– April twenty third, 2025 –
“Visions Of Stagnant Blood” EP Reissue Out Now On Steel Blade Information
Watch “Choking On The Rotten Seed” from CELESTIAL SANCTUARY HERE
UK dying metallic goliaths CELESTIAL SANCTUARY are happy to current their video for “Choking On The Rotten Seed.” The monitor comes off the band’s critically adored Visions Of Stagnant Blood EP, just lately reissued by Steel Blade Information.
Photograph by Jake Owens
Feedback vocalist/guitarist Thomas Cronin, “The thought behind the video was to introduce ourselves and what we’re about to individuals who haven’t heard our band but, and there’s lots of people on the market who haven’t received a fucking clue who we’re.
“Stylistically, we actually simply wished to seize that essence and feeling of discovering your new favourite band on Headbangers Ball at 2:00am. We’re not attempting to recreate any specific video or appear to be we’re of one other period, however these movies which have caught with us are principally simply the bands strolling across the city they’re from, taking part in in some skanky little room or reside footage of them doing their factor. Too many bands get caught within the entice of attempting to create some fuckin’ viral second or having one thing tremendous polished and glossy. I’ve a profession as a music video producer, so we might have simply gone and executed one thing like that straight outta the gate. However we’re simply not about that; our music is tough sufficient as it’s, and we have now the angle to go along with it. So why not let that shine for now?
“The historical past of the world we hail from was a giant affect on the lyrical content material on this launch,” he continues, “so for the outside photographs, we didn’t simply select the good wanting spots; every of them has a big historic and gory significance… There’s the ruins of the Abbey of St. Edmunds (now Abbey Gardens): Throughout a giant battle in East Anglia, King Edmund was pelted with a great deal of arrows after which beheaded and discarded within the woods like a rotten sack of meat. Legend has it that his physique was discovered being guarded by a wolf. Then there was The Abbey Precinct/Graveyard, which is the place a ton of executions passed off all through the years, the place 1000’s of individuals would come to observe for leisure, most notably the execution of William Corder who was responsible of the ‘Pink Barn Murders.’ It’s additionally the place the executions — or ought to I say murders — of the witches captured by Matthew Hopkins, ‘Witchfinder Basic’ passed off. After which there’s the final one, Skinner Avenue. Mainly, that is the road the place the butchers within the space have been primarily based. They’d dump all of the ‘unused’ blood out onto the road, which has a little bit of an incline, so the blood would stream down this cobbled road and pool on the backside within the city’s jewellery quarter. So, there’s tales of individuals wading via stagnant blood and having to place up with the odor of rotten entrails. Half of us grew up on this city, and it’s all the time simply appeared so regular to us – all this gory shit that’s occurred through the years.”
Watch CELESTIAL SANCTUARY‘s “Choking On The Rotten Seed” video HERE.
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY‘s Visions Of Stagnant Blood EP was initially launched independently in 2024. Distorted Sound known as it “highly effective, imposing, gory,” Steel Forces lauded a full on “bludgeoning riddled with archaic and primitive slickness and illness,” whereas Noobheavy hailed “large, filthy dying metallic with riffs for days.”
Visions Of Stagnant Blood is obtainable digitally in addition to vinyl in Rotten Scab (Pink/Inexperienced Merge). Discover orders at: metalblade.com/celestialsanctuary
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY w/ Employed To Serve, Burner:
4/21/2025 KK’s Metal Mill – Wolverhampton, GB
4/22/2025 The Cathouse – Glasgow, GB
4/23/2025 The Key Membership – Leeds, GB
4/24/2025 Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff, GB
4/25/2025 O2 Academy Islington – London, GB
5/03/2025 Incineration Fest – London, GB ^
6/06/2025 Mystic Pageant – Gdańsk, PL ^
8/01/2025 Dortmund Dying Fest – Dortmund, DE ^
8/15/2025 Reload Pageant – Sulingen, DE ^
8/16/2025 Dynamo Metalfest – Eindhoven, NL ^
8/30/2025 Doomsday Fest – Brighton, GB ^
^ – Pageant Date
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY:
Thomas Cronin – vocals, guitar
Matt Adnett – guitar
Jay Rutterford – bass
James Burke – drums
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