Czech Metal band ROOT have premiered a new song entitled “Moment Of Fright.” The song is off the band’s upcoming LP, Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion, out November 25th via Agonia Records. The song opens up with pounding drums and heavy guitar riffs, diving into dissonance early on and never looking back.
ROOT is one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri ‘Big Boss’ Valter. In contrast to Bathory and Venom, ROOT took the black metal genre in a more refined direction, featuring Big Boss’ chartacteristic clean vocals, dark sound and an epic approach altogether. Nowadays, ROOT is often recognized as an epic heavy/black metal act, or as the band simply puts it – a dark metal band.
ROOT had this to say about the new album, Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion, “As always in our history as a band, we aim to deliver a unique album, something that will stand out and shine its own light in our discography. Expect dark metal at its best, along with some surprising elements. We’ve recorded one fully acoustic song and one entirely instrumental. Overall, the album will include ten new tracks that will differ from our previous records.”
Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion will be ROOT’s tenth full-length album. Lyrically, it will be a concept album, and looked at from that perspective, it’ll continue the story begun by their 1996 release under a similar yet shorter title, Kärgeräs that presents a tale of a proud nation.
