The prospect of a new full-length from Devon doomers The Wounded Kings lurks on the horizon like a dark spot at sunset, just reminding ever so slightly of the horrors to come. This will be the persistently-nebulous outfit’s fifth full-length overall and their second for Candlelight Records behind last year’s chills-up-the-spine creeper Consolamentum, which was as much the end of an era as it was the beginning of one, as it turns out. Always pretty fluid in their lineup around founding guitarist Steve Mills, The Wounded Kings welcomed original vocalist George Birch back into the band, and the forthcoming Visions in Bone will serve as Birch‘s first record with them since 2010’s The Shadow over Atlantis.