Wolvhammer will be unleashing their fourth studio album, The Monuments of Ash & Bone, on May 4th via Blood Music. Today the band has teamed up with Decibel to premiere the opening track off the upcoming record, and it’s six minutes of pure blackened sludge. The band adds, “We try not to plan every little detail. Keeping things fairly spontaneous in the writing/recording process is way more artistic to me than rehearsing every single part for 6 months before going into the studio. That being said, we knew we wanted to work with Jarrett [Pritchard, recording/mixing], we wanted a faster paced record, every vocal line to be as memorable as possible and to sound more like we do as a live band. I think the album opener is a pretty good outcome of those initial ideas and sums up what this band is all about. No bullshit, no shaking hands, no kissing babies, no politics. Real life, real emotion, real amps, and a real middle finger to what we feel the modern state of metal has become.”

Pre-order The Monuments of Ash & Bone here.