02/21/2012 21:01

HeXeN

HeXeN: 'Being and Nothingness'

Los Angeles thrashers HeXeN have officially revealed their upcoming second album, titled 'Being and Nothingness'. The album will come out on Pulverised Records, but the release date hasn't been announced as yet.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Vivid Tone Recording Studio (Lividity, Guthrie Govan, etc.) by producer Rich Bruce, the sonic onslaught of 'Being and Nothingness' sees the band going toward a far more mature, comprehensive, and thorough voyage of metal musicality, thus distancing themselves from being just another run-of-the-mill revival band.

To perfectly compliment the visual aspects of 'Being and Nothingness', HeXeN has engaged the hand-painted mastery of celebrated extreme metal illustrator Kristian Wåhlin / Necrolord (King Diamond, Dissection, Emperor, etc.) for the album artwork cover.

The album will contain nine tracks of progressive thrash proficiency, closing with an epic 8-part suite:

1) Macrocosm
2) Grave New World
3) Defcon Rising
4) Private Hell
5) Walk as Many, Stand as One
6) Stream of Unconsciousness
7) Indefinite Archetype
8) The Nescient
9) Nocturne -
i. Opus 55 1 in Fmin
ii. Out of Reach
iii. Existential Crisis
iv. Entrance of the Absurd
v. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
vi. With Salvation I Persist
vii. Elegy of the Night
viii. End in Purplexity

The band comments: "We are completely stoked for this long worked on; long awaited second release and we cant wait to showcase this opus live to all our fans. Unlearn what you have learned about metal!"

(source: Pulverised Records)