Sortilegia, by LA MUERTE

Sortilegia

by LA MUERTE

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1.	Sortilegia 05:29	buy track
2.	No Fear 04:33	buy track
3.	Kiss My Fist 03:14	buy track
4.	Snake In My Hand 03:33	buy track
5.	Brother Satan 04:06	buy track
6.	Pontiac Firebird 04:25	buy track
7.	Monster 04:23	buy track
8.	Blood On The Moon 03:13	buy track
9.	Dust.You Will Return 03:34	buy track
10.	Keep Your Secret 06:21	buy track
11.	Longue Misere 06:32	buy track

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Four years after their unanimously acclaimed self-titled album, cult Belgium metalheads, LA MUERTE, continue to push their boundaries with SORTILEGIA. The album is again produced by LA MUERTE and Déhà (Wolvennest, Mongolito...).

Following the words of Didier Moins aka Dee-J, the time passed and allowed all the members to grow together, as a band: “Nothing is calculated with us…” – says Didier “Even if the music evolutes, or explores different paths, the spirit, and the vision remain the same. We are still rough and edgy as ever. It is still impossible to categorize or explain exactly what we do. In this album, we still find the ingredients, but also the ethics, that make La Muerte so peculiar and radical”.

"Sortilegia"? A scorching soundtrack to the Apocalypse. La Muerte returns to battle with an even more intense, massive, and cohesive burner than their 2018 self-titled album. Once, in response to a journalistic question, Dee-J and Marc du Marais called their work "morbid surrealism," which defined their intentions better than any other label. But if you really have to categorize, why not: "Borderline Rock": always pushing the blade a bit deeper, and keeping it sharp. In the band's cauldron, a decapitating mixture of psychedelic, metallic and noisy sounds still simmering. La Muerte has lost none of its raw and fierce radicalism.

BIO:
Founded in Brussels in 1984, La Muerte’s mythical reign over the Belgian Underground came to a grinding halt in 1994. Yet across those years and in the archives/subversive litanies of revered cult heroes, comparisons, wherever La Muerte was concerned, would fluctuate riotously. Almost as wildly in fact as the music they produced; from i-D to Sounds, Melody Maker to NME, La Muerte became best-known for peddling alternative metal and discordant noise, like an inebriated midnight melee between Motörhead, Velvet Underground, The Birthday Party, and Butthole Surfers. Their cult status was born.

In March 2015, La Muerte, the most controversial band Belgium ever had, made a surprising and hugely successful return with a sold-out show the Brussels Ancienne Belgique. “The missing link between Salvador Dali and The Stooges” re-emerged with founding members Marc du Marais and Dee-J, and were joined onstage by a razor-sharp intake of new blood in Michel Kirby (Arkangel, Wolvennest, Length of Time), Christian Z. (Length of Time) and Tino de Martino (Channel Zero).

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released November 25, 2022

Recorded at Noise Factory by Dee-J
assisted by Michel Kirby and Gerald Jans

Vocals and additional instrumentation recorded
at Forbidden Frequencies Studio by Déhà

Additional instruments recorded by Dee-J at Planet K

All songs performed by La Muerte

Additional instruments and sounds by Déhà
Guest vocals on Kiss My Fist by Ross Demon
courtesy of Length of Time
and on Monster by Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock
courtesy of Fleur de Feu

Mixed by Déhà at Forbidden Frequencies Studio
Mastered by Jens Larsson at Larsson Mastering

PRODUCED BY DEHA and LA MUERTE

Artwork concept by Fabrice Lavollay

Band picture by Lightbox-Revelation

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LA MUERTE Brussels, Belgium

Precursors and inventors. Hated, despised and sometimes, adulated.
“Conjuring extreme, horrifying images of death, addiction, the road and urban violence glued to putrid rock ‘n’ roll and manic-depressive bluesrock, ..."

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