth studio album and first in five years.

‘Embrace of the Godless Aeon’ comes at an interesting time. Consider that the ultimate commercialization of the Symphonic Black Metal that Hecate Enthroned have played and helped shape since day one, after the mid-2000s, has led to a resurgence in orthodox Satanic Black Metal, the rise of suicidal/depressive Black Metal, as well as the growth of Black Metal influenced bands with themes of Nature or esoteric mysticism.

That Hecate Enthroned have steadfastly ignored rising and falling trends and kept their own faith is an admirable trait. While their sound does borrow heavily from the era out of which they were birthed, they have honed their compositions with such detail and focus, practising exclusion with respect to cyclical trends in Metal.

‘Embrace of the Godless Aeon’ sees a band that does not overwork itself, producing a strong piece of art that should propel Hecate Enthroned deeper into the minds of underground connoisseurs everywhere.