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NEW ALBUM HOSPODI OUT JULY 12 VIA METAL BLADE RECORDS

The band will release its sophomore album Hospodi through Metal Blade Records tomorrow, July 12. The album is available for pre-order here, here, and here.

Batushka have just unleashed the fourth track from the album over at Metal Injection. Watch and listen to “Utrenia” here or here.

The band previously shared videos for:
“Polunosznica”
“Wieczernia”
“Liturgiya”

Live performances will be announced shortly.

Named after an Old Church Slavonic word for “God,” Hospodi enhances all the unique qualities that made the band such an instant phenomenon, while offering an entirely distinct and fresh sensory experience. The album boasts the most ferocious and bewitching songs the band has penned to date — along with a newfound sense of rock swagger.

“The whole album is a concept based on the Liturgy of Death, the prayers for the dead, and Orthodox funeral rites and dirges,” said the band. “It’s all about a ritual that involves the dead and the mourners. We also used a lot of old folk songs and elegies from our homeland. These are sung during the wake, around the casket, in the deceased person’s home. Nowadays, only a few older people know them and still sing them accordingly in our region. We decided to cherish that tradition and I’m glad that with our album these songs and rites will survive.”