Hell Militia Hollow Void

HELL MILITIA have released a brand new song!.

The new song, titled Lifeless Light, is taken from the French black metal band’s long-awaited new album, Hollow Void (the follow-up to 2012’s Jacob’s Ladder), which is scheduled to be released later this month, via Season Of Mist Underground Activists.

For the new album, the band entered Studio Saint-Loup outside of Paris in the fall of 2020 to lay down drums. Additional instruments, vocals, and mix and mastering were conducted with producer/engineer BST at BST Studios through the summer and fall of 2021. According to vocalist RSDX, the tumult of recent years, the pandemic and real life’s comings-and-goings were perfect ammunition for the new album’s creation.

“The whole recording process took longer than expected, but as life took its turn straight up until the vocal recordings, the timing was exactly what it needed to be,” he says “A lot of these experiences were included in the lyrics, giving an honest reflection of what was going on. Bitter days, unshakable religious faith, death, contempt for life, urban filth and an even more bitter aftertaste turned into the toxic cocktail we called Hollow Void. Still, the pent-up energy increased to a point it just had to explode. We put all that energy back into the album. Now that everything is recorded, we await the date we can unleash this on this world. We will keep the energy at this level until it’s time we can perform it.”

Speaking about the new song, the band says, “this was the first song written in the process and it’s true-to-form, punch-in-the-face energy made this the opening track of Hollow Void by default. This song sets the tone for the rest of the album, and lyrically it is a manic outburst of contempt for life.”

1. Lifeless Light
2. Genesis Undone
3. Dust of Time
4. Within the Maze
5. Hollow Void
6. The Highest Fall
7. Kingdoms Scorched
8. Veneration
9. Corruption Rejoice