– April twenty third, 2025 –
“Visions Of Stagnant Blood” EP Reissue Out Now On Steel Blade Data
Watch “Choking On The Rotten Seed” from CELESTIAL SANCTUARY HERE
UK loss of life steel goliaths CELESTIAL SANCTUARY are happy to current their video for “Choking On The Rotten Seed.” The observe comes off the band’s critically adored Visions Of Stagnant Blood EP, lately reissued by Steel Blade Data.
Picture by Jake Owens
Feedback vocalist/guitarist Thomas Cronin, “The thought behind the video was to introduce ourselves and what we’re about to individuals who haven’t heard our band but, and there’s lots of people on the market who haven’t received a fucking clue who we’re.
“Stylistically, we actually simply wished to seize that essence and feeling of discovering your new favourite band on Headbangers Ball at 2:00am. We’re not attempting to recreate any specific video or appear to be we’re of one other period, however these movies which have caught with us are largely simply the bands strolling across the city they’re from, taking part in in some skanky little room or reside footage of them doing their factor. Too many bands get caught within the entice of attempting to create some fuckin’ viral second or having one thing tremendous polished and smooth. I’ve a profession as a music video producer, so we may have simply gone and achieved one thing like that straight outta the gate. However we’re simply not about that; our music is difficult sufficient as it’s, and we’ve the perspective to go together with it. So why not let that shine for now?
“The historical past of the realm we hail from was an enormous affect on the lyrical content material on this launch,” he continues, “so for the outside pictures, we didn’t simply select the good wanting spots; every of them has a big historic and gory significance… There’s the ruins of the Abbey of St. Edmunds (now Abbey Gardens): Throughout an enormous battle in East Anglia, King Edmund was pelted with a great deal of arrows after which beheaded and discarded within the woods like a rotten sack of meat. Legend has it that his physique was discovered being guarded by a wolf. Then there was The Abbey Precinct/Graveyard, which is the place a ton of executions passed off all through the years, the place hundreds of individuals would come to observe for leisure, most notably the execution of William Corder who was responsible of the ‘Purple Barn Murders.’ It’s additionally the place the executions — or ought to I say murders — of the witches captured by Matthew Hopkins, ‘Witchfinder Common’ passed off. After which there’s the final one, Skinner Avenue. Mainly, that is the road the place the butchers within the space have been based mostly. They’d dump all of the ‘unused’ blood out onto the road, which has a little bit of an incline, so the blood would movement down this cobbled avenue and pool on the backside within the city’s jewellery quarter. So, there’s tales of individuals wading via stagnant blood and having to place up with the scent of rotten entrails. Half of us grew up on this city, and it’s all the time simply appeared so regular to us – all this gory shit that’s occurred over time.”
Watch CELESTIAL SANCTUARY‘s “Choking On The Rotten Seed” video HERE.
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY‘s Visions Of Stagnant Blood EP was initially launched independently in 2024. Distorted Sound known as it “highly effective, imposing, gory,” Steel Forces lauded a full on “bludgeoning riddled with archaic and primitive slickness and illness,” whereas Noobheavy hailed “massive, filthy loss of life steel with riffs for days.”
Visions Of Stagnant Blood is offered digitally in addition to vinyl in Rotten Scab (Purple/Inexperienced Merge). Discover orders at: metalblade.com/celestialsanctuary
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY w/ Employed To Serve, Burner:
4/21/2025 KK’s Metal Mill – Wolverhampton, GB
4/22/2025 The Cathouse – Glasgow, GB
4/23/2025 The Key Membership – Leeds, GB
4/24/2025 Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff, GB
4/25/2025 O2 Academy Islington – London, GB
5/03/2025 Incineration Fest – London, GB ^
6/06/2025 Mystic Pageant – Gdańsk, PL ^
8/01/2025 Dortmund Dying Fest – Dortmund, DE ^
8/15/2025 Reload Pageant – Sulingen, DE ^
8/16/2025 Dynamo Metalfest – Eindhoven, NL ^
8/30/2025 Doomsday Fest – Brighton, GB ^
^ – Pageant Date
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY:
Thomas Cronin – vocals, guitar
Matt Adnett – guitar
Jay Rutterford – bass
James Burke – drums
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