HECATE ENTHRONED returns with single 'Gallery Of Rotting Portraits'
10-02-2026
British symphonic black metallers HECATE ENTHRONED return seven years since the release of the group’s last album with a new, vicious single, “Gallery Of Rotting Portraits”. The official lyric video (created by Jack Maguire from artwork by Erskine Designs)— is now released. The song is a precursor of the album ‘The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried’, out on M-Theory Audio on May on May 28, 2026.
Watch “Gallery Of Rotting Portraits” below.
“The single takes its name from the morbid preservation of the peat bogs, where bodies like the Lindow Man have rested for centuries,” explains HECATE ENTHRONED bassist Dylan Hughes. “‘A Gallery Of Rotting Portraits’ uses these ‘pagan sacrifices’ as a metaphor for obsolete devotion. It captures the jarring disconnect of unearthing a ritualized past only to find it stripped of its power. The song confronts the cold reality that while the bodies remain, the spirits and superstitions that put them there have long since rotted away, leaving us in a world devoid of its ancient magic.”
“Gallery Of Rotting Portraits” gives us the first glimpse of the much-anticipated new HECATE ENTHRONED album “The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried”, to be released May 29 on digipak CD, limited-edition colored vinyl, including 250 Boreal Light (EU) and 250 Draconic Vision (US) variants, and digital. A pre-order package is also available with exclusive merch design.
“The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried” is once again produced by HECATE ENTHRONED and Dan Abela (AKERCOCKE, BLEED FROM WITHIN, ANAAL NATHRAKH), who also mixed/mastered the album with cover art created by Erskine Designs (INANIMATE EXISTENCE, BLEED THE SKY).
HECATE ENTHRONED is:
Joe Stamps – Vocals
Nige Dennan – guitar
Andy Milnes – guitar
Dylan Hughes – bass
Pete White – piano/keyboards
Matt Holmes – drums
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