A paean to evil incarnate and enflamed. If 2024’s Oracular Hexations invoked a “looming Damoclean dread” as I wrote in my premiere for “Winged Ouroboros Mutating Unto Gold,” then “Emblazoned Upon Ebony Winds,” the first single from Diabolic Oath‘s forthcoming EP Unholy Barbaric Hymns, is what happens when the hovering sword misses the neck of the imperiled tyrant and instead wreaks further havoc on a world in constant chaos and daily disarray. Unholy Barbaric Hymns, out June 5th via Sentient Ruin, is thus a burning baptism, with ebony winds ablaze and Mars radiant in his rust-red war glory. It is 23 minutes of a … Continue reading Exclusive Track Premiere: Diabolic Oath’s “Emblazoned Upon Ebony Winds”