Mord’A’Stigmata release Hope, a follow-up to 2013’s critically acclaimed Ansia album on 17th February 2017 through Pagan Records.
Originating from Poland’s ever-blooming black metal underground in 2004 and helmed by guitarist, composer and main visionary, Static, the band has maintained a reasonable distance from the main routes extreme music has followed, forming its identity year by year.
Recorded at Studio 67 and featuring cover artwork by Bartek Rogalewicz, Hope will be available on CD, LP and digital download, the music itself divided into four chapters that are intended to convey a landscape of deep melancholy adorned with sparks of light.
“I once said Ansia was so personal that I needed time to take some rest from the whole experience. I needed distance and the clearing of thoughts before I hit the new ideas,” recalled vocalist/guitarist Static. “Back then, I couldn’t even imagine the circumstances under which the music and words for the fourth major Mord’A’Stigmata release will be written. I was given a choice: either to go for an extreme emotional exposure or wait another two or three years for the works to commence. The creative hunger prevailed and so did the weird need of reopening the wounds, hoping that things would someday be as they used to.”
Static further stated that musically there are changes to their sound to be found on Hope.
“This is what this record is about. It is hard for me to call the music on Hope black metal. Anyway, I get the impression that the term is frequently abused and given a wrong meaning nowadays. As usual, we came up with a mixture of styles to be named by people wiser than us. We play more with hearts than with heads and do not intend to play someone we are not. And that’s actually what “Hope” is, the music of pure emotions.”
