ALTAR OF OBLIVION - In The Cesspit Of Divine Decay

**RELEASE DATE: June 28 – 2024**

In late 2022, Altar Of Oblivion signed a deal with From the Vaults and released last
year’s “Burning Memories”-EP serving as an appetizer for their upcoming fourth
full-length. But NOTHING could foresee what was to come. “In The Cesspit Of Divine
Decay”, the new album from the Danish epic doomers, is a concept album based on
the diary of guitarist Martin Meyer Sparvath’s maternal great-grandfather Jesper
Wilhem Meyer, who reluctantly fought for the German Empire during The Great War
(1914-1918).

Preparations for this aural endeavour began in 2005, when the band tracked a demo
version of what years later would morph into the now completed album, which was
originally supposed to be the debut full-length of the early duo incarnation of the
band. This album contains some of the band’s first ever creations, and in many ways,
it can be regarded as some sort of Altar Of Oblivion-prototype, bringing forth and
spewing out their darkest and most traditional epic doom-work to date.
During and since the pandemic, Altar Of Oblivion have been in recording mode,
finishing both new and old stuff, including two full-lengths, two EPs and an acoustic
album, enabling the band to take a well-deserved studio-break in order to focus on
live shows from now on. A number of gigs have been confirmed for 2024, and the
collective is now looking forward to hitting the stage again, heavier, older and more
invigorated than ever. Time will tell if playing live is the right cure for a severe case
of discoloured studio tan.

The origins of Altar of Oblivion can be traced back to 2003, when Martin Meyer
Sparvath (guitars/vocals) and Allan Larsen (drums) formed a duo called Summoning
Sickness. Three years later, this doubtful project was transformed into a four-piece
named Altar Of Oblivion, and the entity went from playing simple black/speed/
heavy-metal to epic doom metal. The band has so far, apart from a number of demos,
EPs and a live album, three full-lengths under its belt

Tracklisting:
1. Nothing Grows From Hallowed Ground
2. The Fallacy
3. Ghosts In The Trenches
4. Mark Of The Dead
5. Altar Of Oblivion
6. The Night They Came
7. Silent Pain
8. Damnation
9. In The Cesspit Of Divine Decay
10. Wind Among Waves