Black metal legends Immortal has finished work on their next album, meaning we will get to hear their follow up to 2023’s War Against All sometime in the near future. We know that’s the case because Immortal guitarist and vocalist Demonaz Doom Occulta shared an update on the new record.
“Greetings, hordes! The writing of the next Immortal album is finished. The new material follows our steady path of fast riff-powered Blashyrkh metal. More news will follow!”
Immortal has been a reunited unit since 2007, though their status fluctuated multiple times in the years since. Originally they got back together after falling apart in 2003 in order to play a series of summer festival shows, including Inferno Festival, Tuska Open Air, and Wacken Open Air. They even played a couple U.S. shows at the time before traveling to Australia and New Zealand for some shows there.
Following that run of dates, the band decided to continue on in a much more permanent way, while work began on All Shall Fall. Things eventually fell apart around 2015 when in-fighting caused a legal battle over the band’s name. That same year, Abbath quit the band to go start his solo work, with the remaining members staying to put out Northern Chaos Gods in 2018. At that point, Demonaz had returned as the band’s vocalist and guitarist, while Peter Tägtgren handled the bass.
A couple years later in 2020, the band once again had a fight over who had the rights to the name, this time it was between Demonaz and Horgh — the latter of which was challenging the former over whether they secured the trademark to the Immortal name or not. Two years later though, Demonaz was listed as the sole member of the band when they announced War Against All.
So yeah, who knows who’s on the band at this point to put out a new record. We’ll find out in due time, of course, but it’s a question worth asking at this juncture.