Australian extreme metal outfit Ploughshare has announced the release of their highly anticipated new album, Second Wound, set to drop on November 8th via Brilliant Emperor Records and I, Voidhanger Records. Continuing the sonic devastation they unleashed with their 2018 debut In Offal, Salvation, Second Wound pushes the boundaries of their genre-defying approach, blending black metal, death metal, doom, and dark electronic elements into a singular and visceral experience.
The album’s lead single, “Fall of All Creatures,” premiered at Decibel Magazine, who praised the track as a “discordant, complex, and vicious-sounding blaster that sets the tone for the multi-genre approach that follows on the subsequent four tracks. Black metal, death metal, doom and dark electronic elements are swirled together in a non-stop aural hurricane.”
Lisen here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/09/18/track-premiere-ploughshare-fall-of-all-creatures/
Second Wound draws inspiration from anchoress Julian of Norwich‘s Revelations of Divine Love, a medieval book of Christian mystical devotions, making this record one of the darkest, most magmatic, and genuinely disturbing black/death metal releases to date. As the band explains, “‘Fall of All Creatures’ and the album as a whole take inspiration from the anchoress Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love, as an expression of extreme asceticism, bodily privation and religious fervour.”
Mastered by the excellent Colin Marston, Second Wound reflects Ploughshare’s collective approach to songwriting, with members working both together and individually from 2019 to 2022. The result is a bold, unorthodox sound that transcends genre conventions while maintaining a disciplined focus. Their relentless experimentation ensures that Second Wound will further cement the band’s reputation as one of the most innovative forces in the underground metal scene
