For over 20 years Blutgott has combined brutal metal and dark fantasy, with over 20 albums and more than 40 CDs bearing the group name, alongside its own miniatures, tabletop wargame, art books, and more.
This year sees the beginning of a major extension to the World of Blood Gods – populated by demonic vampire dragons, humans, elves, and dwarves – and it commences with Death Of The Bloodking, not only a new album but the first part of a trilogy bearing the overall epic title The Battle For Knochenheim.
Death Of The Bloodking will be released on 30th October 30, as a 2CD digipack, recorded by Dennis Ward (Helloween, Krokus, Unisonic) courtesy of Metalville Records and will feature artwork painted by Blutgott founderThomas Gurrath. The album will be preceded by 10 digital singles and videos.
The storyline would have it that there’s to be a cataclysmic final battle between Balgeroth, the Bloodking of Knochenheim, and Luziferon, the most powerful of all demon overlords of Hell. A war whose flames engulf hundreds of thousands of worlds – from Eden to the world of the Nazarene himself.
In the War of Balgeroth, the fascist Imperium of mankind is destroyed. Asgard falls, the godly realms of Valhalla are desecrated and ravaged in apocalyptic battles. But the greatest and most cruel battle of all time rages around Knochenheim. The fortress metropolis on the largest stable route from Hell to Eden. Knochenheim – a monument of horror, the dragon fortress, an unshakeable bulwark of the Blood Gods against the eternal hordes of damnation. There, the demon hordes of Luziferon meet the legions of the Trinity of Blood Gods.
Blutgott not only deliver their music as dark fantasy, the metal act also uses differing personas to define sub-genres: Debauchery applies death metal, Blood God heavy metal, and Balgeroth specifically German metal.
The Balgeroth version of Blutgott’s ‘Das Erbe Des Balgeroth’ was the first of those 10 singles, then came the Balgeroth version of ‘Der Blutgott Regiert In Diesem Land’, and most recently the Debauchery version of ‘Death Of The Bloodking’.
